How to hide legend with Plotly Express and Plotly
Solution 1
try this:
my_data = [go.Bar( x = df.Publisher, y = df.Views)]
my_layout = go.Layout({"title": "Views by publisher",
"yaxis": {"title":"Views"},
"xaxis": {"title":"Publisher"},
"showlegend": False})
fig = go.Figure(data = my_data, layout = my_layout)
py.iplot(fig)
- the argument
showlegend
is part of layout object which you did not specify in your code - The code may also work if you do not wrap the layout object
my_layout
inside ago.Layout()
. It could work by simply keepingmy_layout
a dictionary - as for
plotly.express
, tryfig.update_layout(showlegend=False)
. All the arguments are the same. Accessing them varies slightly.
Hope it works for you.
Solution 2
After creating the figure in plotly, to disable the legend you can make use of this command:
fig.update_layout(showlegend=False)
For Advanced users: You can also enable/disable the legend for individual traces in a figure by setting the showlegend property of each trace. For instance:
fig.add_trace(go.Scatter(
x=[1, 2],
y=[1, 2],
showlegend=False))
You can view the examples here: https://plotly.com/python/legend/
Solution 3
The issue with your original code is that fig.update()
doesn't take fig
as an argument. That line could just be fig.update(layout_showlegend=False)
krazykrejza
Updated on March 09, 2021Comments
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krazykrejza about 3 years
I am trying to learn Plotly by firstly creating a simple bar chart in Plotly Express and then updating it with Plotly to finesse it. I would like to hide the legend.
I am trying to update the original figure by hiding the legend, and I can't get it to work. This is my traceback error.
And my code
import plotly.plotly as py import plotly.graph_objs as go import plotly_express as px import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv('C:/Users/Documents/Python/CKANMay.csv') fig = px.bar(df, x="Publisher", y="Views", color="Publisher", barmode="overlay") fig.update(fig, showlegend="false")
This is what the chart looks like now with the legend. Basically, I want that awful legend on the right to go away
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krazykrejza almost 5 yearsWorks perfectly. Thanks!
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s2t2 almost 5 yearscan also customize via
fig.update_layout(legend={"xanchor":"center", "yanchor":"top"})
Docs: plot.ly/python/reference/#layout-legend -
guyts over 4 yearsThis does not answer the question entirely - how does one hide the legend in Plotly Express?