HTML in Dash

Building Dashboards with Dash and Plotly

Alex Scriven

Data Scientist

HTML Revisited

HTML = language for structuring web content
- Uses 'tags' like Div, H1>H6
Dash uses dash.html components
- H1 tag is .H1()
- Div tag is .Div()

<div>
  <div style=
       "background-color: red; 
        width:250; height:250;">
  </div>
  <div style=
       "background-color: lightblue; 
        width:250; height:250;">
    <h1>This box</h1>
  </div>
</div>

Structuring tags

List of available HTML tags - documentation
Important structuring tags:
- .Br() = New line break
- .Img() = Insert an image

Lists in HTML Dash

.Ul() \ .Ol() & .Li() = Create lists
- .Ul() for unordered list (bullet-points, like these!)
- .Ol() for ordered list (numbered-points)
- .Li() for each list element

Inserting a company logo

app.layout = [

  html.Img(src='www.website.com/logo.png'),
  html.H1("Our Sales Dashboard")

]

A screenshot of the top left of a chrome browser where the URL has the server address in it. The browser has an image of a company logo, a ping diamond that notes E-com global. Below this is a title noting 'Our Sales Dashboard'

Text tags

Set and format text content

.P() or .Span() = Insert plain text
- Accept a children argument (list of text, .P() or .Span())
.B() = Bold some text
.I() = Italicize some text

HTML text tags in Dash

Some complex formatting:

app.layout = [
   html.H1("Our Sales Dashboard"),

   html.Span(children=[

   f"Prepared: {datetime.now().date()}",

   " by ", html.B("Jessie Parker, "),

   html.I("Data Scientist")

   ])

]

A screenshot of the top left of a chrome window where the server address is visible in the URL bar. There is a large title noting 'our sales dashboard', below this is a line noting "Prepared: 2021-06-27 by Jessie Parker, data scientist" Jessie Parker, is in bold and data scientist is in italics

Breaking up the text

app.layout = [
   html.H1("Our Sales Dashboard"),
   html.Span(children=[
   f"Prepared: {datetime.now().date()}", 
   html.Br(),
   " by ", html.B("Jessie Parker, "),
   html.Br(),
   html.I("Data Scientist")])
    ]

Let's practice!

Building Dashboards with Dash and Plotly