# Disappearing cell toolbar in Jupyter Notebook cells with long inputs

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/disappearing-cell-toolbar-in-jupyter-notebook-cells-with-long-inputs/32678>\
**Category:** JupyterLab\
**Tags:** jupyterlab\
**Created:** [February 10, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/disappearing-cell-toolbar-in-jupyter-notebook-cells-with-long-inputs/32678 "2025-02-10T19:25:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shrestha\_Vatsala](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/shrestha_vatsala/32/17323_2.png) [@Shrestha\_Vatsala](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/Shrestha_Vatsala)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/disappearing-cell-toolbar-in-jupyter-notebook-cells-with-long-inputs/32678/1 "2025-02-10T19:25:58Z")

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### Bug description

Users have reported that when cell inputs in jupyter notebooks become too long, the options for inserting and re-ordering cells disappear (cell toolbar). Specifically, there might be a character limit that triggers this behavior.

### How to reproduce

1. Open a jupyter notebook and keep typing until the cell toolbar disappears

#### Expected behaviour

Collapse the toolbar when the character limit is met instead of entirely taking it away.

#### Actual behaviour

Before adding the 0

 ![Screenshot 2025-01-27 at 3.25.51 PM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/3X/f/1/f1d480c56a42d81702c2f5f1cc33b63b7a391079.png)

After adding the 0

 ![Screenshot 2025-01-27 at 3.25.05 PM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/3X/5/7/57d6bd66c38fd4a8b5a085406c2cb31ffa8053fb.png)

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**Author:** ![krassowski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/krassowski/32/1685_2.png) [@krassowski](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/krassowski)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/disappearing-cell-toolbar-in-jupyter-notebook-cells-with-long-inputs/32678/2 "2025-02-11T10:42:15Z")

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> Collapse the toolbar when the character limit is met instead of entirely taking it away.

I agree - I proposed this three years ago (time flies) and it is tracked in [Controls to expand cell toolbars that overlap cell contents · Issue #12223 · jupyterlab/jupyterlab · GitHub](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/12223)

If you have a GitHub account, can you leave a 👍 on the issue above?

> there might be a character limit that triggers this behavior.

There is a bespoke logic checking overlap to ensure your text is not occluded by the cell toolbar

> the options for inserting and re-ordering cells disappear

To insert cell below/above you can use `B`/`A` shortcuts when in command mode. To move cells you can use Ctrl + Shift + Arrow Down/Up or drag them using the area to the left of the cell.