How to embed HTML into IPython output?

Question

Is it possible to embed rendered HTML output into IPython output?

One way is to use

from IPython.core.display import HTML
HTML('<a href="http://example.com">link</a>')

or (IPython multiline cell alias)

%%html
<a href="http://example.com">link</a>

Which return a formatted link, but

1. This link doesn't open a browser with the webpage itself from the console. IPython notebooks support honest rendering, though.
2. I'm unaware of how to render HTML() object within, say, a list or pandas printed table. You can do df.to_html(), but without making links inside cells.
3. This output isn't interactive in the PyCharm Python console (because it's not QT).

How can I overcome these shortcomings and make IPython output a bit more interactive?

Answer 1

This seems to work for me:

from IPython.core.display import display, HTML
display(HTML('<h1>Hello, world!</h1>'))

The trick is to wrap it in "display" as well.

Source: http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Printing-HTML-within-IPython-Notebook-IPython-specific-prettyprint-tp5016624p5016631.html