Sometimes jupyter lab's table of contents blanks itself.
I have a long running notebook that takes a long time to run in notebook. If I have it open for too long the table of contents side bar becomes blank. This is quite annoying, because I like to use the table of contents to find things in a notebook. How can I get the table of contents back without restarting? Is there a way of getting a sidebar table of contents which won't do this?
I'm using jupyter lab version 3.4.8.
Workarounds
- Finally found "heading menu / sidebar" that works with firefox a11y-outline . This uses a modal screen rather than a sidebar and seems to work out.
- In another stack overflow question (can't find it right now). I found someone suggested changing the "Include cell output in headings" Advanced > Table of contents > "Include cell output in headings" to off - this fixed the bug
Approaches I tried
- Generating the toc manually this is a bunch of effort however
- I tried the firefox headings map extension to work around firefox - that looked like it would quite well but it appears to break the display of jupyter so that the panes are too small. I get the same problem in outline sidebar and page structure. I wish jupyter was less clever... Skip to headings and landmarks does not break the layout in the same way - but also does not work.
