1 Multimarkdown footnotes are pretty useful. If they are enabled in a
2 wiki, they don't look so good with the default stylesheet, however, as
3 the references are in the same size and positioning as everything
6 This particular wiki does not use multimarkdown, so there's no easy
7 way to demonstrate this here, you'll have to trust me on this. :)
9 The following stylesheet should be added to `style.css`:
11 a.footnote { vertical-align: super; font-size: xx-small; }
12 div.footnotes { font-size: small; }
14 This is a typical style that user-agents apply to the `<sup>` tag. For
15 example, chromium has this builtin style for `<sup>`:
17 vertical-align: super;
20 Bootstrap uses this instead:
30 vertical-align: baseline;
33 I settled on `xx-small` because it's the only size that doesn't affect
34 line-height here. However, Bootstrap's way may be better.
36 At any rate, the correct way to fix this is to *avoid* custom styling
37 and use the `<sup>` tag for the footnote reference, as it has
38 *meaning* which is important to have proper semantic output (e.g. for
39 screen readers), as detailed in [this Stack Overflow discussion][].
42 [this Stack Overflow discussion]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/501671/superscript-in-css-only
44 > ikiwiki code does not interpret Markdown or translate it into HTML.
45 > If I'm interpreting what you say correctly, you seem to be implying
46 > that you think [[!cpan Text::MultiMarkdown]] is producing incorrect
47 > HTML for footnotes (is an `<a>` with a `class`, should be a `<sup>`).
48 > If so, please report that as a MultiMarkdown bug, not an ikiwiki bug,
49 > or alternatively don't use MultiMarkdown.
51 > What remains after eliminating the MultiMarkdown bug seems to be:
52 > ikiwiki's default stylesheet does not contain the necessary styling
53 > to work around the non-semantic markup produced by the non-default
54 > Text::MultiMarkdown Markdown implementation. Is that an accurate
58 Note that I also make the bottom `<div>` small as well so that it has
59 less weight than the rest of the text. -- [[anarcat]]