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   <h1>Automatic Footnotes with jQuery</h1>
   <p>The footnotes at the end of this article were automatically generated from the content of the page using jQuery. To learn how to do this, <a href="/automatic-footnotes-with-jquery/">read the original article on CSSnewbie.</a></p>
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