Need some help implementing Bigfoot.js with Jekyll

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I am new to Jekyll and have struggled with it for some time. I can write posts, build locally, push to Netlify etc but when it comes to this particular modification, I can’t seem to find any good documentation on it.

I want to implement Bigfoot.js footnotes on my site because inline footnotes are just better. But for whatever reason, I can’t seem to get them to work on my particular site. @mmistakes has tried to help but YAML, Liquid, etc, are all unfamiliar to me coming from Java and JavaScript.

You can take a look at my repo to get a better understanding of what is going on.

I’ve added YAML to my custom.html and added the jQuery and Bigfoot scripts there and also the compiled Bigfoot css. But I can’t seem to get it to work and when I look locally in the console there aren’t any errors .

Can someone lead me in the right direction?

2

can you give a link to a page on your website where something should be happening but isn’t? I looked at a couple posts but didn’t see anything that stuck out.

3

Under the let subheading there is a footnote. Let and Const.

It doesn’t look like a Bigfoot footnote and there are no console errors.

4

If you’re having trouble getting the CSS and JS squared away you could try this plugin that does all that for you.

Just drop a tag into your layout and away you go.

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Also I don’t think you’ve included the Bigfoot CSS into your layouts/includes unless I missed it. You have the .scss file for it in /assets/css but unless you link it up it’s not going to style your footnotes.

Drop that in the head alongside the JS you added.

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Yep. Figured it out. Had to edit the CSS a bit but it works.

Thanks for all your help.