Oddities with footnotes

[T. Kurt Bond]

I'm using Nikola 8.2.3 with the bootblog-jinja theme.

Why do some footnote references look like

<a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#xeksil" id="footnote-reference-1" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>1<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a>

there there are spans with [ and ] surrounding the footnote number and in others the footnote reference looks like this

<a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#posts" id="id1">1</a>

????

This means that if you use :before and :after on a.footnote-reference.bracket you get double [[]] on the first, while the second only has one [].

The list of footnotes in the former have them as an aside inside an aside with a span with another span inside that has a literal [ and an a element that has the footnote number and the backref, then another span with a literal ] and then the paragraph with the content of the footnote.   This means you get the number on a separate line before the content of the footnote.

 The list of footnotes in the later are inside a dl element where the dt elements have an a element with :before of [ and after of ], all inside a dt element.

I'm a little confused.

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T. Kurt Bond, tkur...@gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io

[Chris Warrick]

The CSS included with Nikola is appropriate only for the latest
version of docutils at the time of release. Docutils sometimes change
the CSS and HTML output — in this case, they moved the brackets from
the HTML output to CSS rules. Please make sure you have the latest
version of `docutils` and force a rebuild of your posts and pages (by
doing `rm -rf cache` or `nikola build -a`).

(I added some code on `master` to ensure Nikola always rebuilds when
the docutils version changes.)

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Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/>
PGP: 5EAAEA16

[T. Kurt Bond]

Thanks.  Doing `nikola build -a` made them all the same.

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