Drop footnote-references from summary if bottom_footnotes = true

ccjmne · August 25, 2025, 8:55pm

Actually it looks like some code is supposed to be doing just that:

components/markdown/src/markdown.rs

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          if has_summary {
              // Note: we render the summary separately, restarting from
              // the beginning for the actual body of the page, as cmark's html
              // renderer has internal state, such as the footnote counter,
              // that it does not expose.
              let mut summary_html = String::new();
              cmark::html::push_html(
                  &mut summary_html,
                  events.iter().cloned().take(continue_reading),
              );
              // remove footnotes
              let mut summary_html = FOOTNOTES_RE.replace_all(&summary_html, "").into_owned();

Yet I still see the <sup class=”footnote-reference”> in my summary.

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Drop footnote-references from summary if bottom_footnotes = true

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