styling.md

Styling

Data in a Polars DataFrame can be styled for presentation use the DataFrame.style property. This returns a GT object from Great Tables, which enables structuring, formatting, and styling for table display.

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Structure: add header title

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Structure: add row stub

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Structure: add column spanner

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Format: limit decimal places

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Style: highlight max row

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Style: bold species column

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Full example

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