Is there a way to link to a specific section/area within a comment?

[Michael Hart]

I know that you can link to comments using the "Copy link to comment" button, but I am interested to know if there is a way to link to a specific section or area within a comment, the way that you can in Confluence with "Copy Link to Heading".

Example: confluence-url-link-to-page#Subheader-in-the-page

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Example comment: User makes a comment with a format like this:

Summary

This is the summary of a comment

Description

The comment goes on to describe something in greater detail. There are multiple sentences within this section.

Image

(An image is attached)

Questions

A question is asked within the comment

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Example response: I want to link to a specific section of their comment, because they may have written out several paragraphs and included many images in their comment.

Hello (name),

Regarding the image you may want to try clicking the other button.

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I'd think this is built into Jira comments somehow or another; it's rudimentary HTML to link to specific headers. Am I just missing how to do this? Or, is it actually not built into Jira comments?

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Michael Hart 

It appears the parameter to select a specific comment, focusedCommentId, is used by the page to scroll to and highlight the comment...even when it is not yet visible due to comment paging.

And so, depending upon your browser support, you could try using the text fragment highlighting and see what happens.  I did a quick test with Chrome and it seemed to work.  For example:

myJiraURL/browse/ABC-123?focusedCommentId=12345#:~:text=describe%20something

Kind regards,
Bill