# Tooltip for footnote in canvas card not working

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/tooltip-for-footnote-in-canvas-card-not-working/108773>\
**Category:** Bug reports\
**Tags:** canvas, ui-ux, footnotes\
**Created:** [December 7, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/tooltip-for-footnote-in-canvas-card-not-working/108773 "2025-12-07T03:09:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![georgeslanglois](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/georgeslanglois/32/67821_2.png) [@georgeslanglois](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/georgeslanglois)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/tooltip-for-footnote-in-canvas-card-not-working/108773/1 "2025-12-07T03:09:14Z")

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### Steps to reproduce

Create a canvas from scratch  
Add a card  
Add a footnote inside the card  
Hover over the footnote link

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

Yes. Issue occurring in current vault and brand new vault

### Expected result

A tooltip showing the actual footnote’s content

### Actual result

A tooltip showing: “#[^1]” is not created yet. Click to create.

### Environment

SYSTEM INFO:  
Obsidian version: v1.10.6  
Installer version: v1.8.10  
Operating system: Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200  
Login status: not logged in  
Language: en  
Insider build toggle: off  
Live preview: on  
Base theme: adapt to system  
Community theme: none  
Snippets enabled: 0  
Restricted mode: on  
RECOMMENDATIONS:  
none

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### Additional information

The gif below shows the bug happening in common canvas card. The footnote link works but not the tooltip.

![footnote](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/2/d/2d0b6a0ac2ba3a1011677d0f23aaae8681e9c204.gif)

Below I successfully reproduce the tooltip view with a loaded notes card

![footnoteOk](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/2/d/2d91b073a4998ce1b8d3eee21a0a633dabaed926.gif)

I found the topic below requesting the footnotes feature in Canvas, which makes me think that previously not even the footnote subscript was working — which is no longer the case today. We can add a footnote and it’s subscript, but the tooltip won’t appear correctly.

> [@Add Footnote Formatting in Canvas](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/add-footnote-formatting-in-canvas/55942):
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> Use case or problem I use Canvases to connect my notes together and often wish to add footnotes to record my sources. However, the [^1] and the [^1]: functions don’t go to superscript or denote a refernence, respectively, as they would in a typical note. Proposed solution Enable [^1] and [^1]: to work in cards exactly as they would in a note.