# Flexibility and compatibility with html templating inside Dash layout

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/flexibility-and-compatibility-with-html-templating-inside-dash-layout/5360>\
**Category:** Dash Python\
**Created:** [August 11, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/flexibility-and-compatibility-with-html-templating-inside-dash-layout/5360 "2017-08-11T22:55:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![chriddyp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/chriddyp/32/16855_2.png) [@chriddyp](https://community.plotly.com/u/chriddyp)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/flexibility-and-compatibility-with-html-templating-inside-dash-layout/5360/2 "2017-08-17T15:19:52Z")

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There is not a way to mix and match jinja templating with Dash right now. You have to use the `dash_html_components` library. There has been some discussion around adding a `RawHTML` component to Dash here: [https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/44](https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/44)

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