Unfortunately it’s not available by default.
However, components get serialized as json and so in theory you could transform that json into a react component call. In other words, think about children as if it is just some nested object / dictionary property. It has keys “namespace”, “type”, and “props”
There are a few limitations to this:
- You won’t be able to update or observe the rendered components via callbacks. Dash introspects/crawls children to do this, it won’t crawl through any other component hierarchy
- To handle nested components, you’ll need to crawl / recurse through the objects yourself and render them
- Children may come to you, the component, as an already-rendered React element instead of its JSON representation. Im not sure here, this has changed a couple of times over the years. If it’s a rendered component, that’ll be harder to extract the properties from but you may be able to just render it directly. However, there is also this prop called something like _private_dash_layout (i’m on my phone and so i don’t remember exactly) that might contain the component in json form. Check out the source of the Tabs component, I believe that uses this property. Beware, this is a private property and so we may change it at any time without advance notice.