pointNumber passed to Plotly.Fx.Hover() is not used for box plots
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Description
When attempting to build off of the Coupled Hover Events example, I've found that box plots don't appear to make use of the pointNumber property of evt. I did find a workaround that uses xval and yval, but, in addition to being a bit more verbose, it can cause the wrong point to highlight if several are close / overlapping, so some way to specify particular points still seems useful.
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Reproduce the issue using the linked Coupled Hover Events example and CodePen, focusing on Plotly.Fx.Hover() with box plots. Compare the pointNumber behavior with the xval/yval workaround; done means pointNumber reliably highlights the specified box-plot point, including when points overlap.
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- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 3/5
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- 1-2 days
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