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@dagood dagood commented Jan 23, 2026

Some footnotes can be a bit tricky to associate with the list at the end of the table, so try adding a details element to make them clickable:

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This should have no content change, just formatting.

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The footnotes are hard to follow, that's a real issue. On the other hand, I'm don't quite like the solution proposed here:

  • Each table entry with a footnote now will have an arrow and a superscript number, which feels like too noisy.
  • It is not directly evident that clicking the arrow will expand the entry, nor that the expanded content is the same as the footnote down below.
  • The table layout changes when the entry is expanded, and expanding too many entries makes the table unreadable
  • The markdown source code is uglier (nit)

I would prefer something like native GitHub Markdown footnotes instead, see https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-footnotes-now-supported-in-markdown-fields/.

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