Intent-to-prototype: Text fragments

[Jan-Niklas Jäschke]

Summary:

  Scroll to Text Fragments allows users to create links to arbitrary sections of a web page by adding a text fragment with the defined syntax `#:~:text=[prefix-]start[,end][,-suffix]`.

  

Meta Bug:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753933 

Spec:

  https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/ 

Standards Body:

  W3C

Platform Coverage:

  all

Preference:

  dom.text_fragments.enabled

DevTools bug:

  n/a

Standards-position:

  https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/194 

Other browsers:

  Blink: Shipped

  WebKit: Shipped

Web-Platform tests:

  https://wpt.fyi/results/scroll-to-text-fragment/ 

— Jan

[Calixte Denizet]

Is it something we want to consider for pdfs too ?

For example we already supports partially the syntax described in:

https://pdfobject.com/pdf/pdf_open_parameters_acro8.pdf

For example:

https://www.africau.edu/images/default/sample.pdf#search=demonstration

Calixte

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