# Exporting and Saving Tables
Once you have built a table, you need to get it into its final destination. That might be a notebook cell, a standalone HTML file, a LaTeX document, or an image file for inclusion in a report or presentation. **Great Tables** provides several export methods to cover these use cases, each with options to control the output format.
# Displaying Tables
In most notebook environments (Jupyter, Quarto, Marimo), simply placing a [GT](../reference/GT.md#great_tables.GT) object as the last expression in a cell will render the table automatically. However, you can also use the [show()](../reference/GT.show.md#great_tables.GT.show) method for explicit control over where the table is displayed.
``` python
from great_tables import GT
from great_tables.data import exibble
gt_tbl = (
GT(exibble.head(3)[["num", "char", "currency"]])
.tab_header(title="Example Table", subtitle="A small demonstration")
.fmt_currency(columns="currency")
.fmt_number(columns="num", decimals=2)
)
gt_tbl.show()
```
| Example Table |
| A small demonstration |
| num |
char |
currency |
| 0.11 |
apricot |
$49.95 |
| 2.22 |
banana |
$17.95 |
| 33.33 |
coconut |
$1.39 |
The `target=` argument controls the display destination. The available options are:
- `"auto"` (the default): displays inline in a notebook if possible, otherwise opens a browser window.
- `"notebook"`: forces inline notebook display.
- `"browser"`: opens the table in your default web browser. This is particularly useful when working in the console or when you want to see the full styled output that some IDEs may suppress.
``` python
# Open in a browser window (useful when running from a script or console)
gt_tbl.show(target="browser")
```
# Getting HTML as a String
The [as_raw_html()](../reference/GT.as_raw_html.md#great_tables.GT.as_raw_html) method returns the table as an HTML string. This is useful for embedding tables in web applications, email templates, or custom HTML documents.
``` python
html_str = gt_tbl.as_raw_html()
# Show the first 200 characters to see the structure
print(html_str[:200])
```
| Method | Use Case | Output |
|----|----|----|
| show() | Interactive display in notebooks or browser | Rendered display |
| as_raw_html() | Embedding in web apps, emails, or HTML docs | HTML string |
| as_latex() | Inclusion in LaTeX/PDF documents | LaTeX string |
| gtsave() | Static image files for reports and slides | PNG/PDF/JPEG/WebP file |
Each export method preserves the styling, formatting, and structural components you have built into your table. Choose the method that matches your final output medium, and your carefully crafted table will look great wherever it lands.