Cells disappear when selected

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I have students running Jupyter notebooks locally in JupyterLab. Some students – all using Mac OSX (Big Sur 11.6.5 in the one I’ve been able to confirm) – find that when they click inside a cell to select, the entire cell turns white and they cannot see the contents. They cannot modify cells because they can’t see what they’re doing when they select them.

Student reports that if they run the selected cell, it sometimes reappears, and executes without error. They also report that clicking to the left of the cell before clicking within the cell area prevents the problem.

Version information:
IPython 8.5.1
ipykernel 6.15.3
ipywidgets not installed
jupyter_client 7.3.4
jupyter_server 1.18.1
jupyterlab 3.4.7
nbclient 0.6.8
nbconvert 7.0.0
nbformat 5.5.0
notebook 6.4.12
qtconsole not installed
traitlets 5.4.0

Is this a possible bug? Suggested fixes?

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Just wanted to bump this. We also have a student who is running into the same issue. Tried both Safari and Chrome and no change.

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that sucks this is happening for y’all.

@lcrown could you provide some of the following information:

  • Operating System and version:
  • Browser and version:
  • JupyterLab version:

if possible: Paste the output from running jupyter troubleshoot from the command line here.
You may want to sanitize the paths in the output.

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Sounds like we’re up to two students now :frowning:

  • MacOS 12.6
  • Safari 16.1
  • JupyterLab 3.6.1
  • JupyterHub 1.5.0 20230324202900
    • using jupyter/scipy-notebook container
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Still happening for me running Jupyter in a docker stack, and connecting with Safari 16.6 and MacOS Ventura 13.5. The Jupyter version is 3.5.0

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