topic Re: Table of Contents Not Visible in Databricks Notebook in Data Engineering

Table of Contents Not Visible in Databricks Notebook

adhi_databricks — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:06:25 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing a strange issue with one of my Databricks notebooks — the Table of Contents (ToC) pane is no longer visible. It used to show up on the left, but now it’s missing only for this specific notebook.

What I’ve observed so far:

The ToC is visible in other notebooks.
If I clone the notebook, the Table of Contents reappears in the cloned version.
I’ve tried refreshing the page, restarting the browser, and clearing the cache, but it doesn’t fix the issue in the original notebook.

This seems to be happening repeatedly, and cloning every time isn’t ideal.

Has anyone else faced this issue? Is this a known bug or is there a setting I might’ve unintentionally changed?

Any help or workaround would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Re: Table of Contents Not Visible in Databricks Notebook

Raghavan93513 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:17:12 GMT

Hi @adhi_databricks,
Good day!

To enable the Table of Contents, click the icon located at the upper left of the notebook, which is positioned in the left sidebar.

Hope this resolves your issue.

Re: Table of Contents Not Visible in Databricks Notebook

adhi_databricks — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:19:48 GMT

Hey @Raghavan93513 ,
Thanks for your response.

The issue I'm facing is that the markdown text in our notebooks isn't appearing in the table of contents. I can see the table of contents panel on the left side of the notebook, but it doesn’t display any content.

Re: Table of Contents Not Visible in Databricks Notebook

Raghavan93513 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:47:05 GMT

Hi @adhi_databricks.,
Good day!

Please check for the probable errors:

It is a Code cell, not markdown - Change to markdown cell, then add heading
Incorrect heading syntax - Try using # Heading or #Heading and then refresh the page
No headings/titles - Add a markdown heading or cell title
UI rendering issue - Clear cache, Refresh browser and re-run notebook.

If none of these help, please consider raising a support ticket with screenshots, as this may indicate a UI bug.