100841 2012-10-31 04:24:35 -0700 Allow CSS selectors as fragment identifiers 2025-10-01 06:11:42 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit CSS 528+ (Nightly build) Unspecified Unspecified RESOLVED WONTFIX http://simonstl.com/articles/cssFragID.html InRadar P3 Enhancement --- 1 johnme webkit-unassigned abarth annevk bfulgham eoconnor ie2kl43y kenneth koivisto mjs peter sam tony webkit-bug-importer oldest_to_newest 755142 0 johnme 2012-10-31 04:24:35 -0700 It would be nice to allow using CSS selectors as fragment identifiers, so that you can link to things which don't have an id or name attribute. For example: http://example.com/lorem.html#css(.content:nth-child(2)) There's an unofficial draft spec: http://simonstl.com/articles/cssFragID.html And a community group: http://www.w3.org/community/cssselfrags/ The main downside I can see is that such fragments may be brittle and break if the structure of the page is changed, but this is often still preferable to not being able to use a fragment at all. 756009 1 mjs 2012-11-01 02:35:00 -0700 It's an interesting idea. Are there any other browser engines planning to implement this? Are there any plans to move this work into a full Working Group? 1883222 2 webkit-bug-importer 2022-07-13 11:39:12 -0700 <rdar://problem/96964473> 2144815 3 ie2kl43y 2025-09-22 04:01:13 -0700 (In reply to Maciej Stachowiak from comment #1) > Are there any other browser engines planning to implement this? Are there any > plans to move this work into a full Working Group? https://github.com/karanlyons/pinpoint/blob/4b2ec192c0400f26d7ff80ec3a652e467d5ee563/README.mkd#not-using-safari appears to be the closest available. I don't see any bugs for other browsers, and https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/blob/10e6348b200f973232e713838a5a57db0bf483fb/README.md#using-css-selectors-as-fragment-identifiers:~:text=Simon%20St.%20Laurent%20and%20Eric,on%20it%20in%20this%20proposal explicitly corroborates this. 2147506 4 annevk 2025-10-01 06:11:42 -0700 We'll consider this once there's a standardized solution. No need to keep a bug around for this.