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Markdown Footnotes

Footnotes allow readers to quickly check annotation content. They can enhance the information content of an article without making the main body appear cluttered.

Here is a regular paragraph with a term that needs explanation[1].

First, you need to define the footnote, the format is:

[^footnote identifier]: footnote content

Typically, English half-width symbols are used. Then, reference it in the main text with [^footnote identifier].

For example:

[^1]: Footnote 1

Then, you can reference it with [^1].

Although footnotes are a very useful feature, not all Markdown editors support them, and the extent of support varies.

If the editor does not support them, it will be a type of link


  1. This is the explanation of the term, which is the content of a footnote. ↩︎