plotly/plotly.js

Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash

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Open beginner issues: 3
Indexed issues: 713
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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 issues indexed so far

hide values in stacked area chart to avoid zero padding to clean up hovertool Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5592 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 18, 2021
provide legend.grouporientation Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5580 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 6, 2021
Sunburst leaf opacity does not apply to black text Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5568 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 25, 2021
Scatter3D does not remember its visual state in certain conditions Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5560 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 21, 2021
Bars disappear when other traces have `cliponaxis: false` Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5558 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 19, 2021
Broken text transitions for sunburst/treemap charts Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5547 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2021
strange jumps when zooming on real time chart Open

bug

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

plotly/plotly.js#7438 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 10, 2021
enable tonexty without fallback to tozeroy Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5538 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 9, 2021
hovertemplate array with empty string produces console error Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5529 · Opened Mar 1, 2021
Hover text not working with table Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5523 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 23, 2021
Offer JavaScript support for built-in colorways or scales defined by name Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5519 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 23, 2021
Range Selector buttons causes view to go out of bounds Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5515 · Opened Feb 21, 2021
support pseudo-html tags in scattergl text Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5496 · Opened Feb 12, 2021
show the value when the spike and the dataset line crosses in the X axis Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5488 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 10, 2021
plotly_click handler return value is ignored, no way to cancel event processing from custom handler Open

bug P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

plotly/plotly.js#5477 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 8, 2021
hover is not displayed in the case of overflow Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5459 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 2, 2021
Double clicks not recognized through the trackpad Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5448 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 27, 2021
Focusing an annotation while editing another annotation places the editable text elsewhere Open

bug good for agent P2

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

plotly/plotly.js#5434 · Opened Jan 22, 2021
demo code is not responsive Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5396 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 12, 2021
Yaxis values remain after plotly.react call is made to modify the data of a chart with orientation="h" Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5381 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2021
Add "stackgroup" to Scattergl to enable stacked area plots as is now implemented for Scatter Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5365 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 2, 2021
Plotly does not correctly redraw text items when updated through Plotly.react() Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5360 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 24, 2020
Console error, "Excepted Number NaN" with LegendOnly attribute Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5344 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2020
Showticklabels=false and title_standoff not None moves xaxis-title to top Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#6552 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 14, 2020
Funnel plot text does not position itself properly Open

bug P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

plotly/plotly.js#7756 · 7 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Dec 12, 2020
odd double-click behaviour with inside ticks Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5338 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 10, 2020
enable text selection on plots Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5320 · 2 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Dec 6, 2020
Plots are initially displayed with a wrong margin in Chrome Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5312 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2020
zoom behaves incorrectly when dragging with right mouse button held down Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5311 · 2 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Dec 1, 2020
Expose MapLibre compass and scale bar Open

feature P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

plotly/plotly.js#5295 · 2 comments · 22 reactions · Opened Nov 20, 2020
error with array buffer allocation failure Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5278 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 14, 2020
diffConfig always returns true if modeBarButtons (array of array) is populated Open

bug P3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

plotly/plotly.js#5273 · Opened Nov 13, 2020
provide option to draw grid above traces Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5265 · 4 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Nov 11, 2020
support arrays of color and colorscale for line and fillcolor of `plotly.graph_objects.Scatter` Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5259 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 10, 2020
support dates and category on colorbars Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5249 · Opened Nov 4, 2020
allow widths as periods Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5179 · Opened Sep 30, 2020
Add Cyprus to Europe map Open

feature P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

plotly/plotly.js#5140 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2020
Make cartesian axis endpoint drag elements visible to the end users Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5116 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2020
Chart title does not obey responsive layout Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5109 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 30, 2020
allow multiple legends by size, symbol, color etc Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5099 · 9 comments · 49 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2020
Hover box overlapping point/cursor Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5097 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2020
toImage function does not retain fonts that use quotes because of TOBESTRIPPED Open

bug P2

plotly/plotly.js#5096 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2020
plotly_doubleclick not firing when dragmode not in [zoom, pan, orbit, turntable, False] Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5094 · Opened Aug 23, 2020
Support control over gaps between outer layers of multicategory axes Open

feature P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5080 · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 14, 2020
fixedrange doesn't take into account matches Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5064 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2020
title standoff bug when zooming Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5063 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2020
problem with 3d camera and uirevision Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5050 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 5, 2020
Shapes are drawn outside the plot when using annotations and autorange. Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5017 · Opened Jul 23, 2020
3d camera reset after react Open

bug P3 regression

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

plotly/plotly.js#5005 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 21, 2020
Bug in displaying the text defined in hovertemplate for Surface Open

bug P3

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

plotly/plotly.js#5003 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 21, 2020

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