Display #Anchors

Name: Display #Anchors
Rating: 4.883333333333334 (60 reviews)
Author: Rob W

Displays anchors for all content in the current web page without breaking the layout.

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Display #Anchors is a lightweight Chrome extension designed to reveal all invisible anchors within a webpage, enabling users to easily identify and link to specific sections. It highlights anchored content on hover and features markers that do not disrupt the page layout or cause jumps, ensuring a seamless browsing experience.

With customizable shortcuts, optional cross-origin frame support, and minimal resource consumption activated only when used, Display #Anchors offers an efficient and user-friendly tool for developers, content managers, and power users who frequently work with deep links. Comprehensive customization and support are available via its GitHub repository.

Extension Developer Tools Productivity Utilities Education

By:

Rob W

Users:

10,000

Rating:

4.88

(60)

Version:

1.5 Last updated: 2024-06-03

Creation date:

2018-09-10

Risk:

Permissions:

scripting
storage
notifications
contextMenus
activeTab

Size:

32.65KB

Email:

ro*****@robwu.nl

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-16

Ranking

# 7,443 ▲ 12

Other rankings

#3250 in Workflow & Planning

#9 in display keyword 24

#80 in marker keyword 28

#119 in source code keyword 26 ▼ 19

#140 in layout keyword 20 ▼ 10

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Display #Anchors (v1.4resigned1)

1,112 4.85

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User reviews

The Display #Anchors extension is praised for making deep-link sharing and navigation on webpages straightforward and effortless. Users highlight its lightweight and non-intrusive nature, alongside reliability in Chrome. However, some report visual issues where anchors overlap page content or cause layout shifts on specific sites. Feature requests include adding a TOC sidebar and more customizable options. It also lacks compatibility with browsers like Edge. Overall, it is deemed an essential, easy-to-use tool especially beneficial for developers and users frequently navigating large documents.

Pros

Provides easy access to deep-links or anchors on webpages, making it simple to share links to specific sections.
Lightweight, non-intrusive, and simple to use without unnecessary permissions.
Works reliably on many websites and in Chrome, beneficial especially for developers and users dealing with long or dense documents.
Highly appreciated for improving navigation on pages lacking anchor links.
Helps avoid the need to manually inspect page elements to find anchors or IDs.

Cons

Sometimes the displayed anchors overlap with page text, leading to visual clutter or readability issues.
On certain websites (e.g., TestRail), toggling anchors causes page content to shift or indent oddly.
Limited features such as lack of a Table of Contents (TOC) sidebar or options to customize appearance or behavior of anchors.
Does not work in all browsers, notably not working in Edge, limiting cross-browser utility.

Recent reviews

Essential plugin. I use it all the time to provide deep-links to resources.

Ge*****, 2025-07-02

Show Anchors удаляют, хотя оно сработало пару раз и то когда мне было все равно. Поставлю эту, раз рекомендуют

Ве*****, 2025-03-05

An extension that is hard to live without. I'm surprised it's an optional feature, but I use it so often I don't see why it isn't part of every browser by default.

Re*****, 2024-08-11

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Risk impact

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Display #Anchors requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Medium Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.

Risk likelihood

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Display #Anchors has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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