question: Is it possible to disable interaction with a plot?

[lyschoening]

I understand that the interactivity of Plotly is one of the things that make it so powerful, but there are a few situations when a static plot might be preferable. Are there ways to toggle (a) visibility of the modebar and (b) panning/zooming?

[etpinard]

This can be done using one of Plotly.plot's (currently poorly documented) config arguments.

The full list is found here: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/src/plot_api/plot_config.jshttps://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/src/plot_api/plot_config.js

Plotly.plot(graphDiv, data, layout, {staticPlot: true})

should do the trick.

Moreover, note that in svg 2d plots, individual axis can be made fixed using the fixedrange attribute: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/src/plots/cartesian/layout_attributes.js#L84 .

[lyschoening]

Thank you for pointing me to the code for this. I can see there's also a displayModeBar option, so that answers all my questions.

[chriddyp]

FYI, here are some examples of most of the configuration options: https://plot.ly/javascript/configuration-options/

[fizcris]

Is this option available in python offline version?

[hadhoryth]

Yes, for python is also possible, just pass "config" dict to the plot.

Pyplot.plot(data, config={'displayModeBar':False, ....})

[PabloBotas]

Can this be done for a specific trace?

There might be a better approach for what I want:

1. as trace0 lot of scatter points as background without interactivity or legend
2. as trace1, some selected subset with full interactivity

[etpinard]

@PabloBotas you can adding your own custom legend click handlers. See #2581

[rageycomma]

If you pass staticPlot: true, you can't disable it. So if you're creating a plot and want to disable it until data is received, even if you pass staticPlot: false afterwards, data doesn't update. So, this doesn't really resolve the issue of disabling user interaction for plots that are updated frequently.

[j-madrone]

In case anyone comes looking for this feature like I did for Choropleth plots:

• The option to disable panning: dragMode=False in the layout property
• The option to disable scrolling: scrollZoom=False in the config property
• The option to disable map controls: displayModeBar=False in the config property

[xanderwallace85]

In case anyone comes looking for this feature like I did for Choropleth plots:

• The option to disable panning: dragMode=False in the layout property
• The option to disable scrolling: scrollZoom=False in the config property
• The option to disable map controls: displayModeBar=False in the config property

Hi @jaspersardonicus ! Which module did you use for the Choropleth map? When relying on plotly.express dragMode=False throws an error when placed in the layout :(

[j-madrone]

@xanderwallace85 I used from plotly import graph_objects as go and constructed the map with fig = go.Choropleth()

[xanderwallace85]

@xanderwallace85 I used from plotly import graph_objects as go and constructed the map with fig = go.Choropleth()

@jaspersardonicus Thanks! Have you also tried to disable pan/drag with plotly.express?

[j-madrone]

Not yet. I haven't even used plotly.express yet, sorry!

[marysteffin]

fig.show(config=dict({'staticPlot':True}))

Looks like that works for offline plots.