From the course: Interactive Dashboards with Plotly and Dash

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Interactive elements

Interactive elements

- [Instructor] Okay, so we just took a look at a very simple Dash application that really shouldn't even be called an application. It was just a simple webpage with a single word or a couple words of text that happened to be deployed via Dash. If I had ended the course there, I would expect almost all of you to request your money back, and I would certainly understand why. What really brings web apps to life is interactivity, right? Users can provide data that we then process and we use to do something of value for our users. And so in Dash, there are many interactive elements that can be added to apps for user input. These are provided by the Dash Core Components Module, which we typically abbreviate to dcc via an alias. And so this is the list of interactive elements that we'll be moving through in the course. We're going to start with the dropdown menu. And the dropdown menu is a single- or multiple-select dropdown list of predefined options. If you've ever purchased anything…

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