Greetings
To change the colour of the footnote, add the following CSS to your custom CSS file.
span.easy-footnote a:link
{
color: green;
}
span.easy-footnote a:hover
color: red;
}
span.easy-footnote a:active
{
color: purple;
}
span.easy-footnote a:visited
{
color: cornflowerblue;
}
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I put the footnote number in square brackets instead of displaying it as a superscript.
(Jason, how about giving the users an option of how they want to display the footnote link. As well as superscripts, square brackets, other people use curly brackets to enclose references. I have not seen people use anything else.)
To display the footnotes in square brackets (for example, [99]) instead of a superscript, change the file easy-footnotes.php.
REPLACE THE LINE BELOW
$footnoteContent = “<span id=’easy-footnote-” . esc_attr( $this->footnoteCount ) . ‘-‘ . $post_id . “‘ class=’easy-footnote-margin-adjust’></span><span class=’easy-footnote’><sup>” . esc_html( $this->footnoteCount ) . “</sup></span>”;
WITH
$footnoteContent = “<span id=’easy-footnote-” . esc_attr( $this->footnoteCount ) . ‘-‘ . $post_id . “‘ class=’easy-footnote-margin-adjust’></span><span class=’easy-footnote’>[” . esc_html( $this->footnoteCount ) . “]</span>”;
THAT IS, REPLACE: <sup>” . esc_html( $this->footnoteCount ) . “</sup>
WITH: [” . esc_html( $this->footnoteCount ) . “]
Richard
Thanks @rzharding for sharing your setup. Just a warning if you update the easy-footnotes.php plugin file directly those changes will be overwritten by future updates.
@cpinedo you can also target the <sup> element on your site directly for styles.
sup {
font-size: 16px;
color: #ffffff;
}
That would make the superscript numbers 16px and white.
If you need more specificity to override theme styles you can do .easy-footnote sup {} for the selector.
Additionally if you wanted to put brackets around the superscript without editing the PHP you can use psuedo elements.
.easy-footnote sup::before {
content: '[';
}
.easy-footnote sup::after {
content: ']';
}
That should give you “[1]”.
Thank you Jason.
There are a number of choices. I use easy footnotes many times in each post. It is a really valuable plugin.
Richard.
