Newline glyph shows at the end of every footnote

[bvdg]

Steps to reproduce

In the sandbox vault, create a document with one or more footnotes. For example, this document:

Here is text with one[^fn] footnote; this text's line ending is not shown in Reading View.

[^fn]: And this is the text of the footnote. Do you notice the line ending glyph?

Switch to Reading View and look at the result.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Y

Expected result

Like the main text, the footnote should not have any glyphs for ‘invisible characters’ like spaces, tabs and newlines in Reading View (and PDF output).

Actual result

At the end of each footnote, a newline glyph is visible both in Reading View and in the PDF export.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.9.14
	Installer version: v1.8.4
	Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 25.0.0: Wed Sep 17 21:41:45 PDT 2025; root:xnu-12377.1.9~141/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 25.0.0
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	Language: en
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Restricted mode: on

[WhiteNoise]

It’s not a bug. That’s a link to the originating paragraph.

[bvdg]

Ah, I see, thanks!

Might I suggest that an arrow that points into the text would convey the idea of ‘going back into the text toward the footnote reference’ better than an arrow that points to the start of the next line? Some candidates might be:

• U+2934 ARROW POINTING RIGHTWARDS THEN CURVING UPWARDS
• U+2919 ↑ UPWARDS ARROW
• U+005E ^ CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT (used by Wikipedia for this purpose)

Anyway, this is probably not a bug but a usability suggestion.

EDIT: Here’s a CSS snippet that does what I want (in case anyone else wants it too)

.footnote-backref, .footnote-backref:hover {
    color: transparent;
}
.footnote-backref::before {
    content: '↑';
    color: var(--text-faint);
}

[CawlinTeffid]

@bvdg

Might I suggest

You might! And here is the place to do it: Feature requests - Obsidian Forum.

I’ve seen the newline character used for this online (example below) but agree something else would be more intuitive.

[bvdg]

Ok, done.