Ignore cell on export

[AlbertoFabbri93]

Hi, in my Marimo notebook I have the following cell:

Interactive([sdata])

which launches a separate program (the interactive viewer Napari).
When I try to export the notebook it gets stuck on this cell. Is there a way I can tell Marimo to ignore it?

[lazizbekravshanov]

You can disable that cell — marimo skips disabled cells (and any cells downstream of them) whenever it runs the notebook, including on export, so it won't get stuck launching Napari.

In the editor, open the cell's context menu (the ⋮ in the cell's top-right, or right-click the cell) and pick "Disable cell". marimo persists that as @app.cell(disabled=True) in the notebook file, and marimo export html (also md/ipynb) will then run straight past it.

One thing to watch: guarding the call with mo.app_meta().mode won't help for export — marimo export html runs the notebook in edit mode to capture outputs, so mode is still "edit" there. Disabling the cell is the reliable way to keep it out of the export run.