enable copying of text from figure titles and other text elements of a figure
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Description
This is a feature request. it seems that titles and texts from a figure cannot be copied by the user, at least when they are displayed in a standard browser such as Chrome. For various user workflows, it would be helpful to enable the copy of text fields from figures, which is enabled for almost any text displayed on the web (even without using a framework like Dash for display).
This will enable user flows where going back from plots to data entity names needs to happen without confusion, by copying entity names from titles inside figures being viewed.
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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is identified in the issue. Start by locating the figure text-rendering path in plotly.js and reproduce the behavior in Chrome; done means users can select and copy titles and other figure text without breaking figure interaction.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- d3, javascript
- Domain
- data-visualization, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100