Advanced Parameters

Advanced Parameters#

ITables is a wrapper for the Javascript DataTables library, which has a great documentation, a huge collection of examples, and a useful forum.

Below we give a series of examples of how the DataTables examples can be ported to Python with itables.

As always, we initialize the itables library with

from itables import init_notebook_mode, show

init_notebook_mode(all_interactive=True)

Then we create two sample dataframes:

import pandas as pd

from itables.sample_dfs import get_countries

df_small = pd.DataFrame({"a": [2, 1]})
df = get_countries(html=False)

Tip

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Caption#

You can set additional tags on the table like e.g. a caption:

show(df, "Countries from the World Bank Database")
Countries from the World Bank Database
region country capital longitude latitude
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The caption appears at the bottom of the table by default: this is governed by caption-side:bottom in the style option (but for some reason this is not effective in Jupyter Book 😕).

Table layout#

By default, datatables that don’t fit in one page come with a search box, a pagination control, a table summary, etc. You can select which elements are actually displayed using DataTables’ layout option with e.g.:

show(df_small, layout={"topStart": "search", "topEnd": None})
a
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The available positions are topStart, topEnd, bottomStart, bottomEnd. You can also use top2Start, etc… (see more in the DataTables documentation).

Like for the other arguments of show, you can change the default value of the dom option with e.g.:

import itables.options as opt

opt.layout =  {
    "topStart": "pageLength",
    "topEnd": "search",
    "bottomStart": "info",
    "bottomEnd": "paging"
}  # (default value)

Tip

The layout option was introduced with itables==2.0 and DataTables==2.0 and deprecates the former dom option. If you wish to continue using the dom option, set opt.warn_on_dom = False.

Pagination#

How many rows per page#

Select how many entries should appear at once in the table with either the lengthMenu argument of the show function, or with the global option itables.options.lengthMenu:

show(df, lengthMenu=[2, 5, 10, 20, 50])
region country capital longitude latitude
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Show the table in full#

Use paging=False to show the table in full:

show(df.head(8), paging=False)
region country capital longitude latitude
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Scroll#

You can replace the pagination with a vertical scroll:

show(df, scrollY="200px", scrollCollapse=True, paging=False)
region country capital longitude latitude
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Since ITables 2.1.2, the .dt-layout-table div has a default overflow equal to auto, so in most cases you won’t need to use the scrollX option of datatables.

Column filters#

Use column_filters = "header" or "footer" if you wish to display individual column filters (remove the global search box with a layout modifier if desired).

alpha_numeric_df = pd.DataFrame(
    [["one", 1.5], ["two", 2.3]], columns=["string", "numeric"]
)

show(alpha_numeric_df, column_filters="footer", layout={"topEnd": None})
string numeric
stringnumeric
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As always you can set activate column filters by default with e.g.

opt.column_filters = "footer"

Column filters also work on dataframes with multiindex columns:

from itables.sample_dfs import get_dict_of_test_dfs

get_dict_of_test_dfs()["multiindex"]
A B
1 2 1 2
NoneNone('A', 1)('A', 2)('B', 1)('B', 2)
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Row order#

Since itables>=1.3.0, the interactive datatable shows the rows in the same order as the original dataframe:

from itables.sample_dfs import get_dict_of_test_dfs

for name, test_df in get_dict_of_test_dfs().items():
    if "sorted" in name:
        show(test_df, tags=f"<caption>{name}</caption>".replace("_", " ").title())
Sorted Index
x y
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Reverse Sorted Index
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Sorted Multiindex
x y
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Unsorted Index
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You can also set an explicit order argument:

sorted_df = pd.DataFrame({"i": [1, 2], "a": [2, 1]}).set_index(["i"])
show(sorted_df, order=[[1, "asc"]])
a
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Showing the index#

By default, the index of a Series/DataFrame is shown only when it is not trivial, i.e. when it has a name, or when it differs from a range index. If you prefer, you can change the value of showIndex to either True or False to always or never show the index (the default value being "auto").

You can change this behavior globally with e.g.

import itables.options as opt

opt.showIndex = True

or locally by passing an argument showIndex to the show function:

df_with_range_index = pd.DataFrame({"letter": list("abcd")})
show(df_with_range_index, showIndex=True)
letter
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