Pandas create empty DataFrame with only column names

You can create an empty DataFrame with either column names or an Index:

In [4]: import pandas as pd
In [5]: df = pd.DataFrame(columns=['A','B','C','D','E','F','G'])
In [6]: df
Out[6]:
Empty DataFrame
Columns: [A, B, C, D, E, F, G]
Index: []

Or

In [7]: df = pd.DataFrame(index=range(1,10))
In [8]: df
Out[8]:
Empty DataFrame
Columns: []
Index: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Edit:
Even after your amendment with the .to_html, I can’t reproduce. This:

df = pd.DataFrame(columns=['A','B','C','D','E','F','G'])
df.to_html('test.html')

Produces:

<table border="1" class="dataframe">
  <thead>
    <tr style="text-align: right;">
      <th></th>
      <th>A</th>
      <th>B</th>
      <th>C</th>
      <th>D</th>
      <th>E</th>
      <th>F</th>
      <th>G</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
  </tbody>
</table>