| Jukka K. Korpela 2005-10-30, 6:27 pm |
| Haines Brown <brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> wrote:
> At present I style my footnotes as follows:
How do you make footnotes work in the first place. They basically don't.
Endnotes or links work much better on the Web as it is now.
> .note {
> vertical-align: super;
> font-size: smaller;
> padding-right: 2px;
> }
>
> <p>
> <a name="N1" class="note">1</a>
> <note text>
> </p>
The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., clause 16.25) recommends that
footnote numbers be written as normal numbers, not superscript.
On the web, a footnote reference and a footnote should normally be linked
to each other both ways. For reasons and techniques, see
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/fn.html
I mention this because making a footnote number a link is yet another
reason to make it appear in normal font, not as superscript.
> However, it would be nice to use the OL element so that the footnotes
> are automatically numbered in sequence.
I doubt that. It would defeat the linking idea (or at least its natural
implementation). Moreover, you still have to keep track of the numbers in
the footnote references.
> The problem with this is that the numbers are followed by periods. Is
> there any way to get rid of the periods so that the number is
> immediately followed by the footnote text?
No. Browsers aren't really _supposed_ to put periods after the list item
numbers they generate, but they actually do, and they don't give us a way
to prevent that.
--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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