diff --git a/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift b/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
index f313c1ce..01079327 100644
--- a/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ class ContentTextView: LinkTextView {
         
         delegate = self
         
+        // Disable layer masking, otherwise the context menu opening animation
+        // may be clipped if it's at an edge of the text view
+        layer.masksToBounds = false
         addInteraction(UIContextMenuInteraction(delegate: self))
         
         textDragInteraction?.isEnabled = false
@@ -253,6 +256,12 @@ extension ContentTextView: MenuPreviewProvider {
 extension ContentTextView: UIContextMenuInteractionDelegate {
     func contextMenuInteraction(_ interaction: UIContextMenuInteraction, configurationForMenuAtLocation location: CGPoint) -> UIContextMenuConfiguration? {
         if let (link, range) = getLinkAtPoint(location) {
+            // Determine the line rects that the link takes up in the coordinate space of this view
+            var rects = [CGRect]()
+            layoutManager.enumerateEnclosingRects(forGlyphRange: range, withinSelectedGlyphRange: NSRange(location: NSNotFound, length: 0), in: textContainer) { (rect, stop) in
+                rects.append(rect)
+            }
+            
             let preview: UIContextMenuContentPreviewProvider = {
                 self.getViewController(forLink: link, inRange: range)
             }
@@ -268,11 +277,68 @@ extension ContentTextView: UIContextMenuInteractionDelegate {
                 }
                 return UIMenu(title: "", image: nil, identifier: nil, options: [], children: actions)
             }
-            return UIContextMenuConfiguration(identifier: nil, previewProvider: preview, actionProvider: actions)
+            
+            // Use a custom UIContentMenuConfiguration subclass to pass the text line rect information
+            // to the `contextMenuInteraction(_:previewForHighlightingMenuWithConfiguration:)` method.
+            let configuration = ContextMenuConfiguration(identifier: nil, previewProvider: preview, actionProvider: actions)
+            configuration.textLineRects = rects
+            return configuration
         } else {
             return nil
         }
     }
+    
+    func contextMenuInteraction(_ interaction: UIContextMenuInteraction, previewForHighlightingMenuWithConfiguration configuration: UIContextMenuConfiguration) -> UITargetedPreview? {
+        // If there isn't custom text line rect data, use the default system-generated preview.
+        guard let config = configuration as? ContextMenuConfiguration,
+              let rects = config.textLineRects,
+              rects.count > 0 else {
+            return nil
+        }
+        
+        // Calculate the smallest rect enclosing all of the text line rects, in the coordinate space of this view.
+        var minX: CGFloat = .greatestFiniteMagnitude, maxX: CGFloat = .leastNonzeroMagnitude, minY: CGFloat = .greatestFiniteMagnitude, maxY: CGFloat = .leastNonzeroMagnitude
+        for rect in rects {
+            minX = min(rect.minX, minX)
+            maxX = max(rect.maxX, maxX)
+            minY = min(rect.minY, minY)
+            maxY = max(rect.maxY, maxY)
+        }
+        let rectEnclosingTextLineRects = CGRect(x: minX, y: minY, width: maxX - minX, height: maxY - minY)
+        
+        // Try to create a snapshot view of this view that only shows the minimum
+        // rectangle necessary to fully display the link text (reduces the likelihood that
+        // other text will be displayed alongside it).
+        // If a snapshot view cannot be created, we bail and use the system-provided preview.
+        guard let snapshot = self.resizableSnapshotView(from: rectEnclosingTextLineRects, afterScreenUpdates: false, withCapInsets: .zero) else {
+            return nil
+        }
+        
+        // Convert the textLineRects from the context menu configuration to be in the
+        // coordinate space of the snapshot view. The snapshot view is created from
+        // rectEnclosingTextLineRects, which means that, while its size is the same as the
+        // enclosing rect, its coordinate space is relative to this text views by rectEnclosingTextLineRects.origin.
+        // Since the text line rects passed to UIPreviewParameters need to be in the coordinate space of
+        // the preview view, we subtract the origin position from each rect to convert to the snapshot view's
+        // coordinate space.
+        let rectsInCoordinateSpaceOfEnclosingRect = rects.map {
+            $0.offsetBy(dx: -rectEnclosingTextLineRects.minX, dy: -rectEnclosingTextLineRects.minY)
+        }
+        
+        // The preview parameters describe how the preview view is shown inside the prev.
+        let parameters = UIPreviewParameters(textLineRects: rectsInCoordinateSpaceOfEnclosingRect as [NSValue])
+        // todo: parameters.visiblePath around text
+        
+        // The center point of the the minimum enclosing rect in our coordinate space is the point where the
+        // center of the preview should be, since that's also in this view's coordinate space.
+        let rectsCenter = CGPoint(x: rectEnclosingTextLineRects.midX, y: rectEnclosingTextLineRects.midY)
+        
+        // The preview target describes how the preview is positioned.
+        let target = UIPreviewTarget(container: self, center: rectsCenter)
+        
+        return UITargetedPreview(view: snapshot, parameters: parameters, target: target)
+    }
+    
     func contextMenuInteraction(_ interaction: UIContextMenuInteraction, willPerformPreviewActionForMenuWith configuration: UIContextMenuConfiguration, animator: UIContextMenuInteractionCommitAnimating) {
         if let viewController = animator.previewViewController {
             animator.preferredCommitStyle = .pop
@@ -281,4 +347,10 @@ extension ContentTextView: UIContextMenuInteractionDelegate {
             }
         }
     }
+    
+    /// Used to pass text line rect data between `contextMenuInteraction(_:configurationForMenuAtLocation:)` and `contextMenuInteraction(_:previewForHighlightingMenuWithConfiguration:)`
+    fileprivate class ContextMenuConfiguration: UIContextMenuConfiguration {
+        /// The line rects of the source of this context menu configuration in the coordinate space of the preview target view.
+        var textLineRects: [CGRect]?
+    }
 }