# Links as footer notes (instead of inline)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-as-footer-notes-instead-of-inline/282882
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 20, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-as-footer-notes-instead-of-inline/282882 "2023-10-20T10:48:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![iamntz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamntz/32/114670_2.png) [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-as-footer-notes-instead-of-inline/282882/1 "2023-10-20T10:48:44Z")

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Back in the day, before the new Discourse composer, the inserted links were added at the end of the post, not inline (se below).

Wonder if this can be re-enabled in any way, as writing a post with more than a couple of links will make the editing a little nightmareish.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/9/4/994351111b4211f6a051eb60a8fbfea9046296e4.png)

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-as-footer-notes-instead-of-inline/282882/2 "2023-10-20T11:29:06Z")

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There’s a setting you can toggle for this, `display footnotes inline`:

 ![display footnotes inline](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/a/7/9a77399a123d3faaedbb1e456acd9f70c92e4cd7.png)

Sam has recently turned it off on meta so it should follow that behaviour on here\[1\]\[2\]

Or do you mean this style\[3\]

```plaintext
Or do you mean this style[^3]

[^3]: meta.discourse.org

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1. I think 

2. ~~or at least if you’re not on mobile~~ Just checked on mobile and I see non-inline ones on there too 👍

3. [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org)

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### Author: ![iamntz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamntz/32/114670_2.png) [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-as-footer-notes-instead-of-inline/282882/3 "2023-10-20T12:54:06Z")

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@JammyDodger This is NOT related to _footnotes_ per se, it’s purely for _links_. I think it’s about [Reference-style Links](https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#reference-style-links).

Here is a more obvious example that it includes the preview and some explanations. As you can see, the second variant is **much** easier to read.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/2/2/8226128472aa9460dd7b0b8cbc8aa14722e1347e.png)

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-as-footer-notes-instead-of-inline/282882/4 "2023-10-20T13:00:51Z")

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I did not know about these. 🙂

> This is NOT related to _footnotes_ per se, it’s purely for _links_. I think it’s about [Reference-style Links](https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#reference-style-links)

Did they used to happen automatically?

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### Author: ![iamntz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamntz/32/114670_2.png) [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-as-footer-notes-instead-of-inline/282882/5 "2023-10-20T13:06:05Z")

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Back in the day (like… 4-5 years ago)? Yes, that was the only option to enter links (when clicking on `hyperlink` icon or pressing ctrl+k). The link is then referenced by its index (but you can enter there whatever you’d want)

If you had multiple links and inserting a new link, the numbering was automagically updated.

Then the new editor came and this feature was gone ☹