diff --git a/examples/rise.css b/examples/rise.css
index dc4779b5..c10189b8 100644
--- a/examples/rise.css
+++ b/examples/rise.css
@@ -61,3 +61,13 @@ div.cell.code_cell.rendered, div.input_area {
 div.text_cell_render.rendered_html {
     color: #5050b0;
 }
+
+/*
+ * this is to void xarray's html output to show the fallback textual representation
+ * see also
+   * xarray.md and 
+   * https://github.com/damianavila/RISE/issues/594
+ */
+.reveal pre.xr-text-repr-fallback {
+    display: none;
+}
diff --git a/examples/xarray.md b/examples/xarray.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f481d1e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/xarray.md
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+jupytext:
+  text_representation:
+    extension: .md
+    format_name: myst
+    format_version: 0.13
+    jupytext_version: 1.11.1
+kernelspec:
+  display_name: Python 3
+  language: python
+  name: python3
+---
+
+```{code-cell} ipython3
+import xarray as xr
+```
+
+this is to illustrate a useful patch for dealing with xarray's `_repr_html_()` 
+
+see also
+
+* https://github.com/damianavila/RISE/issues/594
+* `rise.css` in this folder
+
+```{code-cell} ipython3
+ds = xr.tutorial.open_dataset('air_temperature')
+ds
+```