How to add footnotes to GitHub-flavoured Markdown?

Question

I am just trying to add footnotes in my GitHub Gist, but it doesn\'t work:

Some long sentence. [^footnote]

[^footnote]: Test, [Link](https://google.com).
         


        

Answer 1

Expanding on the previous answers even further, you can add an id attribute to your footnote's link:

 Bla bla [1](#f1)

Then from within the footnote, link back to it.

1 Footnote content here. [↩](#a1)

This will add a little ↩ at the end of your footnote's content, which takes your readers back to the line containing the footnote's link.