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Using the <footnote> tag

Introduction to CNXML tags

Understanding XML terminology

Complete CNXML tag list

Description

The footnote tag is used to generate a footnote on selected text.

Example

This CNXML:


<para id="example-paragraph">
  Many people may not know that cheesecake
  is tart, not a cake. 
  <footnote id="example-footnote"> 
    Alan Davidson, Oxford Companion to Food,
    s.v. cheesecake: "Cheesecake, not a
    cake in the ordinary sense, is really a
    kind of tart."
  </footnote>
</para>

Results in this display:

Many people may not know that cheesecake is tart, not a cake. 1

Footnotes

Alan Davidson, Oxford Companion to Food, s.v. cheesecake: "Cheesecake, not a cake in the ordinary sense, is really a kind of tart."

Attributes(what's this?)

id (required): A unique identifier, whose value must begin with a letter and contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, colons, and/or periods (no spaces).

Children(what's this?)

title (one, optional), para, term, cite, cite-title, foreign, emphasis, sub, sup, code, preformat, quote, note, list, media, footnote, link, newline, space, definition, example, figure, table, rule, equation, exercise, Unicode text

Parents(what's this?)

preformat, para, title, label, cite, cite-title, link, emphasis, term, sub, sup, quote, foreign, footnote, note, item, code, caption, commentary, meaning, entry

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