How to Bookmark Specific Text on a Website
Chrome: I always appreciate a good anchor link – one that you can click to navigate to a different part of the same webpage you are viewing. However, Google is now beating this classic navigation element with a new extension that allows you to create hyperlinks to specific text on a website.
In other words, you can create your own custom kind of anchor links – a useful feature if the site you are visiting does not use them. Bookmark exactly the portion of the 30-page walkthrough of the game that you walk through so you can come back to it later, or jot down that portion of the tutorial with a setting you always forget: the possibilities are endless and Google’s implementation is simple enough for everyone.
To get started, you need to go to the Chrome Web Store and install the Link to Text Fragment extension , which should work in Chrome or Edge Chromium if you prefer the latter . Once you do this, you will see an icon next to all of your other extensions. Don’t worry about it yet.
Instead, open the website you want to bookmark and find the text you want to navigate to every time you click on the specified bookmark or link. Once there, select the text with your mouse, right-click and select “Copy Link To Selected Text.”
You are now ready to save it by creating a bookmark. Unfortunately, there is no way to create a direct bookmark for the specified text; instead, you’ll have to do it the old fashioned way. Bookmark the page you are viewing ( CTRL + D in Chrome). Save it somewhere to find it in the bookmark toolbar, then right-click it to edit. Paste the provided website URL with the special link you just copied and then click Save.
Now, whenever you click on that bookmark, you go straight to the specific text that you previously highlighted. It couldn’t be easier if you can’t create a bookmark from text, instead of relying on the somewhat cumbersome editing method described above.
The links you create will work in any Chromium-based browser, so if you know your friend is using Chrome, uncheck the link you created and they’ll go straight to the text you want to highlight – no extension required on their part.