# remark-footnotes
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[**remark**][remark] plugin to add support for footnotes.
## Install
[npm][]:
```sh
npm install remark-footnotes
```
## Use
Say we have the following file, `example.md`:
```markdown
Here is a footnote reference,[^1]
another,[^longnote],
and optionally there are inline
notes.^[you can type them inline, which may be easier, since you don’t
have to pick an identifier and move down to type the note.]
[^1]: Here is the footnote.
[^longnote]: Here’s one with multiple blocks.
Subsequent paragraphs are indented to show that they
belong to the previous footnote.
{ some.code }
The whole paragraph can be indented, or just the first
line. In this way, multi-paragraph footnotes work like
multi-paragraph list items.
This paragraph won’t be part of the note, because it
isn’t indented.
```
And our script, `example.js`, looks as follows:
```js
var vfile = require('to-vfile')
var report = require('vfile-reporter')
var unified = require('unified')
var markdown = require('remark-parse')
var remark2rehype = require('remark-rehype')
var format = require('rehype-format')
var html = require('rehype-stringify')
var footnotes = require('remark-footnotes')
unified()
.use(markdown)
.use(footnotes, {inlineNotes: true})
.use(remark2rehype)
.use(format)
.use(html)
.process(vfile.readSync('example.md'), function (err, file) {
if (err) throw err
console.log(String(file))
})
```
Now, running `node example` yields:
```html
Here is a footnote reference,
another,,
and optionally there are inline
notes.
This paragraph won’t be part of the note, because it
isn’t indented.
```
## API
### `remark().use(footnotes[, options])`
Plugin to add support for footnotes.
###### `options.inlineNotes`
Whether to support `^[inline notes]` (`boolean`, default: `false`).
###### Notes
* Labels, such as `[^this]` (in a footnote reference) or `[^this]:` (in a
footnote definition) cannot contain whitespace
* Image and link references cannot start with carets, so `![^this doesn’t
work][]`, and `[^neither does this][]`
## Security
Use of `remark-footnotes` does not involve [**rehype**][rehype]
([**hast**][hast]) or user content so there are no openings for [cross-site
scripting (XSS)][xss] attacks.
## Related
* [`remark-breaks`](https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-breaks)
— More breaks
* [`remark-frontmatter`](https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-frontmatter)
— Frontmatter (yaml, toml, and more) support
* [`remark-github`](https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-github)
— References to issues, PRs, comments, users, etc
* [`remark-math`](https://github.com/rokt33r/remark-math)
— Inline and block math
## Contribute
See [`contributing.md`][contributing] in [`remarkjs/.github`][health] for ways
to get started.
See [`support.md`][support] for ways to get help.
This project has a [code of conduct][coc].
By interacting with this repository, organization, or community you agree to
abide by its terms.
## License
[MIT][license] © [Titus Wormer][author]
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[coc]: https://github.com/remarkjs/.github/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md
[license]: license
[author]: https://wooorm.com
[remark]: https://github.com/remarkjs/remark
[xss]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
[rehype]: https://github.com/rehypejs/rehype
[hast]: https://github.com/syntax-tree/hast