Make Value Boxes possible outside of format: dashboard

[gl2324]

Description

I really like the look of the Value Boxes added in Version 1.4

Right now it is not possible to add them in the following way when the format is not dashboard.

#| content: valuebox
#| title: "Articles per day"
#| icon: pencil
#| color: primary
dict(
  value = articles
)

I know there is a way through using R and the bslib-package but I don't have access to R.

Is there an easy way to achieve this or will it be possible in 1.5?

[mcanouil]

The easiest way to get the answer is usually to try.
Note that providing a reproducible example is always better when asking something (see https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html)

Below a 100 % reproducible example showing that value box is a dashboard feature only (also why it is only described in the dashboard part of the documentation, even though it's a work in progress towards the release).

This being said, It might be possible to allow dashboard features in "regular" html for not for 1.4.

CC @dragonstyle is it something doable in 1.5?

---
title: "Quarto Playground"
format: html
---

This is a playground for Quarto.

```{python}
#| content: valuebox
#| title: "Articles per day"
#| icon: pencil
#| color: primary
dict(
  value = "a"
)
```

[dragonstyle]

I think if we have time this is something that could be supported, though I think it will require a bit of investment to separate the processing of value boxes (to generalize this in LUA, likely adding a new custom node) and a small / easy task to inject the proper dependencies.

[mcanouil]

Basically, something similar to callouts if I am not mistaken.

[mcanouil]

I opened an issue to track this:

• Make Value Boxes possible outside of format: dashboard #8475