# How to programmatically create a markdown cell?

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-programmatically-create-a-markdown-cell/14062>\
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**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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**Author:** ![CatChenal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@CatChenal](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/CatChenal)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-programmatically-create-a-markdown-cell/14062/3 "2022-04-28T22:25:36Z")

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Thanks for your prompt response!  
It seems to me that the outcome of `get_ipython().set_next_input` is to create a new **CODE** cell by default.  
How difficult would it be to amend the `set_next_input` method to include a `cell_type` parameter, which would be ‘code\_cell’ by default, along with `markdown_cell` and `raw_cell` as the other valid cell types?

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