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title: "s.footnote-marker"
description: "## Syntax **s.footnote-marker** ## Purpose The s.footnote-marker annotation is used to tag a span element as being the superscript number linking to a footnote. ## Example The following is an example of a time when you might want to use…"
url: "https://www.stilo.com/docs/migrate/task/s-footnote-marker/"
updated: "2023-12-11"
category: Annotations / Task
tags:
  - Annotations
---

# s.footnote-marker

## Syntax

**s.footnote-marker**

## Purpose

The s.footnote-marker annotation is used to tag a span element as being the superscript number linking to a footnote.

## Example

The following is an example of a time when you might want to use the s.footnote-marker annotation:

![](https://www.stilo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/stilo-dita-xml-annotation-s.footnote-marker0.png)

The following is an example of a rule that will apply s.footnote-marker:

![](https://www.stilo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/stilo-dita-xml-annotation-s.footnote-marker1.png)

The following is the DITA XML output for the previous rule:

<p>This sentence contains a quote with a footnote: <q>this is the quote</q>.<xref href="#ID-00000004/ID-00000003" type="fn"/><fn id="ID-00000003"><div><fn> This is the footnote.</fn></div></fn></p>