How to avoid output into scrollable frames in jupyter notebook?

Question

Suddenly, output for statements started to appear inside scrollable frames.

I was playing with only one parameter

pd.options.display.max_rows = 1000

but after experiments, I commented this line out and restarted the kernel.

Nevertheless, one of my outputs appears inside frame.

How to avoid this?

Does resetting this to default by `pd.reset_option("display.max_rows")` help? — Nickil Maveli, Jan 13 '17 at 18:35
`pd.options.displays.max_rows` just controls when `pandas` truncates output with a `...`. Scrollable frames are a part of Jupyter when the output for a given cell is long. — Randy, Jan 13 '17 at 21:56

score 58 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 05 '20 at 17:03

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You can just use mouse to click on the outside of the output Frame to toggle between scrolling, it worked for me. More precisely, you have to click the square to the left of your output (see image).

Single click will toggle scroll mode, double click will hide output completely.

edited Nov 05 '20 at 17:03

user74696c

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answered Aug 31 '19 at 17:26

Bharat

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This also worked for me. Its not obvious. Clicking on the out sidebar toggles the scrollbar for that frame. – Peter Moore Jul 29 '20 at 20:24
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This is a very smart solution! You don't need to change any settings of Notebook! – U2647 Feb 05 '21 at 23:54
Worked for me too. All the time I've been using Jupyter Notebooks, and I didn't know this. Very nice. – user3731622 Mar 01 '23 at 02:52

score 46 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '17 at 03:36

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To disable auto-scrolling, execute this javascript in a notebook cell before other cells are executed:

%%javascript
IPython.OutputArea.prototype._should_scroll = function(lines) {
    return false;
}

There is also a jupyter notebook extension, autoscroll, you can use for a nicer UI.

answered Jan 14 '17 at 03:36

mtd

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Is there a way to ENABLE auto-scrolling again after disabling using this javascript? – Jianyu Apr 16 '20 at 14:53
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@Jianyu to ENABLE, you could just change `return false` to `return true` – mtd Jun 12 '20 at 15:50

score 13 · Answer 3 · answered May 11 '20 at 14:16

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I stumbled across the same problem, a scrollbar appeared for outputs out of nowhere.

Just go to- Cell > All Outputs > Toggle Scrolling (On the Menu Bar) and outputs will go back to no scrolling.

answered May 11 '20 at 14:16

Vaibhav Chobisa

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 28 '21 at 09:13

The problem might be caused by metadata in the jupyter .ipynb file. In my case the cell content looks like

{
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "metadata": {
    "scrolled": true
   },
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "plot_timecourse(time, v_soma)"
   ]
  },

By just removing the scroll part, i.e. by removing the metadata:

{
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "metadata": {}
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "plot_timecourse(time, v_soma)"
   ]
  },

fixed the issue of the weird scroll box.

How to avoid output into scrollable frames in jupyter notebook?

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