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HighlightedText

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gradio.HighlightedText(···)

import gradio as gr with gr.Blocks() as demo: gr.HighlightedText( value=[ ("The ", "article"), ("quick ", "adjective"), ("brown ", "adjective"), ("fox ", "noun"), ("jumps ", "verb"), ("over ", "preposition"), ("the ", "article"), ("lazy ", "adjective"), ("dog", "noun"), ], combine_adjacent=True, ) demo.launch()

Description

Displays text that contains spans that are highlighted by category or numerical value.

Behavior

As input component: Passes the value as a list of tuples as a `list[tuple]` into the function. Each `tuple` consists of a `str` substring of the text (so the entire text is included) and `str | float | None` label, which is the category or confidence of that substring.

Your function should accept one of these types:

def predict(
	value: list[tuple[str, str | float | None]] | None
)
	...

As output component: Expects a list of (word, category) tuples, or a dictionary of two keys: "text", and "entities", which itself is a list of dictionaries, each of which have the keys: "entity" (or "entity_group"), "start", and "end"

Your function should return one of these types:

def predict(···) -> list[tuple[str, str | float | None]] | dict | None
	...	
	return value

Initialization

value: list[tuple[str, str | float | None]] | dict | Callable | None

default = None

Default value to show. If callable, the function will be called whenever the app loads to set the initial value of the component.

color_map: dict[str, str] | None

default = None

A dictionary mapping labels to colors. The colors may be specified as hex codes or by their names. For example: {"person": "red", "location": "#FFEE22"}

show_legend: bool

default = False

whether to show span categories in a separate legend or inline.

show_inline_category: bool

default = True

If False, will not display span category label. Only applies if show_legend=False and interactive=False.

combine_adjacent: bool

default = False

If True, will merge the labels of adjacent tokens belonging to the same category.

adjacent_separator: str

default = ""

Specifies the separator to be used between tokens if combine_adjacent is True.

label: str | None

default = None

the label for this component. Appears above the component and is also used as the header if there are a table of examples for this component. If None and used in a `gr.Interface`, the label will be the name of the parameter this component is assigned to.

every: Timer | float | None

default = None

Continously calls `value` to recalculate it if `value` is a function (has no effect otherwise). Can provide a Timer whose tick resets `value`, or a float that provides the regular interval for the reset Timer.

inputs: Component | list[Component] | set[Component] | None

default = None

Components that are used as inputs to calculate `value` if `value` is a function (has no effect otherwise). `value` is recalculated any time the inputs change.

show_label: bool | None

default = None

if True, will display label.

container: bool

default = True

If True, will place the component in a container - providing some extra padding around the border.

scale: int | None

default = None

relative size compared to adjacent Components. For example if Components A and B are in a Row, and A has scale=2, and B has scale=1, A will be twice as wide as B. Should be an integer. scale applies in Rows, and to top-level Components in Blocks where fill_height=True.

min_width: int

default = 160

minimum pixel width, will wrap if not sufficient screen space to satisfy this value. If a certain scale value results in this Component being narrower than min_width, the min_width parameter will be respected first.

visible: bool

default = True

If False, component will be hidden.

elem_id: str | None

default = None

An optional string that is assigned as the id of this component in the HTML DOM. Can be used for targeting CSS styles.

elem_classes: list[str] | str | None

default = None

An optional list of strings that are assigned as the classes of this component in the HTML DOM. Can be used for targeting CSS styles.

render: bool

default = True

If False, component will not render be rendered in the Blocks context. Should be used if the intention is to assign event listeners now but render the component later.

key: int | str | None

default = None

if assigned, will be used to assume identity across a re-render. Components that have the same key across a re-render will have their value preserved.

interactive: bool | None

default = None

If True, the component will be editable, and allow user to select spans of text and label them.

Shortcuts

Class	Interface String Shortcut	Initialization
`gradio.HighlightedText`	"highlightedtext"	Uses default values

Demos

from difflib import Differ import gradio as gr def diff_texts(text1, text2): d = Differ() return [ (token[2:], token[0] if token[0] != " " else None) for token in d.compare(text1, text2) ] demo = gr.Interface( diff_texts, [ gr.Textbox( label="Text 1", info="Initial text", lines=3, value="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.", ), gr.Textbox( label="Text 2", info="Text to compare", lines=3, value="The fast brown fox jumps over lazy dogs.", ), ], gr.HighlightedText( label="Diff", combine_adjacent=True, show_legend=True, color_map={"+": "red", "-": "green"}), theme=gr.themes.Base() ) if __name__ == "__main__": demo.launch()

from difflib import Differ

import gradio as gr

def diff_texts(text1, text2):
    d = Differ()
    return [
        (token[2:], token[0] if token[0] != " " else None)
        for token in d.compare(text1, text2)
    ]

demo = gr.Interface(
    diff_texts,
    [
        gr.Textbox(
            label="Text 1",
            info="Initial text",
            lines=3,
            value="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.",
        ),
        gr.Textbox(
            label="Text 2",
            info="Text to compare",
            lines=3,
            value="The fast brown fox jumps over lazy dogs.",
        ),
    ],
    gr.HighlightedText(
        label="Diff",
        combine_adjacent=True,
        show_legend=True,
        color_map={"+": "red", "-": "green"}),
    theme=gr.themes.Base()
)
if __name__ == "__main__":
    demo.launch()

Event Listeners

Description

Event listeners allow you to respond to user interactions with the UI components you've defined in a Gradio Blocks app. When a user interacts with an element, such as changing a slider value or uploading an image, a function is called.

Supported Event Listeners

The HighlightedText component supports the following event listeners. Each event listener takes the same parameters, which are listed in the Event Parameters table below.

Listener	Description
`HighlightedText.change(fn, ···)`	Triggered when the value of the HighlightedText changes either because of user input (e.g. a user types in a textbox) OR because of a function update (e.g. an image receives a value from the output of an event trigger). See `.input()` for a listener that is only triggered by user input.
`HighlightedText.select(fn, ···)`	Event listener for when the user selects or deselects the HighlightedText. Uses event data gradio.SelectData to carry `value` referring to the label of the HighlightedText, and `selected` to refer to state of the HighlightedText. See EventData documentation on how to use this event data

Event Parameters

fn: Callable | None | Literal['decorator']

default = "decorator"

the function to call when this event is triggered. Often a machine learning model's prediction function. Each parameter of the function corresponds to one input component, and the function should return a single value or a tuple of values, with each element in the tuple corresponding to one output component.

inputs: Component | BlockContext | list[Component | BlockContext] | Set[Component | BlockContext] | None

default = None

List of gradio.components to use as inputs. If the function takes no inputs, this should be an empty list.

outputs: Component | BlockContext | list[Component | BlockContext] | Set[Component | BlockContext] | None

default = None

List of gradio.components to use as outputs. If the function returns no outputs, this should be an empty list.

api_name: str | None | Literal[False]

default = None

defines how the endpoint appears in the API docs. Can be a string, None, or False. If set to a string, the endpoint will be exposed in the API docs with the given name. If None (default), the name of the function will be used as the API endpoint. If False, the endpoint will not be exposed in the API docs and downstream apps (including those that `gr.load` this app) will not be able to use this event.

scroll_to_output: bool

default = False

If True, will scroll to output component on completion

show_progress: Literal['full', 'minimal', 'hidden']

default = "full"

how to show the progress animation while event is running: "full" shows a spinner which covers the output component area as well as a runtime display in the upper right corner, "minimal" only shows the runtime display, "hidden" shows no progress animation at all

queue: bool

default = True

If True, will place the request on the queue, if the queue has been enabled. If False, will not put this event on the queue, even if the queue has been enabled. If None, will use the queue setting of the gradio app.

batch: bool

default = False

If True, then the function should process a batch of inputs, meaning that it should accept a list of input values for each parameter. The lists should be of equal length (and be up to length `max_batch_size`). The function is then *required* to return a tuple of lists (even if there is only 1 output component), with each list in the tuple corresponding to one output component.

max_batch_size: int

default = 4

Maximum number of inputs to batch together if this is called from the queue (only relevant if batch=True)

preprocess: bool

default = True

If False, will not run preprocessing of component data before running 'fn' (e.g. leaving it as a base64 string if this method is called with the `Image` component).

postprocess: bool

default = True

If False, will not run postprocessing of component data before returning 'fn' output to the browser.

cancels: dict[str, Any] | list[dict[str, Any]] | None

default = None

A list of other events to cancel when this listener is triggered. For example, setting cancels=[click_event] will cancel the click_event, where click_event is the return value of another components .click method. Functions that have not yet run (or generators that are iterating) will be cancelled, but functions that are currently running will be allowed to finish.

trigger_mode: Literal['once', 'multiple', 'always_last'] | None

default = None

If "once" (default for all events except `.change()`) would not allow any submissions while an event is pending. If set to "multiple", unlimited submissions are allowed while pending, and "always_last" (default for `.change()` and `.key_up()` events) would allow a second submission after the pending event is complete.

js: str | None

default = None

Optional frontend js method to run before running 'fn'. Input arguments for js method are values of 'inputs' and 'outputs', return should be a list of values for output components.

concurrency_limit: int | None | Literal['default']

default = "default"

If set, this is the maximum number of this event that can be running simultaneously. Can be set to None to mean no concurrency_limit (any number of this event can be running simultaneously). Set to "default" to use the default concurrency limit (defined by the `default_concurrency_limit` parameter in `Blocks.queue()`, which itself is 1 by default).

concurrency_id: str | None

default = None

If set, this is the id of the concurrency group. Events with the same concurrency_id will be limited by the lowest set concurrency_limit.

show_api: bool

default = True

whether to show this event in the "view API" page of the Gradio app, or in the ".view_api()" method of the Gradio clients. Unlike setting api_name to False, setting show_api to False will still allow downstream apps as well as the Clients to use this event. If fn is None, show_api will automatically be set to False.

time_limit: int | None

default = None

stream_every: float

default = 0.5

like_user_message: bool

default = False

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Description

Displays text that contains spans that are highlighted by category or numerical value.

Behavior

As input component: Passes the value as a list of tuples as a list[tuple] into the function. Each tuple consists of a str substring of the text (so the entire text is included) and str | float | None label, which is the category or confidence of that substring.

Your function should accept one of these types:

As output component: Expects a list of (word, category) tuples, or a dictionary of two keys: "text", and "entities", which itself is a list of dictionaries, each of which have the keys: "entity" (or "entity_group"), "start", and "end"

Your function should return one of these types:

Initialization

Shortcuts

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Event Listeners

Description

Supported Event Listeners

Event Parameters

Guides

As input component: Passes the value as a list of tuples as a `list[tuple]` into the function. Each `tuple` consists of a `str` substring of the text (so the entire text is included) and `str | float | None` label, which is the category or confidence of that substring.