Link from "Copy link to highlight" does not scroll to the highlighted text

[moktavizen]

Describe the bug

When opening link from "Copy link to highlight", the viewport does not scroll to the highlighted text. I tested this issue on several browsers:

• Chromium (Linux) = yes, does not scroll.
• Vivaldi (Linux) = yes, does not scroll.
• Safari (iOS 18) = yes, does not scroll.
• Firefox (Linux) = no, works as expected.
• Zen (Linux) = no, works as expected.

Reproduction

1. Restart browser
2. Open link from "Copy link to highlight", such as:
   • https://vitepress.dev/guide/getting-started#:~:text=To%20better%20understand%20how%20markdown%20files%20are%20mapped%20to%20generated%20HTML
   • https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-vite-plus?utm_source=vite&utm_content=top_banner#:~:text=Vite%2B%20will,launch

Expected behavior

The text is scrolled into view and highlighted with color.

System Info

System:
    OS: Linux 6.12 Arch Linux
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
    Memory: 10.74 GB / 15.44 GB
    Container: Yes
    Shell: 5.9 - /usr/bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 25.2.1 - /usr/bin/node
    npm: 11.7.0 - /usr/bin/npm
    pnpm: 10.25.0 - /usr/bin/pnpm
    Deno: 2.6.2 - /usr/bin/deno
  Browsers:
    Chromium: 143.0.7499.192
    Firefox: 146.0.1
    Firefox Developer Edition: 146.0.1

Additional context

Reproduction video

vitepress-link-issue.mp4

Validations

• Check if you're on the latest VitePress version.
• Follow our Code of Conduct
• Read the docs.
• Check that there isn't already an issue that reports the same bug to avoid creating a duplicate.

[moktavizen]

Maybe related to #5079

[brc-dd]

Likely unrelated to 5079. That was because of CLS from images.

[userquin]

On my android chrome VP link doesn't work whereas VoidZero link works, maybe we also need to check text fragments here at client router logic (VP link seems to handle the hash as internal page link):
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/Fragment/Text_fragments

[userquin]

This link to VP docs works (added final slash to getting-started):

https://vitepress.dev/guide/getting-started/#:~:text=To%20better%20understand%20how%20markdown%20files%20are%20mapped%20to%20generated%20HTML