Google Chrome Now Lets You Create Links for Highlighted Text on a Webpage

Google Chrome copy link to highlighted text feat

When nosotros surf the web and find something interesting in an article or story, there are times when we want to share merely that particular paragraph with someone instead of the total text. If you are someone who would like to use such a feature, Google Chrome 90 brings the ability to share a defended link for highlighted text on a webpage.

The Mount View behemothic recently rolled out the Chrome xc update with a new option to hibernate the Reading List, a new AV1 encoder, and more. Amidst these, there is some other nifty characteristic that the software behemothic did non mention in the official changelog or blog post. Even so, it was recently shown by Google Chrome's Managing director of Engineering Adrienne Porter Felt via a tweet, which is fastened correct below.

starting with Chrome ninety, you tin link people to a highlighted function of a folio ✨🔗 I am going to use this all the timehttps://t.co/PRHpqKKgMv. pic.twitter.com/Q7r2AVfMKQ

— Adrienne Porter Felt (@__apf__) April 16, 2021

Chrome'southward New "Copy Link to Highlight" Feature

As you lot tin can see, in the Chrome 90 update, y'all will be able to copy links of highlighted text to share with others. When the person, with whom you share the link, opens it on his/her device, it will lead to the particular role of the source text which you lot highlighted. The selected text will be highlighted in yellow.

This is pretty useful when you lot want to share a certain department of an article with someone to make your point. So, with this feature, just highlight the section you want to share, select the new "Copy link to highlight" button that appears in the right-click options card, and share the link.

I tested it on the Canary version of Chrome running the Chrome 90 update and it worked perfectly fine for me. Every bit you can see in the screenshots beneath, there is the new "Copy link to highlight" push button included in the right-click options list.

And so, if you head to this link, you will find the section, which I selected to share, highlighted in yellow (screenshot below).

As per reports, Google has been testing the ability of Chrome to shared web pages with highlighted text since last year. The company reportedly released a Chrome extension dubbed "Link to Text Fragment" to enable the pick for users. All the same, with the Chrome 90 update, the company integrated the feature right into its browser.

Availability

Now, the "Copy link to highlight" feature, as per Adrienne, volition gradually roll out to the users running the latest Chrome xc update. Even so, if you lot're running the Chrome xc update and do not run into the feature, you tin enable information technology manually via the Chrome://flags copy-link-to-text Chrome flag.