Posted on 01/07/2007 11:04:54 AM PST by Scutter
There is a new web tool that allows you to post links directly to a portion of the content of a page. You enter a URL and the text within that page to which you want to link. You'll get back a URL that you can use. When a user clicks on that URL, they will see a version of the original page with the text you selected hi-lighted and at the top of the browser page.
This is very useful for posting links to specific comments/replies on blogs.
Yeehaw! Just tested this. Thank YOU.
For this page, tried putting in <a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6236305.stm Opinion polls give Ms Royal a narrow lead over her rival, Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy.>, but it didn't function; it only brought up the page. With no space between .stm and Opinion, the page didn't come up.
http://citebite.com/m5x7x4s1cabh
Citebite provides you with a specific "url" created by citebite which will "HIGHLIGHT" the cite at the url you are referencing.
You USE the cite-bite url inside a standard link. Anyone clicking the link will be placed at that url page you are referencing (yours: BBC) and the specific cite is highlighted.
Nice!
Pardon, Tanker KC. Jedi -- please see my post #7; I inadvertently misdirected this to TankerKC.
You're welcome. But be aware, I just used this procedure for a link within FR, checked back, and it didn't work.
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