# Question: add to footnote in a render hook?
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/question-add-to-footnote-in-a-render-hook/41387
**Category:** support
**Tags:** footnotes
**Created:** [November 11, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/question-add-to-footnote-in-a-render-hook/41387 "2022-11-11T01:25:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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I’d like to render images with titles as figures, through image render hooks, like this:
```auto
{{- if .Title -}}
{{- end -}}
{{- if .Title -}}
{{ .Title | .Page.RenderString }}
{{- end -}}
```
The problem is that if the title of image contains a footnote reference, it doesn’t get rendered as a footnote, but instead, just plain text. For instance,
```auto
...
[^1]: Footnote content
```
Is there a solution?
Thanks!
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Hijacking the image render hook to generate a `figure` element instead of an `img` element will produce invalid HTML. The `figure` element will be wrapped within a `p` element. That’s not allowed.
If you want to insert a `figure`, use the figure shortcode or create your own.
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Well, I suppose that it is a sort of solution, if I just avoid using render hook altogether. But I’d still like to know if there’s a way, in a more general sense, to add footnote inside a rendering hook.
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> [@PowerSnail](#):
>
> if there’s a way, in a more general sense, to add footnote inside a rendering hook
There is not. Footnotes are handled by the markdown renderer, and render hooks short circuit that.
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