diff --git a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/interactive-editor.tsx b/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/interactive-editor.tsx
index fdca6a1e1bd..49b70b39332 100644
--- a/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/interactive-editor.tsx
+++ b/client/src/templates/Challenges/components/interactive-editor.tsx
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@ const InteractiveEditor = ({ files }: Props) => {
     return files.some(f => f.ext === ext);
   }
 
-  const showConsole = got('js') || got('ts');
+  const hasHTML = got('html');
+  const hasJavaScript = got('js') || got('ts') || got('jsx') || got('tsx');
+
+  const showConsole = hasJavaScript && hasHTML;
+  const layout = hasHTML ? 'preview' : 'console';
   const freeCodeCampDarkSyntax = {
     ...freeCodeCampDark.syntax,
     punctuation: '#ffff00',
@@ -84,7 +88,7 @@ const InteractiveEditor = ({ files }: Props) => {
           editorWidthPercentage: 60,
           showConsole: showConsole,
           showConsoleButton: showConsole,
-          layout: got('html') ? 'preview' : 'console',
+          layout: layout,
           showLineNumbers: true
         }}
       />
diff --git a/e2e/interactive-editor.spec.ts b/e2e/interactive-editor.spec.ts
index 02f94ee81ef..0961ba5925d 100644
--- a/e2e/interactive-editor.spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/interactive-editor.spec.ts
@@ -178,4 +178,68 @@ test.describe('Interactive Editor', () => {
       page.evaluate(() => localStorage.getItem('showInteractiveEditor'))
     ).resolves.toBe('false');
   });
+
+  test('should hide console panel in JS-only interactive editor to prevent output duplication', async ({
+    page
+  }) => {
+    await page.route(
+      `**/page-data${challengePath}/page-data.json`,
+      async route => {
+        const response = await route.fetch();
+        const body = await response.text();
+        const pageData = JSON.parse(body) as PageData;
+
+        pageData.result.data.challengeNode.challenge.title = challengeTitle;
+        pageData.result.data.challengeNode.challenge.nodules = [
+          {
+            type: 'paragraph',
+            data: '<p>This challenge has only JavaScript code.</p>'
+          },
+          {
+            type: 'interactiveEditor',
+            data: [
+              {
+                contents: 'console.log("Hello from JS-only editor");',
+                ext: 'js',
+                name: 'script-1',
+                contentsHtml:
+                  '<pre><code class="language-javascript">console.log("Hello from JS-only editor");</code></pre>'
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        ];
+
+        await route.fulfill({
+          contentType: 'application/json',
+          body: JSON.stringify(pageData)
+        });
+      }
+    );
+
+    await page.goto(challengePath);
+
+    await expect(
+      page.getByRole('heading', { name: challengeTitle })
+    ).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(
+      page.getByText('This challenge has only JavaScript code.')
+    ).toBeVisible();
+
+    await expect(
+      page
+        .locator('pre code')
+        .filter({ hasText: 'console.log("Hello from JS-only editor");' })
+    ).toBeVisible();
+
+    // Click the toggle button to show interactive editor
+    await page
+      .getByRole('button', {
+        name: /interactive editor/i
+      })
+      .click();
+
+    // Check that the console is visible and the console wrapper is hidden
+    await expect(page.locator('.sp-console')).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('.sp-console-wrapper')).not.toBeVisible();
+  });
 });