idea HTML Tag Support in Page Layouts for Map Documents in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

HTML Tag Support in Page Layouts for Map Documents

AndrewChapkowski — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:34:38 GMT

It would be very helpful if you could render HTML inside a map document in order to create tables, links, etc..

So say I wanted to render a table in my MXD page layout as such:
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>row 1, cell 1</td>
<td>row 1, cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2, cell 1</td>
<td>row 2, cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
I would get a table with my data in it as such:

Right now the text element just ignores the HTML tags at ArcGIS 10 SP3

Re: HTML Tag Support in Page Layouts for Map Documents

DanMcCoy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:18:09 GMT

This should also include anchor tags <A> (hyperlinks) that would be preserved in PDF export.

http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/28792

Re: HTML Tag Support in Page Layouts for Map Documents

AndrewChapkowski — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:42:20 GMT

That's a good addition as well.

Re: HTML Tag Support in Page Layouts for Map Documents

FC_Basson — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:12:29 GMT

And specify a CSS file for styling the HTML elements.

Re: HTML Tag Support in Page Layouts for Map Documents

AndrewBrown16 — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:58:33 GMT

Also, enable the HTML popups to have leader lines, so the tables could point to a specific location.

Add "HTML"-style object in layout

AndreasLorentzen — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:55:21 GMT

I have been working on and off with QGIS for several years, and there you have a possibility to use HTML in the layout to produce tables and dynamic text in an orderly and nice manner. In ArcGIS Pro you don't have this possibility.

A quick video that shows how this is implemented in QGIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vWTRWCJYV8

This is also kind of equivalent with AutoCAD blocks in layout.

(image from youtube video mentioned above)

The ide:

Add a layout element that lets you use HTML to create tables with dynamic text.

Why:

We often need to use map series to create hundreds of similar pages with defined setup which earlier where done with layouts in AutoCAD. The costumers therefore expect a "standardized" table with information. This is really cumbersome to create in ArcGIS Pro.

This is not the same as showing the attribute table, as it need to be colspan/rowspan possibilities.

Re: Add "HTML"-style object in layout

KoryKramer — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:00:57 GMT

Similar to this previous request for ArcMap: https://community.esri.com/ideas/4527

Re: Add "HTML"-style object in layout

AndreasLorentzen — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:34:27 GMT

I did not find that. Nice Catch. However this is for ArcGIS Pro, so it might not be a duplicate?

Web page frame in Layout

B_Brooks — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:53:44 GMT

I would love to have an iframe-like web frame within a layout. This would be especially handy if I could specify the URL off of an attribute value from a feature in the map frame.

I would like to have the Google Street View automatically update in the layout for a specific point. The street view URL can be added in an attribute.

Add tool to embed iFrames into ArcGIS Pro Layouts.

David_Brooks — Fri, 14 May 2021 08:42:59 GMT

I think it would be a great idea for Pro users to be able to embed iFrames into ArcGIS Pro layouts, which would allow users to add AGOL and Portal interactive content. The concept of this idea is based on the lack of Pie Charts in the Chart Frame tool, so the embedding of Dashboards would open up these infographics as well as a host of other web content.

The iFrame content could then export as a flat image into the necessary formats (png, pdf, jpeg etc)

Re: Web page frame in Layout

AndreasLorentzen — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:22:04 GMT

Hi, i added this idea -kind of - earlier last year:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/add-quot-html-quot-style-object-in-layout/idi-p/942394

Re: HTML Tag Support in Page Layouts for Map Documents

rhys-kdrm — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 04:10:17 GMT

Hi All,

I know this is an old post but I needed to do this for one of my projects. After testing different options, I was able to get this to work. I am creating automated reports via ArcPy and I need to create styled tables. In the past I have successfully used ArcPy and ReportLab many times for this, however, I wanted to see if there were any options without ReportLab because I need to hand my solution over to a client, and ReportLab can be tricky to get the page elements positioned properly for non-coders. In the solution I got working, I found that after dynamically creating my HTML, I can export it to an image via the Python imgkit module. Then I can easily programmatically embed the image in my ArcGIS Pro layout. It works great and is fast, so it is HTML converted to an image, then added to a Layout, which is then exported to a PDF with the map and HTML in it.