Title: Subscript not superscript
Last modified: November 25, 2020

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# Subscript not superscript

 *  Resolved [tamstree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tamstree/)
 * (@tamstree)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscript-not-superscript/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve installed the latest update. I’m not sure which update did this (I didn’t
   check each time) but, instead of displaying footnotes in a superscript format
   they now display as subscript.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsubscript-not-superscript%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Contributor [pewgeuges](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pewgeuges/)
 * (@pewgeuges)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscript-not-superscript/#post-13709407)
 * Hi [@tamstree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tamstree/)
 * I’m sorry to learn that your website underwent a disturbance again because of
   Footnotes updates.
 * Inspecting you page, we can see that you have these rules in bootstrap.min.css:
   5:
 *     ```
       sub, sup {
           position: relative;
           font-size: 75%;
           line-height: 0;
           vertical-align: baseline;
       }
       ```
   
 * When I disable `vertical-align: baseline`, the footnote referrers rise from subscript
   to baseline, and when doing the same with `position: relative`, I see them rise
   to superscript.
 * If you would downright delete these rules, would that fix the display of the 
   footnote referrers?
 * Such mishaps are not uncommon. Footnotes itself carried along three not cross-
   theme-compatible and not cross-browser-compatible rules that needed to be deleted
   as soon or late as for 2.0.6 on November 5, given they were causing exactly that
   same behavior in some browsers and in a number of themes:
 *     ```
       .footnote_plugin_tooltip_text {
           vertical-align: top !important;
           position: relative !important;
           top: 0.6em !important;
       }
       ```
   
 * (Despite its name, this class belongs to the footnote referrers, but we can’t
   correct its name, with respect to its eventual use in custom CSS.)
 * Best regards
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by [pewgeuges](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pewgeuges/).

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 * Last reply from: [pewgeuges](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pewgeuges/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscript-not-superscript/#post-13709407)
 * Status: resolved