#web #hypertext

Or “how you can link to arbitrary text on a webpage”.

The syntax is a little weird, but you can add a specially formatted anchor to a URL to link to a snippet of text.

The syntax is:

https://example.com#:~:text=[prefix-,]textStart[,textEnd][,-suffix]

I find it particularly useful for linking to a quote in a longer article.

See MDN for the full documentation.