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### Interactive vs Static Export

Plotly figures are interactive when viewed in a web browser: you can hover over data points, pan and zoom axes, and show and hide traces by clicking or double-clicking on the legend. You can export figures either to [static image file formats like PNG, JPEG, SVG or PDF](/python/static-image-export/) or you can export them to HTML files which can be opened in a browser. This page explains how to do the latter.

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### Saving to an HTML file

Any figure can be saved as an HTML file using the `write_html` method. These HTML files can be opened in any web browser to access the fully interactive figure.

```python
import plotly.express as px

fig = px.scatter(x=range(10), y=range(10))
fig.write_html("path/to/file.html")
```
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### Controlling the size of the HTML file

By default, the resulting HTML file is a fully self-contained HTML file which can be uploaded to a web server or shared via email or other file-sharing mechanisms. The downside to this approach is that the file is very large (5Mb+) because it contains an inlined copy of the Plotly.js library required to make the figure interactive. This can be controlled via the `include_plotlyjs` argument (see below).

### Inserting Plotly Output into HTML using a Jinja2 Template

You can insert Plotly output and text related to your data into HTML templates using Jinja2. Use `.to_html` to send the HTML to a Python string variable rather than using `write_html` to send the HTML to a disk file.  Use the `full_html=False` option to output just the code necessary to add a figure to a template. We don't want to output a full HTML page, as the template will define the rest of the page's structure — for example, the page's `HTML` and `BODY` tags.  First create an HTML template file containing a Jinja `{{ variable }}`.  In this example, we customize the HTML in the template file by replacing the Jinja variable `{{ fig }}` with our graphic `fig`.

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```
&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;meta charset="utf-8" /&gt;   &lt;!--It is necessary to use the UTF-8 encoding with plotly graphics to get e.g. negative signs to render correctly --&gt;
&lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Here's a Plotly graph!&lt;/h1&gt;
{{ fig }}
&lt;p&gt;And here's some text after the graph.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
```


Then use the following Python to replace `{{ fig }}` in the template with HTML that will display the Plotly figure "fig":

```python
import plotly.express as px
from jinja2 import Template

data_canada = px.data.gapminder().query("country == 'Canada'")
fig = px.bar(data_canada, x='year', y='pop')

output_html_path=r"/path/to/output.html"
input_template_path = r"/path/to/template.html"

plotly_jinja_data = {"fig":fig.to_html(full_html=False)}
#consider also defining the include_plotlyjs parameter to point to an external Plotly.js as described above

with open(output_html_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as output_file:
    with open(input_template_path) as template_file:
        j2_template = Template(template_file.read())
        output_file.write(j2_template.render(plotly_jinja_data))
```
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### HTML export in Dash

[Dash](https://plotly.com/dash/) is the best way to build analytical apps in Python using Plotly figures. To run the app below, run `pip install dash`, click "Download" to get the code and run `python app.py`.

Get started  with [the official Dash docs](https://dash.plotly.com/installation) and **learn how to effortlessly [style](https://plotly.com/dash/design-kit/) & publish apps like this with <a class="plotly-red" href="https://plotly.com/dash/">Dash Enterprise</a> or <a class="plotly-red" href="https://plotly.com/cloud/">Plotly Cloud</a>.**


```python hide_code=true
from IPython.display import IFrame
snippet_url = 'https://python-docs-dash-snippets.herokuapp.com/python-docs-dash-snippets/'
IFrame(snippet_url + 'interactive-html-export', width='100%', height=1200)
```

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### Full Parameter Documentation

```python
import plotly.graph_objects as go

help(go.Figure.write_html)
```
