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Streamlit Component Limitations

Pain pointTrend: NewConfidence: LowFirst seen 7/29/2026 · last seen 7/29/2026

Opportunity score

25

Mentions

3

Communities

1

Growth since last check

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What's happening

Users are facing challenges with specific Streamlit components, such as dropdowns and sliders, which do not behave as expected. This leads to difficulties in creating user-friendly interfaces for their applications.

Why this score: The frustration expressed by users indicates a significant barrier to creating effective applications with Streamlit.

Who's affected

Streamlit developersUI/UX designersData scientists

What people try to do

  • Trying to modify existing components to fit their needs.
  • Seeking community support for workarounds.

Why current solutions fail

  • Components do not function as intended.
  • Lack of customization options for specific use cases.

What to build

  • Develop custom components to enhance dropdown and slider functionality.
  • Create a library of best practices for using Streamlit components.
  • Offer workshops on building user-friendly interfaces with Streamlit.

Reasons to be careful

  • The issues may be specific to certain use cases and not reflect the overall functionality of Streamlit components.

Evidence

Streamlit_option_menu sidebar or menus appear as ordered list

I am running the application locally on Microsoft Edge using Python 3.12.4 and Streamlit version 1.38.0. Despite attempting to troubleshoot the issue on Firefox and Chrome, the menu is displayed as a list, rather than in its intended format." Let me know if you'd like any further adjustments! Git...

streamlit-discuss · Balamurukan · 9/12/2024

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Need help with Streamlit Dropdown Behavior

Hi Streamlit community, I'm currently working on a Streamlit application where I'm encountering an issue with dropdown behavior that I'm struggling to resolve. Here's a brief overview of the problem: Issue : When selecting a circulariteitscode value, the dropdown should only display the correspon...

streamlit-discuss · adamasbaihalifa · 4/6/2024

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Streamlit App refreshing anytime I use the slider

hii. I tried it and it worked, thank you so much. but I have another problem; it doesn't update the value of the slider even when I move it from 0. I move it to 5 for example, it stores it as 0 in the session state. //code\ Create a SessionState object class SessionState: def init (self, **kwargs...

streamlit-discuss · Yasmin_Danmusa · 6/12/2023

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