# Footnote styling

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/footnote-styling/114>\
**Category:** support\
**Tags:** footnotes\
**Created:** [September 25, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/footnote-styling/114 "2014-09-25T18:45:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 9:14am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/footnote-styling/114/8 "2019-01-16T09:14:45Z")

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This thread was really useful to me to customize the footnote links and return symbol. Thank you!

Now, I am struggling to get rid of the `<hr>` that gets automatically added above the footnotes. I looked in all the css and scss files of the theme I am using and I cannot find where the formatting of the footnotes is.

Any advice on where this formatting might be encoded or alternatively, a way to override the default formatting would be really helpful. I made the footnotes a lot smaller and I would like to either get rid of the `<hr>`, or at least make it shorter and pale gray.

Thank you!

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