**Widget Overview: Airtable Citations**
**What it does:**
- Pulls a **description/body text** from a "Topics" collection (sourced from Airtable) and renders it as rich formatted text — supporting bold, italic, headings, lists, blockquotes, and more
- Detects **citation markers** like `[1]`, `[2]`, `[3]` embedded in the text and replaces them with interactive inline elements
- Loads matching citation data from a separate "Citations" collection and displays each citation's **info text** and **link URL**
- Supports two citation display modes: **footnotes** (a numbered list below the text) or **tooltips** (hover/click popups on each inline marker)

**Content Settings (what the site owner configures):**
- Topics collection name, description field, and citations widget field
- Citations collection name, marker field, info field, and link field
- Whether to show citations at all (visibility toggle)
- Citation display mode (footnote vs. tooltip)
- Link text label (e.g. "Visit link")

**How citation markers work:**
- The Topics record includes a field listing active citation numbers (e.g. `"1, 2, 3"`)
- The body text contains inline `[1]`, `[2]` markers written directly in the Airtable rich text field
- The widget matches those markers to Citations collection rows and renders them interactively
- If a citation has no URL, only the info text is shown (no broken link)
- Citation-only lines that Airtable Markdown places on separate lines are automatically merged back inline with the preceding paragraph

**Known rendering behaviors:**
- The description field is treated as **Markdown** and converted to HTML (bold, italic, links, lists, etc.)
- If a citation marker appears in the text but has no matching record, it renders as a plain styled `[n]` label
- Citation info and link text are always **plain text** (no HTML injection risk)