) both in the body right after the annotation (1 superscript) and in the footnote itself which starts a line lower than it should. Does not appear to be a problem for footnote 2, 3 etc. Ideas about what is causing this and how I could fix it? * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes/) Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Thread Starter [AchievingSustainability](https://wordpress.org/support/users/achievingsustainability/) * (@achievingsustainability) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-first-footnote/#post-5084287) * Forgot to include link to example: [http://achievingsustainability.com/about-2/](http://achievingsustainability.com/about-2/) * Plugin Contributor [Stefan Herndler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aricura/) * (@aricura) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-first-footnote/#post-5084334) * Hi, * thanks for your request. * The problem is the
tag at the beginning of the footnotes text. * Can you please send me your origin text including the footnotes tag of this post so I can have a look on the used html tags around the footnotes tag. * Thread Starter [AchievingSustainability](https://wordpress.org/support/users/achievingsustainability/) * (@achievingsustainability) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-first-footnote/#post-5084347) * here is the first paragraph: I have launched Achieving Sustainability to fill a much needed space as a “Boundary Blog((Guston [2001](http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~breth/PCC/guston_2001_BoundaryOrg.pdf)) among others have described “Boundary Organizations” as those attempting to span the boundaries between science and society, particularly to focus on solving some problem or set of problems.))” for Sustainability. This Boundary Blog is a space where science and the average citizen can meet to discuss how our societies can achieve Sustainability. The topics will be wide ranging and diverse as is the field of Sustainability but all discussions will have several key aspects: * [pmarcel1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pmarcel1/) * (@pmarcel1) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-first-footnote/#post-5084452) * I’m having the same issue, where the very first footnote/reference has a carriage return inserted after it, though I wish for it to be “in-line”. If I remove the first footnote, such that the second one (which was working as desired) becomes the first, then the new first footnote exhibits the same behavior. For this reason, I don’t believe it is anything to do with how the shortcode is being inserted or the content of the text being footnoted — the plugin itself seems to be treating the very first footnote differently. * Plugin Author [Mark Cheret](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markcheret/) * (@markcheret) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-first-footnote/#post-5084453) * Hey guys, * thanks for bringing this to our attention. We’ll have a look at it and get back to you ASAP. * Thread Starter [AchievingSustainability](https://wordpress.org/support/users/achievingsustainability/) * (@achievingsustainability) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-first-footnote/#post-5084456) * Cool thanks. * [Steffen Ehrmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steffen-ehrmann/) * (@steffen-ehrmann) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-first-footnote/#post-5084468) * Hi Stefan and Mark, * firest of all, great Plug-In! Thanks so far. * I have a similar issue as AchievingSustainability does. Only for me its not the first entry that I made which shows this behaviour. Strangely it is the last entry in the references-list that has an additional(I assume) and the second entry I have in my text which has an additional linespacing. See [http://wordpress.ehrmann-photography.de/index.php/about-this-page/](http://wordpress.ehrmann-photography.de/index.php/about-this-page/) for details. I am not sure if the described issue in the references-list is due to and additional
or due to the fact that the text is actually too long and does not get broken down properly. * Thread Starter [AchievingSustainability](https://wordpress.org/support/users/achievingsustainability/) * (@achievingsustainability) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-first-footnote/#post-5084469) * Hi Steffan, Just wanted to pass on what i did to temporarily resolve my issues.- I installed a plugin Preserved HTML Editor Markup to prevent wordpress from inserting
everywhere. -Then I used the plugin Simple Custom CSS and added: * ``` .footnote_plugin_index { font-weight: bold; } .footnote_plugin_text { display: inline } ``` * [thoron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thoron/) * (@thoron) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-first-footnote/#post-5084494) * Here’s what’s going on: When you make a footnote inside a paragraph, the output is basically: * ```
Some
element, so browsers parse it as: * ```
Some