Style and Formatting
Learn how to style and format DataTable elements to improve usability and aesthetics.
Being able to style and format the DataTable elements will greatly enhance the look, feel, and usability of your Dash Apps and the DataTable you create. Let’s learn different ways we can customize this aspect of our apps.
The default style
By default, the slightly grayed-out header cells give us a good indication of what our column names are, though the display looks rather basic. Here we will look at Alibaba stock prices:
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Styling headers
Through the style_header keyword argument, we can apply many CSS properties to the header cells in the dataset, where we have control over almost every aspect imaginable. In this example, we do the following (in order):
- Set text to bold.
- Set font size to size 24.
- Set font family to Arial.
- Set font color to black.
- Set a 2 pixel solid black border around the header cells.