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Remove Aa in legends with text? #2967
Description
I've worked on a few client projects with Dash where the client asked that the Aa in the legend be removed. To do so, I had to create a set of new traces on top of the existing traces without the text key, and then remove the legend item from the original traces, i.e.:
[
{x: [1, 2, 3], y: [3, 1, 2], text: ['a', 'b', 'c'], 'showlegend': false, 'legendgroup': 'trace-1', marker: {color: 'blue'}},
{x: [1], y: [3], 'showlegend': true, 'legendgroup': 'trace-1', marker: {color: 'blue'}},
]And in the community, some users don't understand why or how the Aa appears (https://community.plot.ly/t/dash-legend-label-extrange-behavoiur-scatterplot/13255).
- Could we just remove it by default? I feel like the number of folks that want it removed outweighs the number of folks that see the benefit of having it, although I only have anecdotal evidence.
- If not, could we make a new key to remove it?
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alexcjohnson commentedon Sep 3, 2018
It's hard to tell, given the selection bias (we'll only ever hear from the people who don't like it).
Definitely. I wonder if we can do something generic like
legendstyle: {mode: 'lines+markers'}so you could modify any of the relevant style attributes? Related: #1701 - though I'm not sure if that would quite fit intolegendstyle, as the label doesn't exist on the plot itself.eunaka commentedon Feb 13, 2019
I solved adding to the global style:
g.pointtext {
display: none;
}
etpinard commentedon Apr 5, 2019
Now in #2967Now in #3735
pdfabbro commentedon Jul 23, 2019
Why would anybody ever want "Aa" to show up in the legend?? Having it blank or configurable should be the default behaviour.
z7ye commentedon Oct 8, 2019
is this issue ever fixed please?
pdfabbro commentedon Oct 9, 2019
Nope.
nicolaskruchten commentedon May 26, 2021
Please note that in the upcoming v2 of the library, this Aa text will no longer appear in the legend: #5682
jaimeMontea commentedon May 31, 2021
I'm interested. Do you know when it is going to be released? Thanks.
nicolaskruchten commentedon May 31, 2021
Working on the release now, should be a week or so