# Save Datatable Link "Markdown"

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**Category:** Dash Python\
**Created:** [April 12, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/save-datatable-link-markdown/74361 "2023-04-12T14:58:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![cosco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a3d4f5/32.png) [@cosco](https://community.plotly.com/u/cosco)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2023, 6:59am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/save-datatable-link-markdown/74361/7 "2023-04-13T06:59:22Z")

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So I figured out that the problem must lie with the link I open. If I open the Link to another site of my dash app in a new tab then the changes are not used there. But if I navigate around in the tab I clicked on the link then the changes are seeable and stored.

This means, that I can open links from my table but if I open links to other sites of my app then the callback is not executed in the site that opens

EDIT: I found some code from Eduardo which looks like it achieves my desired result. Will try it and thank you for your time.  
Here is the link (Example 1):

> [@Button inside a Dash Table](https://community.plotly.com/t/button-inside-a-dash-table/51460):
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> Hi Everybody, Today @AnnMarieW and I performed an option to have a kind of Button inside a Dash data Table. Let me explain the trick: Use active\_cell property of the table as Input of a callback. The active\_cell property has (at least) 3 elements of the active cell, those are row, column, and column\_id. That means if a user selects the second element of the first column the active\_cell will give us the following information: {‘row’: 1, ‘column’: 0, ‘column\_id’: ‘first\_column\_name’} Then us…

Best Regards

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