/************************* ** ** FootNotes 0.9.1b by Your Mom ** ** Released to the Public Domain ** ** Works on modern browsers, fails gracefully on old ones. ** inspired by OverLib ... but more simple and to the point, about 6K of code but supports fewer browsers. tested and works on: windows XP + IE 6 windows 2000 + IE 5.00.3502.1000 mac firefox 0.8 (should work on regular Mozilla & recent Netscapes) windows firefox 0.8 mac Safari 1.2.1 (v125.1) (bodes well for Konqueror) Does not "work", but bails out without error messages on: mac os X opera 6.03 windows IE 3 mac os 9 netscape 4.7 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** How to apply to your page: 1) put all footnotes at the bottom of the page, inside a div with id="footnotes" 2) the footnotes MUST in a

tag) have class="fnmark". it's up to you to come up with a consistent href and id scheme. I highly recommend you use the one shown in footnote_test.htm included in this archive. 5) at the end of each footnote's text, you should put a return link which will be used by old browsers to get back to the text after reading the footnote. if you give a class="returner", it won't be shown on modern browsers that don't need it, or print it 6) attach the style sheet "footnotes.css" as shown in footnote_test.htm ... edit the style sheet if you know CSS well and need to change colors,etc.. 7) add this as the very first line after the tag:

8) save a few bytes of bandwidth by deleting these comments * */ // user-definable options: FN_Heading = "Footnote:"; FN_CloseGadget = "[ X ]"; FN_bgColor = "#eee"; FN_textColor = "#000"; FN_headBgColor = "#000"; FN_headTextColor = "#fff"; FN_Width = "200px"; // use CSS notation in here 200px, 10em, etc. FN_borderWidth = "2px"; FN_borderColor = "#777"; FN_borderStyle = "solid"; FN_padding= "1em"; // don't edit below here unless you know something about something var FN_Div, FN_List, FN_Lang, FN_CurrentOpen, FN_Bailed; var FN_FootNotes = new Array(); var FN_Version = "0.9b"; var FN_Head = '

' + FN_CloseGadget + '' + FN_Heading + '