Hide cell contents#

You can use Jupyter Notebook cell tags to control some of the behavior of the rendered notebook.1

Hide code cells#

You can use cell tags to control the content hidden with code cells at the cell level. Add the following tags to a cell’s metadata to control what to hide in code cells:

hide-input tag to hide the cell inputs
hide-output to hide the cell outputs
hide-cell to hide the entire cell

For example, we’ll show cells with each below.

Here is a cell with a hide-input tag. Click the “toggle” button to the right to show it.

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Here’s a cell with a hide-output tag:

# This cell has a hide-output tag
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
points =ax.scatter(*data, c=data[0], s=data[0])

And the following cell has a hide-cell tag:

You can control the hide/show prompts by using the code_prompt_show and code_prompt_hide configuration options. {type} will be replaced with content, source, or outputs, depending on the hide tag. See the Configuration section for more details.

```{code-cell} ipython3
:tags: [hide-cell]
:mystnb:
:  code_prompt_show: "My show prompt"
:  code_prompt_hide: "My hide prompt"

print("hallo world")
```

Hide markdown cells#

You cannot hide an entire markdown cell, but you can hide sections of markdown content by using roles and directives.

For information on how to hide / toggle markdown content in Sphinx, see either the sphinx-togglebutton documentation or the sphinx-design dropdowns documentation.

Remove parts of cells#

Sometimes, you want to entirely remove parts of a cell so that it doesn’t make it into the output at all.

To do this at the global level, use the nb_remove_code_source or nb_remove_code_outputs configuration options, or at a per-file level, e.g.

---
mystnb:
  remove_code_source: true
  remove_code_outputs: true
---

See the configuration section for more details.

At a per-cell level you can use the same tag pattern described above, but with the word remove_ instead of hide_. Use the following tags:

remove-input tag to remove the cell inputs
remove-output to remove the cell outputs
remove-cell to remove the entire cell

Here is a cell with a remove-input tag. The inputs will not make it into the page at all.

Here’s a cell with a remove-output tag:

# This cell has a remove-output tag
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
points = ax.scatter(*data, c=data[0], s=data[0])

And the following cell has a remove-cell tag (there should be nothing below, since the cell will be gone).

1: This notebook can be downloaded as hiding.ipynb and hiding.md

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Hide cell contents#

Hide code cells#

Hide markdown cells#

Remove parts of cells#