plotly/plotly.js

Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash

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Open beginner issues: 3
Indexed issues: 713
Avg merge: 2d 12h
Merged PRs (30d): 28

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

[FEATURE]: Fix Hover Text In Place On Click Open

feature

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

plotly/plotly.js#7578 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 9, 2025
[BUG]: Weird behavior x-axis with log scale Open

bug

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

plotly/plotly.js#7569 · Opened Oct 1, 2025
[FEATURE]: Better error message for axis scaling. Open

feature

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

plotly/plotly.js#7568 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2025
[Feature Request] Add custom label anchor for Sankey graphs Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7562 · Opened Sep 19, 2025
[FEATURE]: Highlight data feature when selected in the Legend Open

cs feature P2

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

plotly/plotly.js#7561 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 19, 2025
[BUG]: I cannot have reliable way of positioning title and legend on top without overlapping each other Open

bug

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

plotly/plotly.js#7556 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2025
Cannot display a tooltip label showing the two values of the two series together without also merging the label Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7547 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2025
Grouped bar chart leaves gaps when some traces have no values for an x-axis tick Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7546 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2025
Strip down bundled Maplibre CSS Open

feature P2

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

plotly/plotly.js#7544 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2025
Revisit Plotly.js compatibility with strict CSP Open

feature P2

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

plotly/plotly.js#7543 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2025
Polar plots force directional theta (prevents creation of loops) Open

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

plotly/plotly.js#7537 · Opened Aug 27, 2025
maxdisplayed for markers in scattermap Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7525 · Opened Aug 18, 2025
Ternary Contour Plots in JavaScript Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

plotly/plotly.js#7519 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2025
Boxplot has horizontal axis ticks overlap axis title Open

bug P2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#7515 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Feature Request: Add vertical spacing option between plot and rangeslider Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7510 · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Feature request: support `colorbar.title.text` alignment Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7508 · Opened Aug 5, 2025
Switch CDN topojson maps to UN sourced data Open

feature P2

plotly/plotly.js#7505 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 1, 2025
`responsive` doesn't work if a parent has padding and `min-width: min-content` Open

bug P2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#7491 · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Performance issues with many traces compared to single traces Open

cs P1

plotly/plotly.js#7489 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 22, 2025
Feature request: access to layers and subplots with stable API Open

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

plotly/plotly.js#7488 · Opened Jul 22, 2025
Dragging shape with xref "x2" results in wrong final position Open

bug P1

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#7472 · Opened Jul 17, 2025
Update US/Canada border to use higher resolution Open

feature P1

plotly/plotly.js#7467 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 14, 2025
Upgrading to plotly ^3- Angular build fails with this Webpack error: java Copy Edit Module parse failed: Unexpected token (1:0) You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type Open

bug P2

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

plotly/plotly.js#7466 · Opened Jul 14, 2025
Feature request / Focus reset on Treemap during live updates Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7464 · Opened Jul 10, 2025
Tooltip for axis tick Open

feature P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

plotly/plotly.js#7462 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 8, 2025
Need scrollbar when having many data in a boxplot to go over the data smooth Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7461 · Opened Jul 8, 2025
[FEATURE]: Provide a way to enable aligning the 0-point of overlaid axes Open

feature P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#7454 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 3, 2025
render contour with custom thresholds Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7453 · Opened Jul 3, 2025
Locale dictionary not being included even though they exist Open

bug P1

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

plotly/plotly.js#7450 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 26, 2025
Filled area in scatterplot does not honor null values Open

bug P2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#7448 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 25, 2025
Use newer version of Maki icons for scattermapbox plots Open

feature P3

plotly/plotly.js#7447 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 24, 2025
Sankey Diagram : show node labels on the right side of the node Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7445 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 17, 2025
add option for users to display node labels in boxes in Sankey charts Open

feature P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#7444 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 17, 2025
Lazy Loading Plotly from CDN does not populate the `window.Plotly` namespace Open

feature P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

plotly/plotly.js#7442 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2025
Scroll zoom does not work properly when minimum and maximum range is enabled Open

bug P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

plotly/plotly.js#7440 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 13, 2025
3D polar bar chart Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7436 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 11, 2025
Better docstrings for geojson attributes Open

documentation feature P2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#7435 · Opened Jun 6, 2025
not support extremely small number Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7426 · 6 comments · Opened May 27, 2025
Cross origin fonts significantly slow down rendering Open

bug P2 performance

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

plotly/plotly.js#7424 · 3 comments · Opened May 21, 2025
Add intro animations to basic plotly charts Open

community feature P1 P2

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

plotly/plotly.js#7422 · 2 comments · Opened May 19, 2025
Invalid property specified for object of type plotly.graph_objs.scattermap.Textfont: 'shadow' Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7419 · Opened May 7, 2025
Automatically shift bottom legend down if the x-axis labels rotate / get longer Open

bug community P1

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

plotly/plotly.js#7415 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2025
Unsorted tickvals do not avoid ticktext overlaps Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#7414 · 2 reactions · Opened May 5, 2025
Axis labels and tick labels in 3D plots do not use fonts loaded from remote server Open

bug P2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#7413 · 3 comments · Opened May 2, 2025
Ability to make points or bar sections editable (ideally with drag and drop) Open

cs feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7410 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 30, 2025
Geographic maps 3d bars Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#7409 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 28, 2025
Printing a HTML with a chart Open

bug P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

plotly/plotly.js#7403 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 13, 2025
Plot exported as PNG: low resolution Open

bug P2

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

plotly/plotly.js#7402 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2025
show tooltip when hovering over selected points on scatter plot Open

bug feature P2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

plotly/plotly.js#7399 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 7, 2025
Right click triggers drag event on some machines & fails to fire `plotly_click` Open

bug P2

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

plotly/plotly.js#7398 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 31, 2025

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