Preserving state and selected inputs of a previous tab

[abhay.verma]

Is there a similar feature for preserving Tabs state too ?

How to preserve last state in Tabs?

Lets say, I have a dash app layout with 2 tabs. Each tab has a callback associated with an input. At first, I navigated to tab-1 and provided an input to draw a table/graph. Now, when I switched to another tab (tab-2), I provided another input which is on the layout of that tab to get another table/graph. But when I switch back to tab-1, the previous state of tab-1 is lost and I need to provide input again. Can we have preserve last states in dcc.Tabs so that until the input is passed explicitl…

[adi]

Is your tab content generated via a callback or as children in your layout?
I use the latter and don’t find that the Tab state is lost

[abhay.verma]

Each tab content is generated via a callback from an input (dropdown).

[Jordan]

Hey there,

I just answered a similar post, maybe that could help you out: How to update/reload layout

As @adi mentionned, you can either have layout WITHIN the tab (therefore keeping the layout state) or OUTSIDE the tab (meaning you re-generate the whole layout everytime, amking it harder to keep the data)