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Footnotes with the same number in different posts on the same page
If 2 or more posts on a page contain footnotes with the same number, they all link to the footnote that appears earliest on the page.
For example, the question How should a Codidact public API work? has a footnote numbered 1 in both the question and an answer. Clicking on the footnote number in the answer scrolls the page to the footnote at the bottom of the question. Similarly, from the footnote at the bottom of the answer, clicking the return arrow scrolls the page to the footnote number in the middle of the question.
I thought that this could be avoided by using different footnote numbers for each post on the page, but Moshi points out in a comment that this was raised before and the comments there explain that the rendered numbering starts from 1 regardless of what numbers are used in the raw Markdown.
With this in mind, could each footnote link URL include the post id so that it is always distinct from a footnote link URL with the same footnote number in another post on the same page?
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