hovertemplate not rendering text for single items in the plot
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Description
When using hovertemplate in bar charts to annotate bars,
if the variable is present only once then text annotation doesn't work
For example in below image, Type B is only present once
and when hovered on it shows as "%{text}

but when using hoverinfo it seems to work fine

I need to use hovertemplate, as i had to use it in a function, where color and text options are passed as variable
any workaround to fix this?
Reproducible code example
library(data.table)
library(plotly)
data <- data.table(Date = c(rep(as.Date("2022-10-18"), 3),
rep(as.Date("2022-10-19"), 3),
rep(as.Date("2022-10-20"), 3)),
Type = c('A', 'B', 'C', 'A', 'D', 'C', 'C', 'D', 'A'),
Frequency = c(6, 3, 6, 10, 9, 9, 9, 3, 2))
# hovertemplate - Type B is only one entry and it shows as %{text}
plot_ly(data, x=~Date, y=~Frequency, color=~Type, type='bar', text=~Type,
hovertemplate=paste('<b>%{text}</b>',
'<br><b>%{y}</b>',
'<br><b>%{x}</b>',
'<extra></extra>')) %>%
layout(barmode="stack")
# hoverinfo - works as expected
plot_ly(data, x=~Date, y=~Frequency, color=~Type, type='bar',
hoverinfo = 'text',
text = ~paste('<b>', Type, '</b>',
'<br><b>', Date, '</b>',
'<br><b>', Frequency, '</b>')) %>%
layout(barmode="stack")
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Research direction
Run the reproducible R example from the issue and compare the hovertemplate and hoverinfo outputs, focusing on the single Type B bar. Trace the Plotly rendering path used by the R package; done when hovertemplate displays the Type B text instead of the literal %{text}.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- plotly, r
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100