# Footnote **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [November 25, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172 "2018-11-25T11:23:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![claudiobarca](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4da419/32.png) [@claudiobarca](https://discuss.write.as/u/claudiobarca)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/1 "2018-11-25T11:23:50Z")
Hi to everyone! This is my first post in this blog. I would like to know if there is a way to add **footnotes** to the article. I tried with both Markdown and HTML syntax, but they don’t work at all. I also don’t know the address of the RSS feed of my blog (maybe this is a stupid question), and if you are programming to add an email alert for subscribers in case of new posts (like other platform as wordpress, etc.) Thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/2 "2018-11-27T15:24:56Z")
Hey, welcome! For your questions: what did you try when you were looking to add footnotes? As for the RSS feed, you can find that by adding `/feed/` to your blog URL, e.g. [https://write.as/matt/feed/](https://write.as/matt/feed/) or [https://blog.writefreely.org/feed/](https://blog.writefreely.org/feed/). But most feed readers will automatically detect it if you give them your plain blog URL, because we include this information in your blog’s metadata. And we do have email subscriptions planned ([see it on our roadmap](https://trello.com/c/kqJpOdpp/6-let-readers-subscribe-to-blog-updates-by-email)). ---
**Author:** ![claudiobarca](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4da419/32.png) [@claudiobarca](https://discuss.write.as/u/claudiobarca)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/3 "2018-11-28T11:05:39Z")
Thank you for your answer!! I tried both these ways in a markdown document: ``` This is main body of my content. I have a footnote link for this line [^1] ..... ..... [^1]: Here is my footnote. ``` and: ``` This is main body of my content. I have a footnote link for this line [1] .....

[1] Here is my footnote.

``` But unfortunately, with no results. ---
**Author:** ![BenOvermyer](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/benovermyer/32/43_2.png) [@BenOvermyer](https://discuss.write.as/u/BenOvermyer)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/4 "2018-12-03T15:07:11Z")
Footnotes are part of Extended Markdown. It would be interesting to see support for them in a blog engine. I’m not sure how many people would use that feature, though… ---
**Author:** ![jason](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/jason/32/64_2.png) [@jason](https://discuss.write.as/u/jason)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/5 "2018-12-06T20:38:33Z")
I tend to use footnotes a lot. I would love to see support for it 🙂. ---
**Author:** ![Aris](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/aris/32/58_2.png) [@Aris](https://discuss.write.as/u/Aris)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/6 "2018-12-30T13:28:26Z")
Yes, support for footnotes could be realy nice ---
**Author:** ![ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/u/ASilentDiplomat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/7 "2019-02-01T17:12:39Z")
I came here looking to see if it’s possible, and footnotes are _definitely_ something I’d use. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/8 "2019-02-04T19:07:57Z")
It’s possible we’ll support them in the future. We’ve disabled them for now, because they break if you include footnotes _and_ use the [Excerpt / “Read more” feature](https://howto.write.as/show-an-excerpt) in any given post. If anyone is interested in working on a fix, that’s always welcome! Right now we simply truncate the post and render the markdown on the initial excerpt. To fix this, we’ll need to render the markdown based on the entire post, truncate it at the `` tag, and make sure the footnotes option in the `writeas/saturday` library is enabled. ---
**Author:** ![ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/u/ASilentDiplomat)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/9 "2019-02-04T19:11:39Z")
Not having looked at the codebase, I could be way off base here. But if I’m understanding correctly, wouldn’t it be possible to just ignore any footnotes that appear in that initial pass, and then format them when the full page is rendered? ---
**Author:** ![cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/cjeller1592/32/128_2.png) [@cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/u/cjeller1592)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/10 "2019-05-09T12:28:54Z")
Hi all, I have been recently playing around with using margin notes instead of footnotes. It uses all CSS and a little HTML. An example of it in use is [here](https://blog.cjeller.site/take-back-the-margins). Definitely looks funky on phones and when viewing from the blog home page. Maybe an alternative until extended Markdown comes in? ---
**Author:** ![ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/u/ASilentDiplomat)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/11 "2019-08-07T15:52:58Z")
I’ve put together some Javascript that lets you do this, at least on blog posts themselves (they won’t render on the main page, though). See [my post](https://discuss.write.as/t/put-footnotes-in-blog-posts/762) for the code! ---
**Author:** ![ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/u/ASilentDiplomat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/12 "2019-08-09T16:23:02Z")
I forgot to add: I really like your margin notes setup. Do you know if that CSS works properly on write.as as opposed to a WriteFreely instance? ---
**Author:** ![ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/u/ASilentDiplomat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/13 "2019-08-09T16:23:56Z")
I wanted to reply to you directly (in case the notification doesn’t show), but I’ve written [a script](https://discuss.write.as/t/put-footnotes-in-blog-posts/762) that will allow footnotes. ---
**Author:** ![cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/cjeller1592/32/128_2.png) [@cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/u/cjeller1592)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/14 "2019-08-09T18:12:10Z")
I am glad you like it @ASilentDiplomat! The CSS will work properly. My blog is actually on Write.as but I think the Custom CSS should work just fine on a WriteFreely instance also. Hope that clarifies things. ---
**Author:** ![ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/u/ASilentDiplomat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/15 "2019-08-09T18:45:24Z")
It does, thanks. Did you have to use JavaScript to apply the `` tags or is there a way to have Write.as do it? ---
**Author:** ![cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/cjeller1592/32/128_2.png) [@cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/u/cjeller1592)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/16 "2019-08-09T18:50:35Z")
All I did was put the tags into editor when drafting a post. Thankfully I don’t use too many margin notes or it would be an eyesore to edit. Having the JavaScript apply the tags, like you did with your footnotes, is a good idea though. I will have to try that out soon! ---
**Author:** ![ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ASilentDiplomat](https://discuss.write.as/u/ASilentDiplomat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/17 "2019-08-09T18:54:17Z")
It can be a good alternative, depending. But your answer is interesting, as I didn’t think write.as would accept _any_ HTML in a post without escaping it. ---
**Author:** ![BarcodeMaker](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/barcodemaker/32/2706_2.png) [@BarcodeMaker](https://discuss.write.as/u/BarcodeMaker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/18 "2023-01-31T07:41:03Z")
In HTML you can use (hr)tag and then use (sup) tag . Inside (sup) You can add your content. ---
**Author:** ![TradeLabelSoftware](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/tradelabelsoftware/32/2711_2.png) [@TradeLabelSoftware](https://discuss.write.as/u/TradeLabelSoftware)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/footnote/172/19 "2023-02-01T07:06:24Z")
Once try superscript element of html as .