We have a catalog on our college website.
It may be found here:
https://www.southark.edu/admissions/resources/course-catalog
The links going down the left side of the page point to specific pages within the catalog.
For example:
https://www.southark.edu/images/catalogs/2021-2022/2021-2022_SouthArk_Catalog_FINAL.pdf#page=100
But when clicked, Chrome truncates the last portion of the url (in this case, #page=100), and it displays the first page of the catalog, not the intended page.
This happens in Chrome, but not Firefox.
It has worked in Chrome for years, but now it does not.
Any idea why Chrome is doing this and what kind of workaround I might be able to do?
P.S. I just tested it in Safari on my iPhone and it is doing it on there as well.
Thanks,
Charley
I discovered that it is due to the Chrome PDF extension. If I turn it off, it operates as it should.
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TL;DR
How/why are some browsers able to search and highlight text in the HTML body which is followed by #:~:text= in the URL?
Explanation
One day I was searching for something on Google, which lead me to Quora's result. I observed that 2 sentences were highlighted in yellow, which were part of URL after the aforementioned parameter. I thought this would be Quora's feature for SEO or something, however, also found this on Linkedin, and Medium, and so on.
I'd like to know:
What is this highlighting called? Why/how does it work?
This seems to be browser-specific. What kind of browsers support this?
It seems to work on Chrome and Edge; but not on Firefox, Safari, and IE.
Does a frontend programmer need to incorporate something in the code to have search engines highlight content on their web-pages? (Based on the assumption that search engines actually appends the relevant string predicted by user's query)
The highlighting is called Text Fragments. Its a new feature that was recently added to Chrome 80. It works by specifying a text snippet in the URL hash.
Yes it is browser specific.
No, the experience that you get when clicking on a link from Google's search results is part of Featured Snippets which are algorithmically determined. There is nothing you can incorporate into your code to prompt search engines to highlight text on your page.
There is no markup needed by webmasters. This happens automatically,
using Scroll To Text for HTML pages
https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096. See also more
background here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6229325
Sources:
https://web.dev/text-fragments/
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280115/google-search-engine-yellow-highlight-featured-snippet-anchor-text
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295300/google-link-to-text-fragment-chrome-extension-chromium-highlight-scroll-down
https://searchengineland.com/google-launches-featured-snippet-to-web-page-content-highlight-feature-335511
https://blog.chromium.org/2019/12/chrome-80-content-indexing-es-modules.html
While text fragments is natively implemented only in latest Google Chrome (and the latest versions of Chromium-based browsers, such as the new Microsoft Edge), there is a browser extension/add-on that seems to enable it on Firefox and Safari: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/link-to-text-fragment
It appears to use #ref-for-fragment-directive:~:text= and additional arguments (instead of just simple #:~:text=).
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/link-to-text-fragment/
Safari: https://apps.apple.com/app/link-to-text-fragment/id1532224396
Curiously enough, the extension has also been made available for Chrome and Edge too (!).
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UPDATE: I'm testing it on Firefox Developer Edition, and it doesn't work for me.
This is a slightly strange one that I've not been able to find anything out about. On OSX 10.11.4 using Google Chrome v 55.0.2883.95 (this is a friends computer) when opening a page to update a product on a site I've built some of the fields are blank.
I've tested it on other computers and in safari on his and the data is there and correct. It's also in the database as it should be Chrome just seems to be removing it.
I've turned autofill off wondering if that was the problem but it still doesn't work.
Any ideas would be great - thanks
Managed to solve the problem. It was browser based but caused by vue.js working correctly on some browsers but not others.
Disabling the vue aspect of the page sorted it. Now I need to sort Vue :)
I have an image (with a number in the image name - it's called ad1.jpg). Anyhow, it loads fine on any major browser I tested, yet it never seems to load on Google Chrome for some reason. I saw it once today, but aside from that, it's the old image title that appears instead of the image.
I am 150% sure that the problem is that Google Chrome is not properly reading the image name because of the number. Is there an actual problem with using number in image names using HTML5 standards? If not, does Chrome actually have a problem reading numbers in image names?
I had a similar problem, it was because of an 'Ad Blocker' installed on my browser. It read the word 'ad' and blocked it. Is it possible that is the problem?
If you refresh the page several times work? Clear cookies and cache and try again. Maybe this is problem.
Gif images render for a split second, when page is fully loaded then disappear leaving the broken image icon. This happens only in Chrome other browsers it's fine including Safari.
The weird thing is all has been fine and working perfectly for months up until last night.
Chrome's web developer tool reads 'Failed to load resource'.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
A link to a page is below.
Thanks,
http://www.isenterprises.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=33_46&products_id=748
(it's the 'Colours Available' colour swatches that don't render properly)
In fact IE doesn't know who "Transfer-Encoding" is. You will have to write:
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: deflate');
in paps_makethumb.php.
Add:
header('Transfer-Encoding: deflate');
in paps_makethumb.php
Same issue for me, solved by removing Chrome extensions!
Chrome menu Chrome menu > Settings.
Click Extensions.
Check what's in there... I had to uninstall "QR Code generator" previously installed.
Maybe some extensions need to be updated, but i uninstalled them and now Chrome renders well.
In building my responsive website I have come across a bug that appears only in IE8, and I cannot figure out why. I use a cross browser testing service (as I build on a Mac) and on my portfolio page - http://www.weblinedesign.com.au/portfolio in firebug, I notice on nearly every line, there is added code "checkedbycsshelper=true". It's preventing my images from loading as the tags wrapping the image tags have been disabled - assumed by this line of code.
It doesn't happen in any other browser, only IE8 and all my attempts at searching Google have come up null. There are literally no references anywhere in Google to "checkedbycsshelper".
It's being added by this script:
http://www.weblinedesign.com.au/wp-content/themes/wd/js/css3-mediaqueries.js
I'm not sure why, but I'd check around for newer versions of that script, and/or other reports of issues with that script on IE8.
A bug report has been opened on the developer's Google Code repo, but not yet resolved.
(http://code.google.com/p/css3-mediaqueries-js/issues/detail?id=8)