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Display tooltips on zero value bars

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Description

This is a follow-up to #3797 .

I am using ggplotly in R, not using plotly directly, so I'm not including a reproducible example, but I think the issue is straightforward.

The tooltip (using the "text" specified in the ggplot command) does not appear in barplots when the bar height is equal to 0. The issue cited above notes the same thing in the last comment, posted after that issue had been resolved/closed.

If the tooltip only included the value of the bar height, this would not be a problem. But we often use the tooltip to display multiple values. In my specific case, the bar height shows year-to-year percentage change for each state, and the tooltip includes both the pct chg and the raw number for the current year. The raw number provides useful interpretive context because there is a wide range of raw values, and small values lead to more variable/extreme pct changes. For the states with pct chg=0, no tooltip is shown, so we lose the information on raw number that would help provide context. Screenshot below for example.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing a bar chart with zero-height bars and custom tooltip text in plotly.js, then read the related issue #3797 and compare its behavior. The work is done when zero-value bars display their configured tooltip content, including values beyond the bar height.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
data-visualization
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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