DatetimeSlider.ipynb

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import datetime as dt
import panel as pn

pn.extension()

The DatetimeSlider widget allows selecting a datetime value within a set bounds using a slider.

Discover more on using widgets to add interactivity to your applications in the how-to guides on interactivity. Alternatively, learn how to set up callbacks and (JS-)links between parameters or how to use them as part of declarative UIs with Param.

Parameters:

For details on other options for customizing the component see the layout and styling how-to guides.

Core

• start (date or datetime): The range's lower bound

• end (date or datetime): The range's upper bound

• value (date or datetime): The selected value as a datetime type

• value_throttled (datetime): The selected value as a datetime type throttled until mouseup

• step (number): The selected step of the slider in seconds, default is 1 minutes, i.e 60 seconds

Display

• bar_color (color): Color of the slider bar as a hexadecimal RGB value

• direction (str): Whether the slider should go from left to right ('ltr') or right to left ('rtl')

• disabled (boolean): Whether the widget is editable

• name (str): The title of the widget

• orientation (str): Whether the slider should be displayed in a 'horizontal' or 'vertical' orientation.

• tooltips (boolean): Whether to display tooltips on the slider handle

• format (string): The datetime's format

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datetime_slider = pn.widgets.DatetimeSlider(name='Datetime Slider', start=dt.datetime(2019, 1, 1), end=dt.datetime(2019, 6, 1), value=dt.datetime(2019, 2, 8, 15, 40, 30))

datetime_slider

DatetimeSlider.value returns a datetime type that can be read out or set like other widgets:

datetime_slider.value

Controls

The DatetimeSlider widget exposes a number of options which can be changed from both Python and Javascript. Try out the effect of these parameters interactively:

pn.Row(datetime_slider.controls(jslink=True), datetime_slider)