Footnotes and Galleries

Roe’s auto-gallery feature wraps consecutive images in a lightbox automatically. Footnote definitions can also contain images — and sometimes both appear in the same post. This article tests that each stays where it belongs.

Body auto-gallery

Two or more consecutive images in the body become a gallery with lightbox. Here’s a row of three:

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A single image

A lone image renders inline, no gallery wrapping:

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Footnotes containing images

When an author places images inside a footnote definition, they should stay inside the footnote when rendered — not leak out into the article body. The paragraph below references a footnote that contains two groups of images with prose in between1.

After a footnote with images, the body’s auto-gallery feature should still work. Here’s another set of consecutive images:

An author can also use an explicit gallery block inside a footnote to get the lightbox treatment there2.

A second paragraph inside the same footnote.
  1. 1.

    This footnote contains images and a second paragraph of prose. The images should render as plain inline images inside the footnote, and the prose should render as a paragraph — not a code block.

  2. 2.

    To opt into lightbox inside a footnote, indent a fenced gallery block by 4 spaces: