Insert a multi-element container that can be expanded/collapsed.

Inserts a container into your app that can be used to hold multiple elements and can be expanded or collapsed by the user. When collapsed, all that is visible is the provided label.

To add elements to the returned container, you can use the "with" notation (preferred) or just call methods directly on the returned object. See examples below.

Warning

Currently, you may not put expanders inside another expander.

Function signature[source]

st.expander(label, expanded=False)

Parameters

label (str)

A string to use as the header for the expander. The label can optionally contain Markdown and supports the following elements: Bold, Italics, Strikethroughs, Inline Code, Emojis, and Links.

This also supports:

  • Emoji shortcodes, such as :+1: and :sunglasses:. For a list of all supported codes, see https://share.streamlit.io/streamlit/emoji-shortcodes.
  • LaTeX expressions, by wrapping them in "$" or "$$" (the "$$" must be on their own lines). Supported LaTeX functions are listed at https://katex.org/docs/supported.html.
  • Colored text, using the syntax :color[text to be colored], where color needs to be replaced with any of the following supported colors: blue, green, orange, red, violet, gray/grey, rainbow.

Unsupported elements are unwrapped so only their children (text contents) render. Display unsupported elements as literal characters by backslash-escaping them. E.g. 1\. Not an ordered list.

expanded (bool)

If True, initializes the expander in "expanded" state. Defaults to False (collapsed).

Examples

You can use the with notation to insert any element into an expander

import streamlit as st

st.bar_chart({"data": [1, 5, 2, 6, 2, 1]})

with st.expander("See explanation"):
    st.write(\"\"\"
        The chart above shows some numbers I picked for you.
        I rolled actual dice for these, so they're *guaranteed* to
        be random.
    \"\"\")
    st.image("https://static.streamlit.io/examples/dice.jpg")

Or you can just call methods directly on the returned objects:

import streamlit as st

st.bar_chart({"data": [1, 5, 2, 6, 2, 1]})

expander = st.expander("See explanation")
expander.write(\"\"\"
    The chart above shows some numbers I picked for you.
    I rolled actual dice for these, so they're *guaranteed* to
    be random.
\"\"\")
expander.image("https://static.streamlit.io/examples/dice.jpg")
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