Legend text overlapping Labels of Y axis when legends set tot left of Chart
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Description
When legends are left aligned to the chart and Y axis labels have long string. The legend and labels text seems to overlap each other

The reason behind seems the way marginPushers are calculated and the labels are rendered. Labels are rendered considering the anchor point for the text as "start" or "end" based on the side where the labels are displayed. In case of labels being displayed on left the text-anchor is set to "right" while the rest of the whole calculations for the charts does not consider this and all the other layers are rendered without considering the extra space that will be required for the labels to render themselves taking space from right to left (read here. When labels are on right we should consider them as margin pushers and calculate them for transformation/axis translations of all layers of the Charts such as zeroline/grid/plots etc,
Please share your point of view or any workarounds, if can be used.
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Research direction
Start by tracing how marginPushers are calculated and how Y-axis labels and left-aligned legends are rendered, focusing on the SVG text-anchor behavior described in the issue. Reproduce the chart with long left-side Y-axis labels and a left-aligned legend; done means the legend, labels, zeroline, grid, plots, and axis translations no longer overlap.
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- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 4/5
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- 3-5 days
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- Mostly clear
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