deeplinking.md

Deeplinking based on text fragments

Apparently one can deeplink to (and highlight) random text on a HTML page like this:

https://www.freebsd.org/#:~:text=A%20large%20community

Works e.g., in Chrome. How is this called, when was it introduced, where does it work?

It's called Scroll-to-Text Fragment. The complete syntax is:

:~:text=[prefix-,]textStart[,textEnd][,-suffix]

         context  |-------match-----|  context

Currently it's only available in Chromium browsers.