Title: Footnotes without Markdown?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Footnotes without Markdown?

 *  [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
 * (@luhmann)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-without-markdown/)
 * I’d like to implement some code to make it easy to have footnotes in WP blog 
   posts. Ideally they would be numbered automatically, formatted properly, and 
   have links back to the footnote in the text. Any help or suggestions would be
   appreciated. I would like this to use some unique tag instead of Markdown. Maybe
   <footnote></footnote>.

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 *  [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/)
 * (@iand)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-without-markdown/#post-204093)
 * Can be done with CSS, though it is not completely automatic. I have extra quicktags
   to put the markup in, so it’s easy.
    CSS: `.footnote { font-size: .9em; border-
   top: 1px solid #a9a9a9; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 15px; } At the end 
   of the post: <div class="footnote"><sup>1</sup>My footnote</div>
 *  [brainwidth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainwidth/)
 * (@brainwidth)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-without-markdown/#post-204097)
 * If you don’t mind me asking, why not use Textile or Markdown to do this?
 *  Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
 * (@luhmann)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-without-markdown/#post-204101)
 * I found this:
 * [http://www.alexking.org/blog/2004/11/28/footnotes/](http://www.alexking.org/blog/2004/11/28/footnotes/)
 * It might work!
 *  Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
 * (@luhmann)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-without-markdown/#post-204102)
 * IanD: Thanks for the CSS.
 * brainwidth: Textile seems to screw up regular HTML that I use. I mostly post 
   with ecto.
 *  Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
 * (@luhmann)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-without-markdown/#post-204861)
 * I just found this, which looks really nice:
 * [http://www.brandspankingnew.net/archive/2005/07/format_footnote.html](http://www.brandspankingnew.net/archive/2005/07/format_footnote.html)
 * Don’t know of any WP implementation yet, however, but it would be nice to have!
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-without-markdown/#post-204862)
 * In this thread there is an enhanced version of the quicktags.js for download.
   It works perfectly 🙂
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/37515](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/37515)
 *  [drzax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drzax/)
 * (@drzax)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-without-markdown/#post-204878)
 * Just thought I’d add my solution to this thread as well.
 * [New WordPress Plugin: Footnotes](http://www.elvery.net/drzax/index.php/2005/07/29/new-wordpress-plugin-footnotes/)
 * S.

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 * [footnote](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/footnote/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-without-markdown/#post-204878)
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