Show only exact x matches in hover with hovermode="x unified"
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Description
Currently, if there are two traces a, b with hovermode="x unified", then a value from trace b can be shown in the hoverinfo even when I am hovering on a x coordinate where there is no point in trace b, but only in trace a, see picture, where hovering over point from trace a with x=3 shows point from trace b with x=3.05.
I would like a way to enforce that only points with exactly matching x coordinates are shown in the hover (something like hovermode="x unified exact"?).
Code to generate figure from the screenshot:
fig = go.Figure(
layout=go.Layout(hovermode="x unified"),
data=[
go.Scatter(
x=[1, 3],
y=[1, 1],
name="a",
),
go.Scatter(
x=[1, 3.05],
y=[2, 2],
name="b",
),
],
)
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Research direction
Start with the provided go.Figure reproduction and its layout hovermode="x unified" setting, then trace the hover matching behavior used by the graphing implementation. Done means a supported option or mode shows only traces with exactly matching x coordinates, while preserving the existing unified hover behavior for other cases.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
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- 3-5 days
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