Re: [csswg-drafts] [selectors] New pseudo-class that matches the current URL fragment (#6942)

This feels a bit of a necropost, but I want to give my example.

[My blog](https://guilhermesimoes.github.io/blog/) does this:

> if you use :target to highlight an element after the user scrolls to it via a fragment hyperlink, with some sort of fading-out flash

However, I **don't** want the fragment hyperlinks to be added to the history state of my site. If a user clicks on 1 or 2 footnotes, then when he presses back he doesn't get sent to the previous page, he gets sent to the previous footnotes.

If I use `history.replaceState()` to avoid adding new history entries then I lose access to `:target`. Seems like there's no current solution for this problem, or is there?

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