Instead of rendering the actual widgets, it's just rendering text labels. See screenshot below. import ipywidgets as widgets from IPython.display import display label = widgets.Label(value='Hello!') display(label) >>> Label(value='Hello!') Edit The above works for me on my local computer, but not on a server. Both are running Python 3.6, jupyter-core==4.6.3 Edit 2 In response to the question by @adhg, here's the output of widgets.InsSlider() (in his question, (s)he had a typo Ins instead of Int) Continue reading...