[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by davidfor

There doesn't have to be a backlink for the footnote popup to be used.

But, I've been playing with Semwize's book and I cannot get the footnote popups to display. I have changed the links to use sup tags and removed the classes. I've fiddled with the destinations to be the paragraph, an anchor, added the backlinks and cleaned up the code a bit. looking at other books that use footnotes and work, I cannot see what the difference is.

Odd! All I can say is the kepub footnotes pop-up for me in Semwize's book after cleaning-up the errors and re-coding the links. I didn't add any <sup> tags or CSS changes, but I did add HTML backlinks and used regex to logically renumber all 193 link/backlink ids to match the actual footnote number.

Here's an example:

Before - main body HTML (ie ch1-2.xhtml)::

<p ...>some text<a href="ch2.xhtml#id49" class="a">[1]</a></p>

Before - footnote HTML (ie ch2.xhtml):

<span id="id49">
    <div class="title1">
         <p class="p">1</p>
    </div>
...
</span>

After - main body HTML (ie ch1-2.xhtml)::

<p ...>some text<a href="ch2.xhtml#fn1" class="a" id="back1">[1]</a></p>

After - footnote HTML (ie ch2.xhtml):

<div id="id49">
    <div class="title1">
        <p class="p"><a id="fn1" href="ch1-2.xhtml#back1">1</a></p>
    </div>
...
</div>