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**Category:** Dash Python\
**Tags:** show-and-tell, question\
**Created:** [August 31, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/convert-html-to-dash/78191 "2023-08-31T20:07:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:**  [@idling-mind](https://community.plotly.com/u/idling-mind)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/convert-html-to-dash/78191/1 "2023-08-31T20:07:24Z")
Hello!
I’ve been using dash for a while now and it is becoming one of my go to library for many usecases.
I have used html and css a bit before coming to dash and so, I felt at home with the dash layout since it’s html, but written in python.
But here are some issues I have been facing.
- I cannot copy paste html examples from web, especially when using some external css libraries
- Larger layouts were becoming too skewed to the right when written in python
- I felt, writing layout in html is still better, but i’d like to use the interactivity that dash provides.
So I have been trying to write a package ([GitHub - idling-mind/html2dash: Convert an html layout to an equivalent dash layout](https://github.com/idling-mind/html2dash)) which tires to solve this. The idea is to write the layout still in html. Also, along with regular html tags, you can use dash specific tags also. For eg: you could use `hello` to render a badge from from `dash_mantine_components`.
Details are in the repo’s readme. Also there is an example where I tried to copy paste the html from [Tabler Dashboard UI Kit - Bootstrap Admin Panel](https://tabler.io/preview) to see if it rendered properly. (more or less! svgs and some input tags did not render, i switched some with other dash tags)
I’d like to know from the community if this is a worthwhile pursuit? Does this make your life easier? or is it better to write the layout in python itself?
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**Author:**  [@adamschroeder](https://community.plotly.com/u/adamschroeder)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/convert-html-to-dash/78191/2 "2023-09-01T15:13:23Z")
hi @idling-mind
This is cool. I like the thought process behind this repo. Personally, I don’t think I would use it since the layouts I create are not too long and I got into Dash for the specific reason of not wanting to write html.
That said, I can definitely see people using this library if their layouts are very long or if they already know html and feel stronger with that language.
I look forward to reading what other community members think.
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**Author:**  [@idling-mind](https://community.plotly.com/u/idling-mind)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/convert-html-to-dash/78191/3 "2023-09-01T17:16:38Z")
Thanks @adamschroeder for your comment. Yeah, I myself won’t use it for smaller layouts.