How to insert footnote with latex \input?

Question

I have two tex files and use the command \input to include the table on my main file as follows:

Main.tex

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{inconsolata}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}

\usepackage{minted}
\usepackage{listings}


\begin{document}

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\input{table}

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\end{document}

Table.tex

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\caption{My caption}
\label{my-label}
\begin{tabular}{|l|}
\hline
\rowcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0} 
\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\cellcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}\textbf{Saucelabs\footnote{\textit{Saucelabs}: \url{https://wiki.saucelabs.com/display/DOCS/Test+Configuration+Options/}}}} \\ \hline
Browser Name                                                        \\ \hline
Browser Version                                                     \\ \hline
Platform Name                                                       \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

Result

How do I that the footnote in the table header to appear on the main page?

Answer 1

Your MWE did not work for me, so I commented out \usepackage{minted}. The easiest way for me to solve your problem was to split the footnote-order in two orders: \footnotemark and \footnotetext{Some text to indicate a reference.}

%In main.tex add:
\input{table}\footnotetext{{\textit{Saucelabs}: \url{https://wiki.saucelabs.com/display/DOCS/Test+Configuration+Options/}}}

%In table.tex change to:
\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\cellcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}\textbf{Saucelabs\footnotemark}} \\ \hline

Perhaps there is a nicer way in achieving this. But for a quick solution it might work. If your are using several different footnotes, you can call an argument for \footnotemark[17] and \footnotetext[17]{Some Text that will be footnote with the number 17.}

Best

Answer 2

Is the following what you intended (please note that the question is unrelated to \input command, see below):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\begin{document}

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\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\caption{My caption}
\label{my-label}
\begin{tabular}{|l|}
\hline
\rowcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}
\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\cellcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}\textbf{Saucelabs}\footnotemark}      \\ \hline
Browser Name                                                                       \\ \hline
Browser Version                                                                    \\ \hline
Platform Name                                                                      \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

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\footnotetext{\url{https://wiki.saucelabs.com/display/DOCS/Test+Configuration+Options/}}
\end{document}

Same example with an \input command

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{url,filecontents}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\begin{filecontents}{ifil}
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\caption{My caption}
\label{my-label}
\begin{tabular}{|l|}
\hline
\rowcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}
\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\cellcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}\textbf{Saucelabs}\footnotemark}      \\ \hline
Browser Name                                                                       \\ \hline
Browser Version                                                                    \\ \hline
Platform Name                                                                      \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}

Eos ea harum labores scaevola, mea autem vivendo interesset.

\input{ifil}

Euismod meliore duo te, at vivendo officiis per. 

\footnotetext{\url{https://wiki.saucelabs.com/display/DOCS/Test+Configuration+Options/}}
\end{document}