Separation of content, anyone? Try as an experiment putting in the HTML version of the document a tag such as blah blah blah <note1> blah blah and in your header a link to an external style sheet (CSS2) In that external style sheet, put something like note1 { content:after "Your comment here"; } or perhaps content: url(note1.html); Of course, this will only work in a CSS2 compliant browser, so for now that's everybody except IE.