How do I link to a specific line of text on a page using only a URL?

Question

I am curious if there is a way to use only a URL to send to someone on a specific line on a given page. Citebite does this, however, it refers to a cached page instead of a real live page. http://citebite.com/

You can also do something similar with a PDF file, where you point it to page #: Link to page 6 in the pdf list. http://mises.org/journals/scholar/long.pdf#page=6

I have done a lot, and all I find is embedding the link in HTML, which is not what I need. Ideally, I would just like to send a URL that jumps to a specific line of text / selects it (just like Citebite, but without using Citebite).

Answer 1

Depends on the situation:

1- Your own content

a. Just add the href id and then send a link to it ( http://exmaple.com/document.php#myLine )

b. . For a more advanced solution, you can go to a specific area and select it using javascript, basically you call something like this: http://example.com/document.php?scrollX=100&scrollY=230

and in your PHP code you have this function:

<?php if(isset($_GET['scrollX']) && isset($_GET['scrollY')){ ?> <script type="text/javascript"> window.scrollTo(<?= $_GET['scrollX'];?>, <?=$_GET['scrollY'];?>); </script> <? } ?> 

You can also use jQuery and do more interesting things like highlighting text or changing CSS values ​​depending on the arguments

2-specific content

You cannot directly link to a specific line or region without extending the browser or an external service, for example CiteBite , however with some hackers you can create your own small service that displays the website and runs its own JS on it (I think, iFrames or something something like that)

Answer 2

You must provide an identifier for your item. Example: <div id="footer">Footer</div> . If you go to mypage.html#footer , the browser takes you there.

If this is not your web page, look in the code, you can find the identifier element next to the desired text.

Answer 3

As far as I know, you cannot do this initially without any caching, plugins or add-ons or with full control over html where you can embed anchor tags.