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Footnotes link to the first occurrence on the page, which is wrong if both Q and A have footnotes

Open cellio opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278294:

If there is a proper footnote (using the links) in the question of the post and in any of the answers, and you click on a footnote in the answer, it will lead to the footnote that is part of the question.

Meta post has examples that demonstrate the problem.

Also: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289324

cellio avatar Oct 08 '20 03:10 cellio

In case it affects priority, this has been raised again on Meta.

trichoplax avatar May 31 '25 11:05 trichoplax

For completeness, note that this also affects questions that have no footnotes, if more than one of the answers have footnotes.

trichoplax avatar May 31 '25 11:05 trichoplax

I see this is marked "deferred". Is that because it requires changing a markdown library? (Did I understand that correctly from discussions elsewhere?)

cellio avatar Jun 01 '25 21:06 cellio