How to add footnotes to GitHub-flavoured Markdown?

Question

I am just trying to add footnotes in my GitHub Gist, but it doesn\'t work:

Some long sentence. [^footnote]

[^footnote]: Test, [Link](https://google.com).
         


        

Answer 1

For short notes, providing an anchor element with a title attribute creates a "tooltip".

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Otherwise, for more involved notes, it looks like your best bet is maintaining named links manually.