Multi-st.container with an error:"'setIn' cannot be called on an ElementNode"

[snehankekre]

Hi @qiud19

Sharing my reply to a recent similar post:

"Bad message format : i[o] is undefined" error with two containers

Hi @souravzzz, Welcome to the Streamlit forum! I went digging through our GitHub issues to find similar issues: Empty container raises error when written to in a callback · Issue #5880 · streamlit/streamlit · GitHub setIn Error with `st.empty` · Issue #3659 · streamlit/streamlit · GitHub Bad message format: `setIn` cannot be called on an ElementNode · Issue #3223 · streamlit/streamlit · GitHub Paraphrasing Ken’s comments on some issues: This is unintuitive behavior. A part …