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I like using Plotly (plotly express) in my Jupyter Notebook because I don't need to take care of axis formatting to be able to read the chart properly. Plotly takes care of it and I can also hover through the chart to see the values. It's just amazing.

But I always had a problem when I wanted to share the chart to others. I used to import the chart as a .png file. It will still look nice, but the chart will no longer be interactive as it will be converted into an image.

Recently a colleague asked about how to embed plotly chart in a dropbox paper. I guess normally we would then generate the iframe for the chart and then embed it. But I don't think dropbox paper support embedding iframe. Then an idea popped in my mind to just export the chart as html and attach that html file.

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1fig = # your plotly chart
2fig.write_html('chartname.html')

Voila! That's how I imported my first plotly html lol.

Why is this a good option to share a plotly chart?

1. You maintain the interactivity of the chart (you can hover through and see the values!)
2. Anyone with a browser can easily open an html file. No need for any technical knowledge or extra tools installation!