[Help] Jupyter Notebook displays all markdown text as bold

fRight8 · February 5, 2022, 2:31pm

Hi! For some strange reason, all my text in markdown is bold and I can’t seem to solve the problem (see image attached). Please advice if there are any solutions to this problem. Appreciate the help!

Things I have tried:

Uninstalling and installing jupyter notebook + restarting the pc (tried this at least 3 times)
clearing cache + cookies in browser (chrome)
clearing font cache in windows
downloading and restoring default fonts on Windows 10
Using microsoft edge instead of google chrome

bollwyvl · February 5, 2022, 3:56pm

Perhaps try:

Right click on the text that is bold but shouldn’t be.
select “Inspect Element”
post a screenshot of the active CSS roles that add font-weight: bold

fRight8 · February 5, 2022, 4:51pm

bollwyvl · February 5, 2022, 11:35pm

make sure the text you expect to not be bold is rendered
click the dropper tool
click on that rendered text
you’re interested in
- the tags surrounding your (rendered) text in the Elements tab
- the Style tab on the far right: something is telling the text to be bold

fRight8 · February 6, 2022, 2:06am

Hi, I looked through some of the tags but did not see the ‘font-weight: bold’ (tried to filter search for the font-weight:bold in the style column and there were no results as well). Am i doing this correctly?

bollwyvl · February 6, 2022, 3:41pm

You can look in the Computed tab, and see if the font-weight is set there, then track down where it might be set… but with that broader screenshot, it looks like almost everything is bold… it’s kind of hard to say how that might have happened. It’s not something I’ve seen before.

fRight8 · February 6, 2022, 4:02pm

Thank you! I checked the computed tab and it seems like the font-weight is not there either. Yeah…I’m not sure what caused it either, it is a strange problem indeed. My other text applications (e.g. google docs, word) all work fine as well.