I'm trying to have plotly express return a string of a div object in html so I can integrate it with other packages. I am trying to follow the documentation (Plotly v5.17.0), and I feel like I'm doing what it tells me to do, but no success.
I'm not sure if I'm missing something obvious (apologies if so) but within the documents in Python I am seeing:
full_html: bool (default True) If True, produce a string containing a complete HTML document starting with an <html> tag. If False, produce a string containing a single <div> element.
and:
Returns ------- str Representation of figure as an HTML div string
Yet, while I can write this div element to a file no problem by making this call with div = fig.write_html(filename, full_html=False) it will return None every time.
I found issue in Plotly GitHub: plotly.io.write_html return · Issue #3599 · plotly/plotly.py
It seems there is mistake in documentation. You have to use .to_html().
BTW:
It generates string with
~ 3 600 000 chars(~ 3.5MB) because it includes allJavaScriptcode.Using
include_plotlyjs=Falseyou get only~ 8 000 chars