Backported HoloViews docs

examples/reference/panes/HoloViews.ipynb

@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@
     "For layout and styling related parameters see the [customization user guide](../../user_guide/Customization.ipynb).\n",
     "\n",
     "* **``backend``** (str): Any of the supported HoloViews backends ('bokeh', 'matplotlib', or 'plotly')\n",
+    "* **``center``** (boolean): Whether to center the plot\n",
     "* **``object``** (object): The HoloViews object being displayed\n",
+    "* **``widget_location``** (str): Where to lay out the widget relative to the plot \n",
+    "* **``widget_layout``** (ListPanel type): The object to lay the widgets out in, one of ``Row``, ``Column`` or ``WidgetBox``\n",
     "* **``widget_type``** (str): Whether to generate individual widgets for each dimension, or to use a global linear scrubber with dimensions concatenated.\n",
     "* **``widgets``** (dict): A mapping from dimension name to a widget class, instance, or dictionary of overrides to modify the default widgets.\n",
     "\n",
@@ -122,6 +125,32 @@
     "    hv_panel[0])"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "However, more conveniently the HoloViews pane offers options to lay out the plot and widgets in a number of preconfigured arrangements using the ``center`` and ``widget_location`` parameters."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "pn.panel(dmap, center=True, widget_location='right_bottom')"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "The ``widget_location`` parameter accepts all of the following options:\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    ['left', 'bottom', 'right', 'top', 'top_left', 'top_right', 'bottom_left',\n",
+    "     'bottom_right', 'left_top', 'left_bottom', 'right_top', 'right_bottom']"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},

panel/layout.py

@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ def __setitem__(self, index, panes):
                                  (expected, type(self).__name__))
         for i, pane in zip(range(start, end), panes):
             new_objects[i] = panel(pane)
+
         self.objects = new_objects
 
     def clone(self, *objects, **params):