Stacked bar with positive and negative values

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Hi guys,

I have data for a stacked bar with both positive and negative values. I would like the negative values to render below the x axis and stack and the positive values to render above the x axis and stack. I have tried stack and overlay MODE and in both cases at least one of my datapoints is being hidden behind another bar. MODE = group renders as expected with negative values below the line. Is this a bug?

Sounds like a similar unresolved problem here:

http://community.plotly.com/t/when-i-am-ploting-a-stacked-bar-chart-with-both-ve-ve-values-using-ployly-js-the-value-in-stacked-bar-is-coming-as-the-substraction-of-ve-value-from-ve-value-but-it-should-come-on-both-side-of-x-axis-wrt-y-axix-ve-ve-value-plz-suggest/497

Many thanks.

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This is the intended behaviour of the stack and overlay bar modes at the moment.

Your use case seems pretty common, I’m thinking we add another barmode value e.g. 'stack-relative'

Please subscribe to https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/475 for the latest development info.

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That would be awesome. Thanks.

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What are the use cases of the “intended behaviour” ?

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A new barmode has been added in the latest plotly.js release.

This example http://codepen.io/etpinard/pen/mPGLrY? compares the different barmode values.