Allow HyperLinks in cells via either dash_html_components.A, plain HTML string, or a markdown string

[zshao]

Right now, the cells can only be plain text. It will be great to support either HTML String or dash_html_components.A

[zshao]

@chriddyp if you can point me to where to look at, I should be able to work out the code myself I think. Thanks!

[eddy-ojb]

I second this!

[eliasdabbas]

+1

[chriddyp]

if you can point me to where to look at, I should be able to work out the code myself I think. Thanks!

Thanks for offering to jump in! Before we start coding, we need to be very thoughful about our API design, as I see this type of feature as just one of the features that first-class data type support will offer. That is, we need an API that allows for different "cell-renderers" that correspond to different "data-types". In some cases, data types will have only a single cell-renderer (e.g. enum and dropdown) but in other cases, there might be multiple cell-renders for a single data type (string could be rendrered as text input or link). So in this case, would a link be just a new cell-renderer or would it be a data type of its own?

What we decide above will also impact other things like filtering and editing

• do we include the hyperlink in the filtering, do we render a special type of filter UI for hyperlinks?
• what does the editing experience look like for a link?

So, first we need to nail down data types and how the impact all of these other things (rendering, filtering, editing). That discussion will include things like support for hyperlinks. Then, once that API is nailed down, hopefully adding hyperlink support will fit in naturally.

I'm working on a design document for data types this week and I'll link this issue that discussion when I post it.

I hope that makes sense!

[Marc-Andre-Rivet]

Linking #236 for dcc.Link support.

[chirayu11]

+1

[jscottNRG]

I'm also looking for this feature. Love the ability to have embedded links in a Dash table like shown in
this recipe and I'd like to use DataTable instead.

[jurezu]

Any updates on this issue?

[Coding-with-Adam]

Hi.
Any updates on this issue? I'm trying to add links into rows as well.

[Coding-with-Adam]

Hi.
Any updates on this issue? I'm trying to add links into rows as well.