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hakan_brovell
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5 months ago
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Notebooks not displaying markdown cells

I have added markdown cells in a notebook and it worked as aspected last week, but when I opened the notebook today the cells isn't displaying the text inside. The only thing that is displaying is two gray lines. Anybody having the same issue?

 

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  • svenchio's avatar
    svenchio
    Super User
    5 months ago

    Hi hakan_brovell, I noticed that the double lines you are seeing appear when you convert your cell from code to markdown (check on a new notebook) that suggests that there's a transition in code, and yes, as shown here, markdown had slighly different structure than code cell, so a theory is that, somehow, the code behind your markdown some how got corrupted preventing the cell to display properly. 

     

     

    So, what I suggest is the follow: 

    #1. Connect your workspace to a git branch, this will materialize whatever content in your notebook to its notebook-content.py 

    #2. Verify the conent of the markdown cell, it should look like the one shown above for an emty cell, look very closely for any spaces in between cells, the UI is very picky with this. 

    #3. If there's ANYTHING in the cell, it will be shown in the code and the wort case is that you will be able to rescue the content! Best case, you will fix the cell 😊🤞 

     

    Hope you find this plan reasonable to follow, let me know how it works ... best of lucks 

     

     

     

  • GauravLZ888's avatar
    GauravLZ888
    Advocate I
    5 months ago

    Hi hakan_brovell , 

     

    I tried to reproduce but could not so far, but overall it appears this is a rendering glitch within the Microsoft Fabric UI. you may try the following steps:

    1. Forced Re-render
    Double-click the area between the gray lines to enter Edit Mode.
    Once the cursor appears, press Shift + Enter to see if the cell re-renders into Display Mode.

    2. Session & Browser Refresh
    Hard Refresh: Press Ctrl + F5 (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + R (Mac) to clear the session cache for the page.

    3. Verify Data Integrity :
    To confirm the text hasn't been deleted:

    • Export the notebook as an .ipynb file.

    • Open the file in a local text editor (like Notepad or VS Code).

    • Search for your markdown content. If the text is present in the JSON, the issue is strictly a display bug in the Fabric portal and not data loss.

    hope this helps!

  • AntoineW's avatar
    AntoineW
    Super User
    5 months ago

    Hi hakan_brovell,

    Seems like a bug sometimes you can have notebooks UI issues, a display problem, maybe the cell is simply in "collapsed" in all your notebook :

    1) try to double-clicking the area between the two gray lines forces the Markdown editor to refresh.

    2) Also, try to stop the spark session and refresh the entire page may help.

     

    Sorry for that and hope it can help you !

  • hakan_brovell's avatar
    hakan_brovell
    Regular Visitor
    5 months ago

    Hi @AntoineW I have tried all that and clear cookies and restart of the browser but hasn't helped yet. 

  • v-dineshya's avatar
    v-dineshya
    Community Support
    5 months ago

    Hi hakan_brovell ,

    Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.

     

    Hi svenchio  and GauravLZ888 , Thank you for your prompt responses.

     

    Hi hakan_brovell  ,  could you please try the proposed solutions shared by  svenchio  and  GauravLZ888 ? Let us know if you’re still facing the same issue we’ll be happy to assist you further.

     

    Regards,

    Dinesh