HTML plotly graphs with output_type="div" are visible in JupyterLab, but blank space in Jupyter Notebook

[manycoding]

I noticed that graphs printed as display(HTML(plot([{"x": [1, 2, 3], "y": [3, 1, 6]}], include_plotlyjs=True, output_type="div"))) are not visible in Notebook, only in JupyterLab.
I print them as a work around #1516 issue.

All examples are in the attached notebook, a minimal would be:

from IPython.display import display, HTML
import plotly.graph_objs as go
from plotly.offline import plot, iplot, init_notebook_mode
init_notebook_mode(connected=False)

display(HTML(plot([{"x": [1, 2, 3], "y": [3, 1, 6]}], include_plotlyjs=True, output_type="div")))

plotly 3.7.1
notebook 5.7.8

plotly figure html.ipynb.zip

[jonmmease]

Hi @manycoding,

This approach isn't expected to work in the notebook (I'm honestly surprised that it works in JupyterLab). plotly.offline.iplot is specifically designed to display figures in the classic notebook.

You may be interested in checking out the renderers PR (#1474) that was merged in for 3.8.0. As it introduces a bunch of new options for displaying figures in different contexts.