Hi Josh Thanks very much for your reply.
I should have mentioned that we will also be listing the entire references in the footer as well. I was just looking for a way to give the user immediate feedback about each reference, and thought the title may be useful. The problem with linking back and forth is that there are *so* many references on each page, sometimes two or three to each quote, so it gets a bit messy. Any other thoughts welcome. Sarah :) > I honestly don't think this is the best solution for you, especially > if you're doing academic papers. For two reasons: > > 1) because it's impossible to get titles to "display" in a normal > browser without JavaScript, and; > 2) if someone prints out your page they don't get any citations at > all. Well, you CAN make it do that, but that either requires CSS IE > doesn't support, or more JavaScript. > > IMO, the best way is to link to the footer and have a link back to an > anchor from the footer, so: > > Some text I'm going to footnote<a href="#fn1" > id="fnbase1"><sup>1</sup></a> and then keep writing for a while. > > [...] > > <ol> > <li id="fn1">Citation goes here. <a href="#fnbase1">↑</a></li> > </ol> > > You could maybe hyperlink the entire citation, but that might cause > problems if your citation is of a website. > > The obvious advantage of this is that it prints and requires no > Javascript. > > hth, > Josh -- XERT Communications email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> office: +61 2 4782 3104 mobile: 0438 017 416 <http://www.xert.com.au/> web development : digital imaging : dvd production ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
