Linking To Almost Anywhere In An HTML Page

For a while now, I’ve been pondering how to link to any part of any page on the web. Basically extending the URL syntax so that you can quote just a sentence of another page, or point people at a story which starts three-quarters of the way down a page.

Whilst it doesn’t achieve this goal, this article explains how it’s possible to link to “id” elements in the same way as “name” elements in <a>nchor tags.

I wasn’t aware of that, and it expands the number of points at which you can link into any existing page. Not quite the universal linking and quoting that I’m after, but if you combine it with something like this service to add ids to an existing page then you can get close, in a kind-of roundabout fashion.