Title: Adding Brackets
Last modified: August 27, 2021

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# Adding Brackets

 *  Resolved [nujuminstitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nujuminstitute/)
 * (@nujuminstitute)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-brackets/)
 * Hi,
 * Awesome plugin. I’m trying to add brackets to the footnotes’ numbers using the
   custom CSS below but it’s not working. Can you help me please?
 *     ```
       .modern-footnotes-footnote a::before {
       content: “[“;
       }
       .modern-footnotes-footnote a::after {
       content: “]”;
       }
       ```
   
 * Much appreciated.

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 *  Plugin Author [prismtechstudios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prismtechstudios/)
 * (@prismtechstudios)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-brackets/#post-14823716)
 * Hi [@nujuminstitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nujuminstitute/) ,
 * You’re close here! This CSS should work:
 *     ```
       .modern-footnotes-footnote a::before {
       content: "[";
       display: inline;
       }
       .modern-footnotes-footnote a::after {
       content: "]";
       display: inline;
       }
       ```
   
 * Best,
    Sean

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