Using markdown to call a page in multipage app?

[asw888]

Hi, I love the new Streamlit Multipage support in v1.10+. But I don’t love the page list on the sidebar because I don’t want all the subpages to be listed. So I’m trying to implement a top menu to bring up only pages I like to call instead of showing all the pages.

However no matter how I setup my href link, it always bring up the page in a new tab. For example, using a markdown like below:

st.markdown("<a href='subpage'>subpage</a>", unsafe_allow_html=True)

This will bring up a new browser tab for me even though I follow exactly the same referenced href spec in the sidebar page listing. Any idea how I may be able to circumvent this? Or may be our Streamlit masters can figure out a hack to imitate the same call as the sidebar page links?

Thanks!
Andy W

[ji_haoran]

Try add target property in a tag.

st.markdown("<a href='subpage' target='_self'>subpage</a>", unsafe_allow_html=True)

[asw888]

This works! Thanks much @ji_haoran. Not sure why target=“_blank” didn’t work for me.

Calling a page using markdown requires a full refresh (e.g. the sidebar redraws) whereas clicking on the page name in the sidebar is much faster. I’m assuming state variables will not work as well.

Is there a way to get the same fast page load behavior like from the sidebar using the markdown method? The hrefs are exactly the same. Odd.