Text Fragment Links Not Working From Google Sheets Cell

[googlechromelabs]

Text Fragment Links Not Working From Google Sheets Cell

[bokand]

Do you mean that the link doesn't work when clicked from sheets? Does it work when pasted in the URL bar? Can you share the link that's not working?

[tomayac]

Not sure what the problem is. I could get it working in this sheet using the HYPERLINK() function.

[obrien79]

I was trying to enter link using cmd + k and the text fragment url, didn't work then. Also the main point is it wasn't working specifically when deep linking to a section within a Google support page. Example

[bokand]

Ah, thanks for the example - that's interesting, I don't see any obvious reason why it wouldn't work. I'll take a look.

[tomayac]

Ah, so the problem is not with the link generation (what the extension does), but with the link matching (what Chrome does). I can reproduce the link to not work, but only sometimes. @bokand (who works on the Chrome part) said he's taking a look. I (as the one who works on the extension) will leave the issue closed. Maybe @bokand can share the resolution or a bug ID for you to subscribe to here (commenting always works, even if the Issue is closed).

[bokand]

Sorry for the delay - I did take a look. It seems the page is doing dynamic loading so in cases where it doesn't work it's because the page issues the load event but it's still actually inserting content into the DOM. I can make it work fairly reliably when opening in an incognito window but subsequent loads reproduce the issue and fail to scroll-to the text. I'm guessing the page does some kind of cached retrieval.

https://crbug.com/963045 is the chromium bug tracking issues like this.