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**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 11, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/displaying-interactive-maps-from-html-file-attachments/7129 "2022-10-11T21:23:48Z")\
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**Author:**  [@ericch99](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/ericch99)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/displaying-interactive-maps-from-html-file-attachments/7129/1 "2022-10-11T21:23:48Z")
Hi there!
I have some interactive Folium maps saved as HTML files, and was wondering how (or if it’s possible) to display them in a notebook cell. I’m currently loading the maps in as FileAttachments, but I’m not sure how to parse the resulting HTMLDocument object so that I can actually show the maps, which were generated in Python.
I’ve tried looking at some of the individual DOM elements, but the most I can do is show the legend, which is contained inside in the body tag. The map itself, as well as the interactivity, is defined inside of a script tag, which I’m not sure how to parse.
I’m admittedly a total novice when it comes to web languages, so I’d appreciate any pointers – I suspect this is a harder problem than it seems to me.
Here’s the notebook to see how I’m loading in the files: [Interactive Map: U.S. Ecoregions / Eric Chen / Observable](https://observablehq.com/@ericch99/us-ecoregions)
Thanks!
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**Author:**  [@mcmcclur](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mcmcclur)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/displaying-interactive-maps-from-html-file-attachments/7129/2 "2022-10-11T22:02:52Z")
You could embed them in an iframe and display that. Here’s how:
> **[Displaying Folium maps in iframes](https://observablehq.com/@mcmcclur/displaying-folium-maps-in-iframes)**
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> A response to this forum question
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It does seem to be a bit of a roundabout way to get a map into Observable. Perhaps, it meets your needs at the moment, though?
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**Author:**  [@ericch99](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/ericch99)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/displaying-interactive-maps-from-html-file-attachments/7129/3 "2022-10-11T22:14:16Z")
Thank you so much – this is exactly what I needed!
Yeah, I only have a passing familiarity with HTML/CSS/JS, but mainly wanted to use Observable to “host” the visualizations in a lightweight manner.
Appreciate it!
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**Author:**  [@mcmcclur](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mcmcclur)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/displaying-interactive-maps-from-html-file-attachments/7129/4 "2022-10-11T23:43:17Z")
> [@ericch99](#):
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> mainly wanted to use Observable to “host” the visualizations in a lightweight manner.
Glad that helped! It might be worth mentioning that the absolute lightest way to host it is probably via the embed URL: [https://observablehq.com/embed/@mcmcclur/displaying-folium-maps-in-iframes?cells=topmatter%2Cviewof+map\_type%2Cmap](https://observablehq.com/embed/@mcmcclur/displaying-folium-maps-in-iframes?cells=topmatter%2Cviewof+map_type%2Cmap)