Feature Request: Hiding Cell

[bgchen]

For notebooks hosted on observablehq.com itself, it’s unlikely that a way to completely hide cells will be added, see this post:

View-only mode?

I’ve been referring to these as “inspector cells”. All cells are defined by code, and this code is hidden by default; it’s only shown if the cell is pinned or focused. An inspector cell is any cell that doesn’t return DOM. When a cell returns some non-DOM value such as a number, string, object or function, this is displayed by Observable’s built-in inspector (much like a browser’s developer tools). There’s no way to hide a cell entirely, and that’s mostly deliberate: we want the code to be acce…