If the text doesn't match anything, the page will still load. If you copy and paste this into Chrome, the browser will open Wikipedia's cat page, scroll to the first text that matches "Most breeds of cat have a noted fondness for sitting in high places," and will highlight it. #:~:text=Most breeds of cat have a noted fondness for sitting in high places After the URL, the magic is in the string "#:~:text=" and then whatever text you want to match.
The syntax for this URL is pretty strange looking. Google has proposed the idea to the W3C and hopes other browsers will adopt it, but even if they don't, the links are backward-compatible. Now a new extension from Google makes it easy to create this new link type, which will work for anyone else using Chrome on desktop OSes and Android. The feature has actually been supported in Chrome since version 80, which hit the stable channel in February.
It's like an anchor link, but with highlighting and creatable by anyone. Google has been cooking up an extension to the URL standard called " Text Fragments." The new link style will allow you to link not just to a page but to specific text on a page, which will get scrolled to and highlighted automatically once the page loads.
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