# Blank lines at top of console?

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/blank-lines-at-top-of-console/39487>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [October 29, 2022, 3:30am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/blank-lines-at-top-of-console/39487 "2022-10-29T03:30:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![spambot9000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/spambot9000/32/12568_2.png) [@spambot9000](https://discourse.processing.org/u/spambot9000)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 3:30am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/blank-lines-at-top-of-console/39487/1 "2022-10-29T03:30:27Z")

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Does anyone know:

- Why my Processing IDE console (macOS) always has ten blank lines at the top before displaying any `print` output?
- How to remove this blank space?

Just wondering,  
sb9k

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**Author:** ![MuddyGardener](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/muddygardener/32/1719_2.png) [@MuddyGardener](https://discourse.processing.org/u/MuddyGardener)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/blank-lines-at-top-of-console/39487/2 "2023-08-02T13:04:35Z")

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There’s some discussion on the old forum that refers to some _other_ old discussion of this topic on the old forum [https://forum.processing.org/one/topic/the-processing-console.html](https://forum.processing.org/one/topic/the-processing-console.html) - but the link to that main discussion no longer works. Apparently, according to this missing discussion, the verdict was that it isn’t possible to fix.