Display tables in Dash

Dash Python
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@HansG Thanks for reporting! I see what’s going on here.

A little context: When Dash serves the page, it crawls the app.layout to see which component libraries are being used (e.g. dash_core_components). Then, with this list of unique component libraries, it serves the necessary JS and CSS bundles that are distributed with those component libraries.

In this case, we’re serving dash_table_experiments on a separate page, as the response of a callback. Dash only sees dash_html_components and dash_core_components in the app.layout and so it doesn’t serve the necessary JS and CSS bundles that are required for the dash-table-components component that is rendered in the future.

This is a design flaw of Dash. For now, you can get around this issue by rendering a hidden dash-table-experiments component in the layout like:

app.layout = html.Div([
    html.Div(id='content'),
    dcc.Location(id='location', refresh=False),
    html.Div(dt.DataTable(rows=[{}]), style={‘display’: ‘none’})
])
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