Recipe for Inline Popup Content in Discourse

To enable users to create Inline Popups from within the Discourse Composer, like this → [1]

Install and enable both…

The Composer Footnote Button Theme Component – provides a button to create the footnote…

… and …

The Footnotes Plugin (when set to display footnotes inline) – makes it an inline popup!


You can put anything inside the popups, including HTML

Text [2]


Text and Image Upload [3]


External iFrame [4]


HTML Content [5]


  1. I am text inside a Popup! ↩︎

  2. Plain text here. ↩︎

  3. Text and Image Upload
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