# How to programmatically create a markdown cell?

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**Category:** JupyterLab\
**Tags:** how-to, help-wanted\
**Created:** [April 28, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-programmatically-create-a-markdown-cell/14062 "2022-04-28T21:44:27Z")\
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The line between client and kernel is intentionally fairly austere: the linked code works today in e.g. JupyterLab and the IPython terminal app… but probably not nbconvert, for example. I would also probably not expect this to be extended in the future.

One approach to bridging the two is a client-specific tool such as [ipylab](https://github.com/jtpio/ipylab): it can run any jupyterlab command… but there might not be one for “new markdown cell”.

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