plotly / plotly/react-plotly.js
Horizontal legend entrywidth does not adjust to font size on initial render
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Description
When initially rendering the component, when set to orientation "h", the legend entries do not adjust their size correctly based on the font size set in the layout.
Example:
`
export const Test = (): ReactElement => {
const data : Data[] =[
{
x: [1, 2, 3],
y: [2, 6, 3],
name: "my example scatter chart",
type: 'scatter',
mode: 'lines+markers',
marker: {color: 'red'},
},
{type: 'bar', name:"my example bar chart", x: [1, 2, 3], y: [2, 5, 3]},
]
const layout = {
width: 1350,
height: 950,
hoverlabel: {
bgcolor: "#555555",
font: {
family: "Open Sans",
size: 14
}
},
legend: {
x: 0.25,
y: -0.35,
orientation: "h" as any,
font: {
family: 'Open Sans',
size: 24,
color: '#555555'
},
entrywidth:0,
},
xaxis: {
showline: false,
zeroline: false,
title: {
text: 'x',
font: {
family: 'Open Sans',
size: 14,
color: '#555555'
}
},
},
yaxis: {
showline: false,
zeroline: false,
title: {
text: 'y',
font: {
family: 'Open Sans',
size: 14,
color: '#555555'
}
}
}
}
return (<Plot
layout={layout}
data={data}
/>)
}
`

If I adjust the font size property of the layout object after the initial render, it corrects itself.

Any guidance or help would be greatly appreciated.
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Research direction
Start with the initial render path for the component and the horizontal legend sizing behavior described in the example. Reproduce the chart with orientation "h" and a 24px legend font, then compare it with the result after changing the font size; done means entry widths match the configured font on the initial render.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, react
- Domain
- data-visualization, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100