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Adding Markdown to notebooks

Annotation in Jupyter and Google Colaboratory (Colab) Notebooks

Notebooks are specifically structured files that embed code and annotations within the same document and that can be rendered for easy viewing in web browsers.

Notebook filenames typically end with the extension .ipynb (for iPython Notebook).

This extensions is important for automatic rendering, such as within Git repositories hosted on GitHub. See the original announcement of notebook rendering on GitHub.

For more details on the types of things you can do with markup within notebooks, see documentation for markdown cells


In Jupyter Notebooks, selecting Markdown or Code cells looks like this:

and once they have been executed, they look like this:


In Google Colab Notebooks, selecting Markdown or Code cells looks like this:

and once they have been executed, they look like this: