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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook
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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

by Cyrille Rossant
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
12h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Customizing the CSS style in the notebook

In this recipe, we show how to customize the CSS in the notebook interface and in an exported HTML notebook.

Getting ready

You are expected to know a bit of CSS3 for this recipe. You can find many tutorials online (see the references at the end of this recipe).

You also need to download the Notebook dataset from the book's website (http://ipython-books.github.io), and extract it in the current directory.

How to do it...

  1. First, we create a new IPython profile to avoid cluttering our default profile as follows:
    In [1]: !ipython profile create custom_css
  2. In Python, we retrieve the path to this profile (~/.ipython) and to the custom.css file (empty by default).
    In [2]: dir = !ipython locate profile custom_css dir ...
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