# Plot.show() in Quarto notebook after if statement is not showing

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**Created:** [September 10, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://community.seqera.io/t/plot-show-in-quarto-notebook-after-if-statement-is-not-showing/1175 "2024-09-10T07:05:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.seqera.io/t/plot-show-in-quarto-notebook-after-if-statement-is-not-showing/1175/4 "2024-10-28T14:08:58Z")

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Thanks again to bring this up and sorry for not getting back to your question sooner.  
As we discussed in person, you are correct that `display` is needed to be called on `show` output unless it’s the last line in a cell. Jupyter automatically displays the output of the last line it called, but if it’s within a conditional, the output will be discarded.

Clarified that in the docs with [Document use of display to show plots in notebooks by vladsavelyev · Pull Request #2938 · MultiQC/MultiQC · GitHub](https://github.com/MultiQC/MultiQC/pull/2938)

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