Highlight Text in Chrome

Posted by Brett_S on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:28AM
from the self-post dept.

I discovered today that you highlight any text in Chrome by adding "#:~:text=ANY TEXT" to the end of the address.

Do you know any other tricks for Chrome?.

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Re:Highlight Text in Chrome by devang243 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:51AM (#24046718)

Copy & Paste the following line in your address bar of google chrome desktop browser and press enter. (Like we always do)

data:text/html, <html contenteditable><Title>Notepad</Title>

Boom!

Now Your webpage retrieval part is turned into notepad

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Re:Highlight Text in Chrome by Brett_S on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:16AM (#24047190)

Nice one. I extended that idea by adding it to my favourites so I don't have to type it each time.

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Re:Highlight Text in Chrome by ChrisGranger on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:51AM (#24047376)

This works in Firefox as well.

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Re:Highlight Text in Chrome by Brett_S on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:31AM (#24048539)

Turns out it works in Safari too.

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Re:Highlight Text in Chrome by devang243 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:49AM (#24046702)

instead of using PDF viewer software you can use chrome for view you PDF files

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Re:Highlight Text in Chrome by Brett_S on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:14AM (#24047173)

I use that functionality everyday without thinking about it.

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