# Superscript Subscript - Solved with workaround

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript-solved-with-workaround/57861>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [October 14, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript-solved-with-workaround/57861 "2026-10-14T12:39:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Flash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Flash](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Flash)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript-solved-with-workaround/57861/1 "2026-10-14T12:39:12Z")

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Good Morning, has anyone figured out how to add superscript and subscript to text. I will be using this a lot for the next section of my website. I saw this is the standard markup in tailwind but so far I have not needed to add html inline with my text. Thanks in advance.

`<sup class="align-top text-xs">2</sup>`

`EDIT: TL;DR: This is a workaround solution. ` [Superscript Subscript - Solved with workaround - #6 by annebourdon](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript/57861/6)

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**Author:** ![Flash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Flash](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Flash)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript-solved-with-workaround/57861/2 "2026-10-14T12:49:21Z")

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Maybe add the option to the typography component? That would be very nice. 🙂

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**Author:** ![chet](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/chet/32/35396_2.png) [@chet](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/chet)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript-solved-with-workaround/57861/3 "2026-10-14T13:27:04Z")

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I had AI generate a list of superscripts and I copy and pasted them into the Text component.

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**Author:** ![Flash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Flash](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Flash)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 3:20pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript-solved-with-workaround/57861/4 "2026-10-14T15:20:54Z")

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Hoping for a non AI solution and a bunch of copy-paste. Kinda defeats the point of WYSIWYG application.

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**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript-solved-with-workaround/57861/5 "2026-10-14T18:45:17Z")

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This is something that really should be added to the typography component, as it is sorely missed.

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**Author:** ![annebourdon](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/annebourdon/32/2391_2.png) [@annebourdon](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/annebourdon)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript-solved-with-workaround/57861/6 "2026-10-14T20:45:06Z")

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Hi @Flash,

This what I do in a text or typography component :  
I select the word or letter I want to be superscript and, in the sidebar-inspector I add two tailwind-classes : “align-super text-xs”  
and for subscript : “align-sub text-xs”.

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**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 1:37am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript-solved-with-workaround/57861/7 "2026-10-15T01:37:55Z")

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Yes, this is the solution I use as well; unless it is Markdown text, then I use the HTML approach.

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**Author:** ![Flash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Flash](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Flash)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/superscript-subscript-solved-with-workaround/57861/8 "2026-10-15T02:11:06Z")

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Thank you all. I can confirm this works and is a solution. However I have thousands of footnotes, this is not an elegant way to do it. If I automate it with html or markdown I lose the use of many of the other tools Elements has. Hopefully one day it will be built in and with a keystroke short cut.