plotly / plotly/plotly.js

Tooltip for axis tick

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feature P3
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Description

The tick labels for vertical or horizontal axis can be big and we can display elipses when we truncate the tick labels. But there is no built in way to display a tooltip for the axis labels. A tooltip is needed to show the user the labels before truncation.

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Research direction

The issue does not name files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the axis tick-label rendering and truncation behavior, then inspect existing tooltip handling; done means truncated vertical and horizontal tick labels expose their full text in a tooltip.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
data-visualization, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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