Plotly express image background disappears when the chart is included in dash
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Hi,
I have added the logo of the company who owns the data on kaggle to my plotly express chart. On the jupyter notebook when I run fig.show() the image is displayed in the background as specified. However, when I include the figure in the dash app, the logo is not displayed when I visit the URL of dash app. Why is this happening and how to fix this?
plotly express code:
india = px.line(df[df.cityName=='India'], x="month", y="Final_Price_Index", color="bedrooms",template='simple_white+gridon', line_shape='linear', labels={"bedrooms": "Type"}, category_orders={"bedrooms":['1-BHK', '2-BHK', '3-BHK', 'ALL']})
india.update_traces(line=dict(width=2), hovertemplate=None)
india.update_layout(
images=[dict(source="housing_black.jpg",xref="paper", yref="paper",x=0.2, y=.7,sizex=.3, sizey=.8,xanchor="center", yanchor="bottom",
sizing= "contain",opacity= 0.7,visible = True,layer= "below")],
hovermode="x unified",
autosize=True,
xaxis_title="Date Range Slider",
yaxis_title="",
title="India",
legend_title="",
legend=dict(orientation="h",yanchor="bottom",y=1.05,xanchor="right",x=1),
font=dict(family="Helvetica, Bold", size=14,color="Black"),
xaxis=dict(rangeslider=dict(visible=True,thickness=.12,bgcolor= 'lightgrey'),type="date")
)
india.layout.legend.itemsizing = 'constant'
india.show()
output:

dash code:
app = dash.Dash(__name__, meta_tags=[{
'name': 'viewport',
'content': 'width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0'
}], prevent_initial_callbacks=True)
server=app.server
abs_styles = {'display': 'inlineBlock', 'height': 'auto', 'width': 'auto',
'position': 'fixed', "background": "#323130", 'top': '12.5vh', 'left': '7.5vw',
'border': 'grey', 'border-radius': '4px'}
tab_style = {
"background": "#323130",
'text-transform': 'uppercase',
'color': 'white',
'border': '#A9A9A9',
'font-size': '10px',
'font-weight': 600,
'align-items': 'center',
'justify-content': 'center',
'border-radius': '4px',
'padding':'6px'
}
tab_selected_style = {
"background": "#A9A9A9",
'text-transform': 'uppercase',
'color': 'white',
'font-size': '10px',
'font-weight': 600,
'align-items': 'center',
'justify-content': 'center',
'border-radius': '4px',
'padding':'6px'
}
app.layout = html.Div([
dcc.Tabs(id='tabs-example', value='tab-1', mobile_breakpoint=0, children=[
dcc.Tab(label='India', value='tab-1',style=tab_style, selected_style=tab_selected_style),
dcc.Tab(label='Ahmedabad', value='tab-2',style=tab_style, selected_style=tab_selected_style),
dcc.Tab(label='Bengaluru', value='tab-3',style=tab_style, selected_style=tab_selected_style),
dcc.Tab(label='Chennai', value='tab-4',style=tab_style, selected_style=tab_selected_style),
dcc.Tab(label='Hyderabad', value='tab-5',style=tab_style, selected_style=tab_selected_style),
dcc.Tab(label='Kolkata', value='tab-6',style=tab_style, selected_style=tab_selected_style),
dcc.Tab(label='Mumbai', value='tab-7',style=tab_style, selected_style=tab_selected_style),
dcc.Tab(label='Pune', value='tab-8',style=tab_style, selected_style=tab_selected_style),
dcc.Tab(label='NCR', value='tab-9',style=tab_style, selected_style=tab_selected_style)
]),
html.Div(id='tabs-example-content'),
html.Div(id='footnote', style={'text-align': 'right', 'font-size':14, 'color': 'black', 'font-family': 'cursive'})
])
@app.callback(Output('tabs-example-content', 'children'),
Output('footnote', 'children'),
Input('tabs-example', 'value'),
prevent_intial_call=True)
def render_content(tab):
if tab == 'tab-1':
return html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id='g2', figure=india)],
className="row",
style={"display": "block","margin-left": "auto","margin-right": "auto"}), "Data Source: housing.com"
elif tab == 'tab-2':
return html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id='g2', figure=ahm)],
className="row",
style={"display": "block","margin-left": "auto","margin-right": "auto"}), "Data Source: housing.com"
elif tab == 'tab-3':
return html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id='g2', figure=blr)],
className="row",
style={"display": "block","margin-left": "auto","margin-right": "auto"}), "Data Source: housing.com"
elif tab == 'tab-4':
return html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id='g2', figure=che)],
className="row",
style={"display": "block","margin-left": "auto","margin-right": "auto"}), "Data Source: housing.com"
elif tab == 'tab-5':
return html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id='g2', figure=hyd)],
className="row",
style={"display": "block","margin-left": "auto","margin-right": "auto"}), "Data Source: housing.com"
elif tab == 'tab-6':
return html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id='g2', figure=kol)],
className="row",
style={"display": "block","margin-left": "auto","margin-right": "auto"}), "Data Source: housing.com"
elif tab == 'tab-7':
return html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id='g2', figure=mum)],
className="row",
style={"display": "block","margin-left": "auto","margin-right": "auto"}), "Data Source: housing.com"
elif tab == 'tab-8':
return html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id='g2', figure=pune)],
className="row",
style={"display": "block","margin-left": "auto","margin-right": "auto"}), "Data Source: housing.com"
elif tab == 'tab-9':
return html.Div([
dcc.Graph(id='g2', figure=ncr)],
className="row",
style={"display": "block","margin-left": "auto","margin-right": "auto"}), "Data Source: housing.com"
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run_server(debug=True, use_reloader=False)
dash app output:

you can clearly see that the logo was successfully added in the plotly image, but it disappeared when I loaded that plot into dash.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the difference between fig.show() and the dcc.Graph rendering in the supplied Dash code, using the image source "housing_black.jpg". Trace how the figure's layout images are transferred and resolved in Dash, then confirm the logo appears when the graph is loaded through the tab callback.
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- Issue type
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