Ipython Markdown Display Widget doesn't render in Jupyter-book

The ipython display widget doesn’t render in my jupyter book HTML output. It does in my sphinx material.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Create a markdown table and try to display it with the ipython widget.

from jinja2 import Environment, BaseLoader

rendered_report_header_table="""# Report

## Sample-1

---

|  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Patient Name:** | Smith, Todd | **Ordered By:** | Dr. Who |
| **Date of Birth:** | 12/11/1977 | **Sample Collection Date:** | 12/9/2020 | 
| **Gender**: | Male | **Sample Accession Date:** | 12/9/2020 |
| **Sample Type:** | blood | **Report Data:** | 12/9/2020 |
| **Sample ID/MRN:** | 1234567 | | |
| **Test Accession:** | BRCA122345 | | | 
| **Test Ordered:** | BRCA2 sequencing & Deletion/Duplication analysis | | | 
| **Test Code:** | ABCD | | |
| **Test Indictation** | Patient has family history of breast cancer. | | |

---

## Result: Postitive

---

| Gene   | Variant   | Zygosity     | Variant Classification   |
|:-------|:----------|:-------------|:-------------------------|
| BRCA2  | c.10G>T   | Heterozygous | Likely Pathogenic        |
| BRCA2  | c.-172A>G | Heterozygous | Unknown                  |
"""

# This doesn't work in the jupyterhub output
from IPython.display import display, Markdown, Latex, HTML
display(Markdown(rendered_report_header_table))

Expected behavior

I expect the Markdown widget to display. It does display correctly when using sphinx + nbsphinx +the sphinx-material theme. It also displays correctly in the jupyter notebook itself.

A link to your documentation repository.

Github Repo Link to Docs in Sphinx

$ jupyter-book build mybook
ERROR ...

Environment

• Python Version [e.g. 3.7.1]:
• Package versions or output of jupyter-book --version:
• Operating System:

OS: Linux
Python 3.7.5
Jupyter Book: 0.8.3
MyST-NB: 0.10.1
Sphinx Book Theme: 0.0.39
MyST-Parser: 0.12.10
Jupyter-Cache: 0.4.1
NbClient: 0.5.1

Additional context

Nothing else really.

[chrisjsewell]

Note that background-color: transparent has already been removed in a previous request

[jerowe]

@dirkroorda have you tried using sphinx and nbsphinx? That’s what I’m using for my project that requires displaying the markdown widgets. I’m sure jupyter-book will be able to display IPython display widgets.

@chrisjsewell , I’m not sure if this is an option (or just a stupid suggestion 😉 ) but is it possible to use nbsphinx for the ipynb notebooks and the myst-parser for markdown files? Then my markdown widgets would display correctly in the notebooks, and I would get the nice markdown syntax!