[Tex/LaTex] Why are all of the footnotes hyperlinked to the titlepage

back-referencingfootmiscfootnoteshyperref

Problem

I have various footnotes, which are hyperlinked from the text to the bottom of their respective pages. When I click on the hyperlinks (in the main text), they always take me to the first page of my document. I also have footnotebackref which puts a hyperlink at the footnote to take the reader back to the main body of text and these links for fine.

Edited MWE

After a lot of deletion, I have managed to reduce the document to the following lines. One might say that I have found the problem, since the removal of \usepackage[hang, flushmargin]{footmisc} stops the problem, but I would still like to have non-indented footnotes.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}

\usepackage[hang, flushmargin]{footmisc}         %Problem line.
\usepackage{footnotebackref}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents            
\newpage                
\section{Section}
This is some text\footnote{This is a footnote.}.
\end{document}

Best Answer

In a comment to the question I quoted footmisc's manual:

The hyperref package has ambitions to make hyperlinks from footnote marks to the corresponding footnote body; naturally this causes grief to footmisc, and unfortunately no remedy is currently known. If you use footmisc, suppress hyperref's hyperfootnotes, by loading it as: \usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false,...]{hyperref} Further work on the interaction between the two packages is proposed, but not yet scheduled.

So it is to be expected that things might not be working the way one wishes. However, the problems in the MWE can simply be solved by changing the package loading order:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[hang, flushmargin]{footmisc}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{footnotebackref}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents            
\newpage                
\section{Section}
This is some text\footnote{This is a footnote.}.

\newpage\null% to see that the hyperlink works
\end{document}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] footnote in table with hyperlinks

As we found out in the comments to the question if compiled with pdflatex the links are rectangles, i.e. the foodnote marks are inside the link boxes. latex + dvips leads to empty link boxes below the table footnotes instead.

The savenotes environment produces wrong hyperlinks, though. tablefootnote gets them right:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{tablefootnote}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|}
    \hline
     A & 1 & 2 \tablefootnote{This is the first footnote.} \\
    \hline
     B & 2 & 1 \\
    \hline
     C & 3\tablefootnote{This is the second footnote.} & 3 \\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{A table caption.}
\end{table}%

Text\footnote{This footnote is hyperlinked.}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Change reference position for footnote link

The trick is to move code used by hyperref for setting the footnote anchor/target as part of the footnote text (so after the footnote mark has been 'drawn') into the code for defining the 'footnote' part of the footnote mark! (The footnote mark is used twice for every footnote, once in the text and once in the footnote itself; I am referring to the latter here.)

Default LaTeX makes no distinction between the two footnote marks, which may be why hyperref originally does things this way around. footnotebackref does make the distinction in some sense, but not in a way we can cleanly patch, so we undo their changes and patch them back in using our method (I copied the code for this from the current version of footnotebackref, so this may get out of sync).

The following code should work whether or not footnotebackref is used (but if it is used, it must be loaded before this patch). hyperref must also be loaded before this patch. Original definitions of \@makefnmark are preserved except when footnotebackref is used, which clobbers them anyway.

\documentclass{article}
% comment/uncomment various combinations of these for testing
%\PassOptionsToPackage{symbol=$\wedge$}{footnotebackref}
%\PassOptionsToPackage{numberlinked=false}{footnotebackref}
\usepackage{footnotebackref}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\makeatletter

% distinguish between footnote marks in the text and in the footnotes themselves!
\let\hyperfoot@oldmakefntext\@makefntext
\renewcommand*{\@makefntext}{%
    \let\hyperfoot@base@makefnmark\@makefnmark
    \let\@makefnmark\hyperfoot@infootnote@makefnmark
    \hyperfoot@oldmakefntext}

% set the hypertarget (through \hyper@@anchor) before placing \@thefnmark
\newcommand*{\hyperfoot@infootnote@makefnmark}{%
    \fn@settarget
    \hyperfoot@base@makefnmark
}

\@ifpackageloaded{footnotebackref}{%
\ifFootnoteBackref@numberlinked
        \let\hyperfoot@oldmakefntext\BHFN@OldMakefntext% undo their patch
        \renewcommand\hyperfoot@infootnote@makefnmark{%... and merge with ours
            \fn@settarget
            \mbox{\textsuperscript{\normalfont%
            \hyperref[\BackrefFootnoteTag]{\@thefnmark}}}\,}%
\fi
}{}


% reset hyperref's overriding of \@footnotetext, which basically just adds the \hyper@@anchor as part of the footnote text
\long\def\@footnotetext#1{%
    \H@@footnotetext{#1}}
% and put the hyperref magic into \fn@settarget instead
% note that we set the anchor text to be \relax. previously, it was sometimes (=when allowing links to be nested) the footnote text. I don't actually know what the effect is of having anchor text... but apparently no drivers support nesting at the moment anyway.
\newcommand\fn@settarget{% a form of this was previously part of hyperref's \@footnotetext
%\message{^^J^^J**setting target!**^^J^^J}% we should only see as many 'setting target' messages in the log as there are footnotes!
      \ifHy@nesting
        \expandafter\ltx@firstoftwo
      \else
        \expandafter\ltx@secondoftwo
      \fi
      {%
        \expandafter\hyper@@anchor\expandafter{%
          \Hy@footnote@currentHref
        }{\relax}%
      }{%
        \Hy@raisedlink{%
          \expandafter\hyper@@anchor\expandafter{%
            \Hy@footnote@currentHref
          }{\relax}%
        }%
        \let\@currentHref\Hy@footnote@currentHref
        \let\@currentlabelname\@empty
      }%
}

% following makes testing slightly easier on my monitor
\hypersetup{pdfstartview={XYZ null null 4}}
\textheight=3cm

\begin{document}
Text\footnote{The first footnote.} Text.

Let's have more than one footnote!\footnote{For better testing!}
\end{document}