plotly/plotly.js

Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash

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Indexed issues: 713
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Dominant language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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713 open issues indexed

Add 2D triangulation plot Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#4509 · 6 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jan 23, 2020
Add option to always show annotations arrow Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#4505 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 22, 2020
allow users to choose contour levels in the contour and surface plot Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#4503 · 2 comments · 19 reactions · Opened Jan 22, 2020
arrange stacked bars in reverse order Open

feature P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#4493 · 5 reactions · Opened Jan 16, 2020
add textangle to table Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#4492 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 16, 2020
Add option to swap 3d axes (plot orientation) Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#4487 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 15, 2020
generate events for plotly_log, plotly_warn, plotly_error Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#4462 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 6, 2020
add stacked waterfall charts Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

plotly/plotly.js#4450 · 10 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 29, 2019
Rangeslider range expands beyond data range and can’t be reset Open

bug P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

plotly/plotly.js#4417 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 8, 2019
image and heatmap traces jump/flash on Firefox and Safari Open

bug P3 performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#4377 · 16 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2019
keep axis lines and labels always at the same place with 3d axes Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#4342 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 8, 2019
missing data should be skipped in parcoords Open

bug P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

plotly/plotly.js#4341 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 8, 2019
Grouped legend alignment issue from 1.50 Open

bug P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#4336 · 9 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2019
Add 3d markers for 3d scatter plots (3d glyphs) Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#4329 · 6 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Nov 1, 2019
Improve hover behavior for overlapping points in scatterplot Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

plotly/plotly.js#4294 · 20 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 22, 2019
Rangeslider not working in fullscreen Open

bug P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

plotly/plotly.js#4259 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 8, 2019
Handle null data values in isosurface and volume Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#4192 · 9 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2019
graph should handle the case where the display area is significantly small Open

bug P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

plotly/plotly.js#4155 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 28, 2019
Allow indexing data in pmeta using x and y coordinates Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#4145 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2019
Scatter3d points are not sorted in depth within one trace when having alpha Open

bug P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#4111 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2019
text annotations with with hrefs containing encoded characters such as '#' break links Open

bug P2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

plotly/plotly.js#4084 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 28, 2019
Spike Line Toggle to stay On-Action Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#4052 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2019
add swarm plot Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#4021 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2019
scattergl fill tozero fails in some weird ways Open

bug good for agent P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#4017 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2019
pan with mouse wheel pressed + box zoom on left button Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#4004 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2019
Disable Diagonal Selection on cartesian zoombox drag Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#3923 · 6 comments · Opened May 30, 2019
'follow-me' hovers Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#3899 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 23, 2019
display only category label on axis for multicategory plots Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#3884 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 21, 2019
timezone-aware data and axes Open

feature P2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

plotly/plotly.js#3870 · 13 comments · 5 reactions · Opened May 16, 2019
scattergeo should automatically increase resolution on zoom Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#3835 · 2 comments · Opened May 5, 2019
Implement lat/lon data-referenced annotations on geo and mapbox subplots Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

plotly/plotly.js#3834 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 5, 2019
3D Scatter Plot marker->line->width attribute appears to be broken on some hardware Open

bug P2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

plotly/plotly.js#3796 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 21, 2019
add trace `legendItem` styles Open

cs feature P2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#3735 · 11 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Apr 5, 2019
Multi-category sorting misbehaves with missing categories Open

bug P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#3723 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2019
Implement error bars on date axis Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#3722 · 9 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Apr 4, 2019
add selectable shapes or absolute marker sizes Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#3682 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 25, 2019
Table text wrap is not working when "<br>" used for line breaks Open

bug P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

plotly/plotly.js#3658 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 20, 2019
add Puerto Rico and other territories to U.S. states geo choropleth Open

feature P2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#3636 · 14 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2019
add formatting options for exponentformat: "power" to provide normalised scientific notation Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#3633 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 13, 2019
Align links of same label in Sankey diagrams Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#3568 · 8 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2019
add more 3d point selection options Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

plotly/plotly.js#3511 · 10 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Feb 4, 2019
add more transition types Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#3456 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 22, 2019
Auto center/zoom for scattermapbox Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#3434 · 12 comments · 24 reactions · Opened Jan 14, 2019
fillcolor opacity attribute Open

feature P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

plotly/plotly.js#3344 · 7 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Dec 17, 2018
Surface graph has issue with small time ranges Open

bug P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#3306 · 23 comments · Opened Dec 4, 2018
color links with gradients in Sankey plots Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

plotly/plotly.js#3261 · 8 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Nov 19, 2018
Table align = 'center' not aligning long header/cell values Open

bug P2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#3251 · 1 comment · 5 reactions · Opened Nov 16, 2018
Transparent faces in mesh plots overlap incorrectly Open

bug P2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

plotly/plotly.js#3243 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 14, 2018
Cannot run jsdom unit tests for files that import Plotly due to missing browser functions Open

bug P2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

plotly/plotly.js#3239 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 13, 2018
Add `line.shape: 'spline'` support to scattergl Open

feature good for agent P2 size: 3

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

plotly/plotly.js#3229 · 12 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 8, 2018

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