How to show (or hide) the Line Numbers in Jupyter Notebook

# Table of Contents

1. How to show (or hide) the Line Numbers in Jupyter Notebook
2. Show the Line numbers in Jupyter Notebook via the Command Palette
3. Show the Line numbers in Jupyter Notebook via the top menu
4. Show the Line Numbers by default in JupyterLab
5. Show the Line Numbers by default in Jupyter Notebook in VS Code
6. Show the Line numbers in Jupyter Notebook in VS Code using settings.json
7. Showing the line numbers only for the current project in VS Code

# How to show (or hide) the Line Numbers in Jupyter Notebook

The easiest way to show or hide the line numbers in Jupyter Notebook is to:

1. Press the Esc key to enter command mode.
2. Press the L key to toggle the line numbers.

When you press Esc (or Ctrl + M), the left border should become blue. This is when you should press L.

Note that pressing Esc and then L only shows the line numbers for the current cell.

You can press Esc and then press Shift + L to toggle the visibility of the line numbers for all cells.

If you use Jupyter Lab, simply press Shift + L to toggle the visibility of the line numbers.

# Show the Line numbers in Jupyter Notebook via the Command Palette

You can also use the Command Palette to show the line numbers:

1. Press Ctrl + Shift + P (or Cmd + Shift + P on macOS).
2. Type line numbers into the search field.

3. Click on toggle all line numbers if you want to show the line numbers for all cells.

If you only want to show the line numbers for the current cell, click on toggle line numbers.

Notice that there are also hide all line numbers and show all line numbers commands that aren't bound.

Here is a short clip that demonstrates how this works.

If you need to view a list of all of the available keyboard shortcuts:

1. Press Ctrl + m and release the keys.
2. Press h.

# Show the Line numbers in Jupyter Notebook via the top menu

You can also use the top menu to show or hide the line numbers:

1. Click on View in the top menu.
2. Click on Toggle Line Numbers.

# Show the Line Numbers by default in JupyterLab

If you use JupyterLab, you can show the line numbers by default by editing your settings.

1. Click on Settings and then click on Advanced configuration.

2. Click on the JSON settings editor button in the top right corner of the Advanced Settings Editor to show the User Overrides editor.

3. Add the following code in the User Overrides editor to the right.

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{
    "codeCellConfig": {
        "lineNumbers": true
    }
}

# Show the Line Numbers by default in Jupyter Notebook in VS Code

To show the line numbers in Jupyter Notebook in VS Code:

1. Press Ctrl + Shift + P (or Command + Shift + P on macOS).

2. Type user settings and select Preferences: Open User Settings.

You can also open the settings screen by pressing Ctrl + , on Windows and Linux or Cmd + , on macOS.

3. Type notebook line numbers and set the Notebook: Line Numbers setting to on.

4. Restart VS Code if necessary.

# Show the Line numbers in Jupyter Notebook in VS Code using settings.json

You can also show the line numbers in Jupyter Notebook in VS Code by editing your settings.json file.

1. Press Ctrl + Shift + P (or Command + Shift + P on macOS).

2. Type user settings json.

3. Click on Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)

4. Add the following key-value pair to the settings object.

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"notebook.lineNumbers": "on",

Make sure to remove the trailing comma if the property comes last.

# Showing the line numbers only for the current project in VS Code

You can use a local settings.json file if you only want to show the Jupyter Notebook line numbers for the current project.

1. In the root directory of your project, create a .vscode folder.

2. Create a settings.json file in the .vscode folder.

3. Add the following code to your settings.json file.

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{
  "notebook.lineNumbers": "on"
}

Note that any settings you add to your local .vscode/settings.json file only apply to the current project and override any global configuration.

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