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Dividers between subplots #977
Description
It is currently not possible (or at least documented) on how to add borders to subplots.
When using plotly js to make facet plots with shared axes, they are far too difficult to use (even with a simple 2x2 data matrix) because the users cannot distinguish between plots.
If subplots could have borders, this would greatly increase the usability of js facet plots.
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etpinard commentedon Sep 27, 2016
Could you clarify what you mean by border on subplots? If you could share a few screenshots, that would be very helpful. Thanks.
etpinard commentedon Oct 3, 2016
@Chris7 can you help us out a little?
Chris7 commentedon Oct 3, 2016
Sorry about this -- got caught up with things. Here's a fiddle example:
https://jsfiddle.net/f2nt55dy/2/
The idea is to have a cross divider between the lines to distinguish between subplots. Some data configurations make it very difficult to distinguish between plots (especially when it goes to a 3x3 or 4x4 matrix!)
etpinard commentedon Oct 4, 2016
You mean something like https://jsfiddle.net/f2nt55dy/3/ ?
Chris7 commentedon Oct 4, 2016
Ooo, clever. I like it.
I know there are a ton of feature requests, but having something that specified that plot options like borders apply at a 'per subplot' level as well as a 'per entire plot' level (similar to how you can segment legends into tracegroups) would be nice. Feel free to close this or if you want to add a note for a feature request keep it open.
Thanks @etpinard !
etpinard commentedon Oct 4, 2016
I'll leave it open. Thanks for taking the time to write us.
One thing that makes this issue a little harder to implement is that plotly.js doesn't currently expose the notion of a cartesian subplot. plotly.js subplots are simply pairs of x/y axes.
So, we can't just add a
layout.subplot[0].border: trueattribute.But at some point, we are planning on adding some subplot generating transform. Maybe subplot borders could be set as an option there.
lgervich commentedon Jul 29, 2019
Are there any updates related to this issue?
gvwilson commentedon Jun 5, 2024
Hi - this issue has been sitting for a while, so as part of our effort to tidy up our public repositories I'm going to close it. If it's still a concern, we'd be grateful if you could open a new issue (with a short reproducible example if appropriate) so that we can add it to our stack. Cheers - @gvwilson