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

I wasn't able to get Surya's and Matteo's solutions to work. For example, "(#f1)" was just displayed as text, and didn't become a link. However, their solutions led me to slightly different solution. (I also formatted the footnote and the link back to the original superscript a bit differently.)

In the body of the text:

Yadda yadda1

At the end of the document:

1Here is the footnote text.

Clicking on the superscript in the footnote returns to the superscript in the original text.