diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f7ace75f58c..09fffdbd6b0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ### Fixed
 - Fix `mpl_to_plotly` not setting `paper_bgcolor` and `plot_bgcolor` from the matplotlib figure and axes backgrounds, so converted figures match the source figure's background colors [[#5285](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/5285)], with thanks to @robertoffmoura for the contribution!
+- Fix rendering issue causing a too-large div when calling `Figure.show()` in Google Colab [[#5718](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/5718)]
 
 ## [7.0.0] - 2026-08-25
 
diff --git a/plotly/io/_base_renderers.py b/plotly/io/_base_renderers.py
index 1b56a0128b1..8d46facd48a 100644
--- a/plotly/io/_base_renderers.py
+++ b/plotly/io/_base_renderers.py
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ def __init__(
     ):
         super(ColabRenderer, self).__init__(
             connected=True,
-            full_html=True,
+            full_html=False,
             global_init=False,
             config=config,
             auto_play=auto_play,
diff --git a/tests/test_io/test_renderers.py b/tests/test_io/test_renderers.py
index 924b22efaec..e6591a0798a 100644
--- a/tests/test_io/test_renderers.py
+++ b/tests/test_io/test_renderers.py
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def test_colab_renderer_show(fig1):
 
     # Check html contents
     html = mock_arg1["text/html"]
-    assert_full_html(html)
+    assert_not_full_html(html)
     assert_html_renderer_connected(html)
 
     # check kwargs