Hiding code blocks or entire cells
It’s possible to control which cells show up in your final book pages. For example, you may want to display a complex visualization to illustrate an idea, but don’t want the page to be cluttered with a large code cell that generated the viz. In other cases, you may want to remove a code cell entirely.
This page explains how to accomplish this with Jupyter Book.
Hiding code cells and displaying a button to show them
Jupyter Books uses notebook cell tags to determine which code cells to hide.
If you add the tag hidecode
to a cell, then Jupyter Book will hide the cell but
display the outputs.
By default, Jupyter Book will display a small button to the right of the
location that used to hold your code cell. If a user clicks the button, your
code cell will be displayed. For example, see the cell below contains the hidecode
tag:
Try clicking the button to the right of the empty spot above!
Note that this button only shows up for cells where you’ve hidden the code:
print("This cell will show up!")
This cell will show up!
You can disable this behavior by using the following configuration option:
use_hide_code_button : false
Hiding the inputs and outputs of a cell
You can also hide both the inputs and outputs of a cell, in which case it won’t show up in your book at all. These cells remain in the notebook file itself, so they’ll show up if readers click on a JupyterHub or Binder link from a page.
To hide both the inputs and outputs of a cell, use the following configuration option:
hide_cell_text : "# YOUR SEARCH TEXT"
When you build your book, Jupyter Book will search each code cell for the text specified
by hide_cell_text
. It will remove any cells that contain this text.