The internet is a vast and wonderful resource, but it can also be overwhelming. When you’re researching a topic or trying to find information on a specific website.
It helps to have a way to bookmark the part of the page that’s most relevant to what you’re looking for. That way, you can easily pick up where you left off without having to scroll through the entire page again.
Process of Bookmarking a specific part of a page:
- Go to the page that you want to bookmark.
- Select the specific part that you want to bookmark, and right-click.
- Click on “Copy Link to Highlight.”
- Open a new tab > paste the URL > and Enter.
- Bookmark the page.
Now when you click on the bookmarked link from the browser, it will open the page with the specific part of the page.
Bookmarking a Specific Part of a Page:
How Do I Link to a Specific Part of a Page in Chrome?
- Linking to a specific part, or anchor, of a web page, is relatively easy to do in Google Chrome. You can use what’s called an “anchor tag” to create the link. Here’s how:
- Find the spot on the page where you want to create the link. This could be text, an image, or anything else.
- Right-click on the spot and select “Inspect.” This will open up Chrome’s developer tools pane.
- In the developer tools pane, find the HTML element that corresponds to the spot you selected in step 1. For example, if you’re linking to text, it will likely be within a “” tag. If you’re linking to an image, it will be within an “
” tag.
- Within that HTML element, add an “id” attribute with a unique value (e.g., “my-link”). This will be used as the anchor name for your link (more on that below).
- Now that you’ve added an id attribute to your chosen HTML element, it’s time to create the actual link that points to it.
- That’s done by adding a tag with two attributes: href=”#my-link” (where “my-link” is whatever value you chose for your id attribute in step 4) and target=”_blank”.
The former tells Chrome where on the page to go when clicked; specifically, “#my-link” says “go to the element with id=”my-link”” The latter tells Chrome to open this link in a new tab/window when clicked; without it clicking would simply scroll down/over directly to #my-link without opening anything new.
Assuming all of this was done correctly – i.e., there actually is now an HTML element somewhere on your web page with id=”my-link” – then clicking on your newly created link should take users directly down/over #my-link in Chrome (in a new tab/window if target=”_blank” was included).
Can You Link to a Certain Part of a Web Page?
Yes, you can link to a certain part of a web page by adding an anchor tag. The anchor tag consists of the name of the page followed by a # and the name of the section on the page you want to link to.
For example, if you wanted to link to the “About Us” section on a website, you would add the following code: <a href=”domainName.com/about-us”></a> in your HTML file or web application file.
You may want to link a certain part of a web page for different purposes. you can also follow the already-mentioned guide on How to Bookmark a Specific Part of a Page.
How Do I Bookmark a Specific Part of a Page in Firefox?
If you’re using the Firefox web browser, there are a couple of different ways that you can bookmark a specific part of a page. One way is to use the “Bookmark This Page” feature under the Bookmarks menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+D (Windows) or Cmd+D (macOS) to bookmark the current page.
When you bookmark a page, Firefox will create a link to that page in your bookmarks list. By default, this bookmarks list is located in the toolbar at the top of your browser window. If you want to bookmark a specific part of the page, you’ll need to first select some text or an image on that page.
Then, right-click and choose “Bookmark This Link.” You can also add a bookmark for any open tab by right-clicking on the tab and selecting “Bookmark All Tabs.” This is useful if you want to save all of the tabs that you have open in one go.
Just be aware that if you bookmark multiple tabs, they will all be opened at once when you click on the bookmarked link later.
How to Copy Link to Specific Part of Page
- If you want to share a specific part of a webpage with someone, you can copy the link to that section and send it to them. This is called creating a fragment identifier. Here’s how to do it:Find the section of the page that you want to share.
- Highlight the text or click on the element that you want to share.
- Right-click and select “Copy Link Location.”
- Paste the link into an email or chat window and send it to your friend.
When your friend clicks on the link, they will be taken directly to that section of the page. Fragment identifiers are especially useful when sharing long articles or pages with lots of information.
Link to Specific Part of Page Without Anchor
A common way that people frequently follow to link a specific part of a page without anchor is by bookmarking the specific part of the page and visit the page later.
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Summing-up:
If you come across a webpage that you want to bookmark for later but only need to remember a specific part of the page, You can simply do the following:
Open the page > Select the area of text that you want to bookmark > Right-click > Click on “Copy to Highlight” > Open a new tab > Paste the copied link and enter > Now bookmark this page on your browser for later visiting.
