Generating Automatic Website Footnotes with jQuery
By Steven Snell | Published August 14th, 2008 in NewsI spent a lot of time (7 long years) in academia, writing about technical communication and new media. During that time, I created many academic documents for the web. A lot of those documents had footnotes. Generating footnotes for HTML documents in the past was always a slow, painful task — and every time I did it, I wondered why there wasn’t a better, easier way.
Today, I’m happy to announce that I’ve come up with a better solution to web footnotes using the jQuery JavaScript framework and a few tags and attributes that already exist in XHTML. And I’m even happier to show you how to do it! If you’d like to see it in action before we begin, go here.
