# Adding text to a bar graph

**URL:** https://community.plotly.com/t/adding-text-to-a-bar-graph/871
**Category:** 📊 Plotly Python
**Created:** [April 19, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/adding-text-to-a-bar-graph/871 "2016-04-19T00:24:22Z")
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### Author: ![Lionlightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@Lionlightning](https://community.plotly.com/u/Lionlightning)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/adding-text-to-a-bar-graph/871/1 "2016-04-19T00:24:22Z")

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Hey guys, pretty basic question, how do I add text inside a bar graph at the top of my columns?

I am using Python API.

Thanks!

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### Author: ![xianyang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/8491ac/32.png) [@xianyang](https://community.plotly.com/u/xianyang)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/adding-text-to-a-bar-graph/871/2 "2016-04-19T02:25:11Z")

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I think you can try annotation  
[https://plot.ly/python/line-charts/#Label-Lines-with-Annotations](https://plot.ly/python/line-charts/#Label-Lines-with-Annotations)