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1. laurasbadideas
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   Jan 8, 2012, 8:34 AM

   I sometimes switch back and forth between visual mode and html mode editing; I also sometimes put footnotes in my posts, by typing something like this in html mode:
   <br /> This is some text.<a href="#footnote">*</a><br /> This is some more text.<br /> <a href="#footnote_ref">*</a>This is a footnote.<br />
   So, if you click on the first *, you go to the footnote, and if you click on the second *, you go back to the point where the footnote was referenced. The problem is that if I switch to visual mode and back to html mode, the text gets changed to:
   <br /> This is some text.<a href="#footnote"></a>*<br /> This is some more text.<br /> <a href="#footnote_ref"></a>*This is a footnote.<br />
   The asterisks now appear after the closing tag, so there's nothing to click on to get to the footnote or back to the point where it was referenced.

   This isn't a huge problem for me, because I can work around it by just fixing the links in html mode as the last step before publishing, or doing something like this:
   <br /> This is some text.<a /><a href="#footnote"></a>*<br /> This is some more text.<br /> <a /><href="#footnote_ref">*This is a footnote.<br />

   I've seen this behavior on Firefox 10.0 and Chrome 16.0.912.75 on Mac OSX Lion. And yes, I've tried clearing my cache and cookies (in Chrome, at least).

   The blog I need help with is unlikelyexplanations.com.

2. laurasbadideas
   Member
   Jan 8, 2012, 8:41 AM

   Sorry -- apparently I completely messed up the formatting. Here's the same thing again, but I'm just going to type "[" and "]" instead of less than and greater than signs:

   I sometimes switch back and forth between visual mode and html mode editing; I also sometimes put footnotes in my posts, by typing something like this in html mode:

   <br /> This is some text.[a name="footnote_ref" href="#footnote"]*[/a]<br /> This is some more text.<br /> [a name="footnote" href="#footnote_ref"]*[/a]This is a footnote.<br />

   So, if you click on the first *, you go to the footnote, and if you click on the second *, you go back to the point where the footnote was referenced. The problem is that if I switch to visual mode and back to html mode, the text gets changed to:

   <br /> This is some text.[a name="footnote_ref" href="#footnote"][/a]*<br /> This is some more text.<br /> [a name="footnote" href="#footnote_ref"][/a]*This is a footnote.<br />

   The asterisks now appear after the closing [/a] tag, so there's nothing to click on to get to the footnote or back to the point where it was referenced.

   This isn't a huge problem for me, because I can work around it by just fixing the links in html mode as the last step before publishing, or doing something like this:

   <br /> This is some text.[a name="footnote_ref"/][a href="#footnote"]*[/a]<br /> This is some more text.<br /> [a name="footnote"][a href="#footnote_ref"]*[/a]This is a footnote.<br />

   I've seen this behavior on Firefox 10.0 and Chrome 16.0.912.75 on Mac OSX Lion. And yes, I've tried clearing my cache and cookies (in Chrome, at least).

3. airodyssey
   Member
   Jan 10, 2012, 11:50 PM

   Hi. What if you try on another browser (say Firefox 9)?

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