Footnotes text size renders incorrectly with Hugo 0.98.0 or later

[benhsz]

When using Hugo 0.98.0 or later, the footnotes text size is the same size as the main content of the blog post, and fiddling with main#content section.footnotes in main.css does nothing.

It seems something changed with Hugo 0.98.0, because reverting to Hugo 0.97.3 or earlier fixes the problem.

[LukasJoswiak]

Apologies for the late reply. I cannot reproduce this currently with

% hugo version
hugo v0.101.0+extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate=unknown

Are you still seeing this behavior?

[benhsz]

I'm still seeing it, yeah. The version I'm using locally to work around it is

hugo v0.97.3-078053a43d746a26aa3d48cf1ec7122ae78a9bb4 windows/amd64 BuildDate=2022-04-18T17:22:19Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

If I use this version

hugo v0.101.0-466fa43c16709b4483689930a4f9ac8add5c9f66+extended windows/amd64 BuildDate=2022-06-16T07:09:16Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

Then I see the problem again.

I forgot to mention I'm using Firefox 105.0.2 but I'm seeing it with Chrome and Edge as well.

When I visit https://lukasjoswiak.github.io/etch/markdown-syntax-guide/ the footnote at the bottom appears normal, so I'm not sure what's going on exactly.

[LukasJoswiak]

Can you run the below commands from a new directory and send a screenshot of what you see?

$ hugo new site quickstart
$ cd quickstart
$ git init
$ git submodule add https://github.com/LukasJoswiak/etch.git themes/etch
$ echo '\n[params]\n  copyright = "Copyright © 2020 Your Name"' >> config.toml
$ hugo server -t etch

When I run the above and visit localhost:1313 (Hugo v0.104.3, Firefox 105.0) I see

which looks normal to me. It looks the same on Safari.

[benhsz]

That part seems to be unaffected, I've highlighted the exact area here:

The problem, which I avoid by using an earlier version of Hugo, is that the text in that area renders slightly larger than it should:

[LukasJoswiak]

Ah my apologies, I misinterpreted your original post. This looks like it was due to how the HTML for footnotes is generated. It used to use a section tag and now uses a div. I submitted a fix in #48. Let me know if this fix works for you, and I'll merge the linked PR soon.

[benhsz]

Yeah, that fixes the problem. Thanks.