Highlight text by link in chrome

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I resently found out that in chrome you can highlight text in the link. This can be done by adding #:~:text= to the link. Example: This link does not highlight anything while This link highlights my chosen context. Since I discoverd this I'm using it all the time for showing somthing to a colleague.

My question is what is the browser suport for this? And if I try to highlight a whole paragraph it doesn't work, so what is the limmit?

I searched for a while without anny sucess.

Edit

After long trying i found that there is not a spesivic limit to this. It stops at a dot F.E. This is will work. and if i go farther like This won't bequse the text im searching goes trough after the first dot!

Edit 2

Having another look at the documentation I saw that you can add a begin and end preifelx. When useed you can select a whole paragraph like This.

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[For ongoing detailed browser support information: Scroll-To-Text Fragment support on Can I use]

Well, after some obscure googling I got this

TL;DR - it's a very interesting chrome-specific feature Scroll To Text Fragment. As mentioned here there is no support in other browsers, albeit IE/Edge is in "public support" state (as they say, it used to be in IE5). Documentation is here, and I don't see any size limits. Maybe the problem is in line break/begin-end paragraph special symbols handling?

UPD: other idea: there was a limit on GET-request length - 2,048 characters. Now it should be bigger, but maybe chrome still somehow cut/doesn't process too long URLs?

UPD2: The first guess is right. This link to wikipedia works, albeit this, only one character more, doesn't. The problem is in 0A/0D "carrage return/line feed" characters: if they are present in text, even encoded, highlight won't work at all. Possibly it's a bug and should be reported to Chrome, but still. Good thing for checking this is to paste selected text in Chrome "Search" tool: if it doesn't find pasted text and you see some strange characters - whoopsie.

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