# Feature Request: Hiding Cell

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-request-hiding-cell/2252>\
**Category:** Feedback\
**Created:** [August 11, 2019, 8:54am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-request-hiding-cell/2252 "2019-08-11T08:54:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![bgchen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/bgchen/32/784_2.png) [@bgchen](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/bgchen)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/feature-request-hiding-cell/2252/3 "2019-08-11T12:18:45Z")

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

> [@View-only mode?](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/view-only-mode/447/7):
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> 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…

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