# Editor converts markdown inline notes to endnotes

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/editor-converts-markdown-inline-notes-to-endnotes/6091>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 6:44am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/editor-converts-markdown-inline-notes-to-endnotes/6091 "2019-03-07T06:44:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vikram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@Vikram](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Vikram)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 6:44am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/editor-converts-markdown-inline-notes-to-endnotes/6091/1 "2019-03-07T06:44:32Z")

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I’m using Ghost 2.16.14.

I insert a new markdown card, and then paste in markdown for a blog post which contains inline notes. But the editor converts these to endnotes.

This is inconvenient for a post containing lots of notes – the user is forced to go back and forth between the text of the post and the endnote.

Am I missing something, or does Ghost not support inline notes (yet)?

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**Author:** ![Kevin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/kevin/32/32_2.png) [@Kevin](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Kevin)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/editor-converts-markdown-inline-notes-to-endnotes/6091/2 "2019-03-07T13:24:49Z")

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@Vikram what are you referring to as “inline notes”? Can you provide an example of the markup you’re trying to use?

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**Author:** ![Vikram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@Vikram](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Vikram)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/editor-converts-markdown-inline-notes-to-endnotes/6091/3 "2019-03-07T19:00:51Z")

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@Kevin,

Here’s the markdown I’m putting into a markdown card:

`Here is an inline note.^[Inlines notes are easier to write, since you don't have to pick an identifier and move down to type the note.]`

When the post is published, it looks like this:

 ![Ghost%20Inline%20Note%20Display](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/3/3152210f19c8a5bfb4079ae6281cb82929712aab.png)

What we’d like is for the user to be able to click on the note number, and a popup to show the text of the note.

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**Author:** ![Vikram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@Vikram](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Vikram)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/editor-converts-markdown-inline-notes-to-endnotes/6091/4 "2019-03-07T21:23:54Z")

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@Kevin,

Just after posting, I realized that the above markdown syntax is for inline _footnotes_, so the editor is working as expected. Sorry – am new to markdown and Ghost.

But, if there’s any way to achieve popup notes in Ghost, that’d be great.

Best,

```
 Vikram
```

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**Author:** ![Vikram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@Vikram](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Vikram)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/editor-converts-markdown-inline-notes-to-endnotes/6091/5 "2019-03-08T00:41:34Z")

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And, to clarify, here’s an example of a popup note would look like, from xkcd’s “What if”:

 ![xkcd%20what%20if](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/8/8afd67191cbc7a131fe6b434051bf95d4d1120c9.png)

Here’s the page this was taken from: [Spiders vs. the Sun](https://what-if.xkcd.com/136/).

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**Author:** ![Kevin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/kevin/32/32_2.png) [@Kevin](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Kevin)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/editor-converts-markdown-inline-notes-to-endnotes/6091/6 "2019-03-08T08:31:54Z")

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> [@Vikram](#):
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> But, if there’s any way to achieve popup notes in Ghost, that’d be great.

This isn’t something Ghost itself would do but it’s certainly possible to do that within a theme using client-side javascript using something like [http://www.bigfootjs.com](http://www.bigfootjs.com).

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/editor-converts-markdown-inline-notes-to-endnotes/6091/7 "2019-03-22T08:37:47Z")

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