[whatwg] Footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes

Håkon Wium Lie howcome at opera.com
Tue Oct 31 10:59:14 PST 2006


Also sprach Alexey Feldgendler:

 > > I agree. W3C recently published a proposal on how to achieve
 > > footnote/endnote presentations using the same markup [1]. The proposal
 > > is quite simple. Given this markup:
 > >
 > >   <div class=note>..</div>
 > >
 > > you would achieve footnoes with:
 > >
 > >   .note { position: footnote }
 > >
 > > ane endnotes with:
 > >
 > >   .note { position: endnote }
 > >
 > > Comments welcome.
 > 
 > I would also welcome something like
 > 
 > article::after { content: endnotes() }
 > 
 > ...to indicate where all those endnotes should go.

The proposal suggests this:

  article::after { 
    content: pending(endnote);
  }

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-gcpm-20060919/#endnotes

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
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