Using footmisc package in tcolorbox environment

Question

I am trying to create a footnote symbol * in a tcolorbox environment and the result is not the symbol nor at the bottom of the page instead within the box!

\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage[symbol]{footmisc}

\begin{document}
\begin{tcolorbox}[colback=yellow!20!white,colframe=green!40!gray]
\color{green!40!gray}{\large {\bf Definitions}}\color{black} \ \ \ {\bf 
Strategy 
for Sketching Graphs}\footnote[1]{This strategy is refined further, for 
rational 
functions, in Section 2.3.}

\begin{enumerate}
\item[{\bf a)}]
\item[{\bf b)}]
\item[{\bf c)}]
\item[{\bf d)}]
\item[{\bf e)}]
\item[{\bf f)}]
\end{enumerate}

\end{tcolorbox}
\end{document}

This outputs:

First of all tcolorbox is not reading the correct symbol for '1' in the footmisc package nor is the footnote at the bottom of the page. Please advise!

tcolorbox does not claim that footnotes appear at the bottom of the page. It's the same issue you would have with footnotes in tabular environment. Besides that, your document is not compilable — , Jan 04 '19 at 14:57
Unrelated to your question, but please note that the \it, \bf, etc. font macros are deprecated because they do not use the new font selection scheme introduced with LaTeX2e. Please use {\itshape ..}, {\bfseries ..} or \textit{..}, \textbf{..} instead. See Does it matter if I use \textit or \it, \bfseries or \bf, etc. and Will two-letter font style commands (\bf, \it, …) ever be resurrected in LaTeX? for more information. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Jan 04 '19 at 15:00
Related: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/412716/print-footnote-outside-of-box and https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376682/arabic-footnotes-in-tcolorbox — , Jan 04 '19 at 15:00
tcolorbox uses mpfootnote actually, that's why it does use the correct symbol — , Jan 04 '19 at 15:08

zetaeffe · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-04T15:11:30.283

You may use the \footnotemark and \footnotetext macros:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{enumitem}

\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage[symbol]{footmisc}

\begin{document}
\begin{tcolorbox}[colback=yellow!20!white,colframe=green!40!gray]
    \textcolor{green!40!gray}{\large \textbf{Definitions}}
    \quad\textbf{Strategy for Sketching Graphs}\footnotemark[1]

    \begin{enumerate}[label=\textbf{\alph*)}]
        \item
        \item
        \item
        \item
        \item
        \item
    \end{enumerate}

\end{tcolorbox}
\footnotetext[1]{This strategy is refined further, for 
    rational functions, in Section 2.3.}
\end{document}

Using footmisc package in tcolorbox environment

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