# Numbering footnotes across multiple pages

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/numbering-footnotes-across-multiple-pages/2277>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 15, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/numbering-footnotes-across-multiple-pages/2277 "2018-10-15T19:36:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/numbering-footnotes-across-multiple-pages/2277/1 "2018-10-15T19:36:54Z")

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I have footnotes that need to be numbered across multiple markdown files using this syntax:

```
This is the first footnote on my first page[^1]
This is the first footnote on my second page[^23]

```

Both link to the proper footnote, but both appear with the superscript ‘1’ when the second one should be ‘23’.

`<p>This is the first footnote on my second page<sup id="fnref:23"><a href="#fn:23" class="footnote">1</a></sup></p>`

Is there a way to render the correct footnote number? This is my markdown config:

```
markdown: kramdown
kramdown:
  parse_block_html: true
```