Have you ever seen a website with footnotes?

Sara M. · 2025-11-06T05:27:30.583Z

Have you ever seen a website with footnotes? My client has a content heavy website and wants to put sources, but I feel like that's not so UX friendly and it's not too common. Am I wrong?

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Al-ibiewi
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If the references are online, you can use embedded links. He's not an expert, you are! So you have to come up with a way around his needs I hope this helps
Emily M.
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Completely depends on the industry. Do you have references of other websites in this space that handle this with footnotes, or another solution?
Catherine H.
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Totally acceptable and expected to cite references in footnotes on medical sites. We do them all the time when citing research on projects for clients. The users understand and expect the content formatted in that matter so therefore it’s meeting the users expectation of the experience.
Catherine H.
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Al-ibiewi no. As a designer it’s your job to meet your clients needs not work around them. They are the expert in their content and you aren’t.
Al-ibiewi
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Exactly 😃 We're saying the same thing. Work around to meet up with their needs i.e know the best way to meet up with it There can be a very innovative way he can make the sighting that will stand out. That was my intention Catherine H. Thanks by the way
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Max W.
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Are the sources related to the article? If so then yes to adding them, this sends a positive signal to google and LLM. It’s up to you how to style them. You could use the <details> element which comes with native expand/collapse functionality, then just style it as needed.
Sara M.
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The footnote would be a few lines from a book showing the source for the content. Not external links, though that would be nice.
Sara M.
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Can I see some websites that have footnotes for reference?
Sara M.
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There's going to be many pages on this site with the same structure, so we're trying to see if we can do this in the CMS, or at least keep to a template. I'm not sure how we can do that footnotes in different places.
Max W.
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Is the book source content from another external source or is the book from the client?
Sara M.
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external source. The client is writing an article on a specific topic and making certain statements about the topic which then he give a footnotes to show where the statement came from. Does that make sense?
Al-ibiewi
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Sara M., add the footnotes as footnotes if the sources do not exist online. If they exist online, use embedded links. Does this make sense?
Sara M.
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Do you have an example?
Al-ibiewi
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For the first or second?
Sara M.
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footnotes

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