# Annotation, Ticks, and Range chart cutoff

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/annotation-ticks-and-range-chart-cutoff/51805>\
**Category:** 📊 Plotly Python\
**Created:** [April 7, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/annotation-ticks-and-range-chart-cutoff/51805 "2021-04-07T17:31:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![houtanb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/houtanb/32/12081_2.png) [@houtanb](https://community.plotly.com/u/houtanb)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/annotation-ticks-and-range-chart-cutoff/51805/1 "2021-04-07T17:31:15Z")

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The code below produces the chart that precedes it. Here are several questions about it:

1. The yaxis range is `[0,5]` and the xaxis range is `[0,2]`. This cuts off half the line from (0,0) to (0,3) and three-quarters of the marker at (2,5). Removing the range results in too much padding in the chart. Is there a way to control the amount of padding in the chart area?
2. `yaxis2` has the tick labels “Three”, “Four”, and “Five”, however “Five” is not shown. It’s not even cutoff, it’s just not shown even though `ticklabelposition = "inside"`. Why is this? How can I use both the `range` option and show a tick label on the inside of a chart?
3. The annotations “Zero”, “One”, and “Two” are shown above the trace layer. Is there a way to move them below the trace layer but above the shape layer? If not, is there a way to provide a background color for tick labels? My goal is to hide the portion of the gray line shape that is behind the annotation/tick label.
4. Despite having `yref='y',yanchor='middle'`, the annotations “Zero”, “One”, and “Two” are slightly lower than the 0, 1, and 2 ticks on the y axis. Why is this? Shouldn’t they align perfectly with these ticks given these options?

 ![Screen Shot 2021-04-07 at 13.15.02](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/plot/original/2X/5/520d71bf7afdf24a43a5075a14637b82846ff45b.jpeg)

```auto
import datetime
import plotly.graph_objects as go

xvals=[0,0,0,0,1,2]
yvals=[0,1,2,3,4,5]

fig = go.Figure()

fig.add_trace(
    go.Scatter(
        x=xvals,
        y=yvals,
        line_width=4,
        marker_size=10,
        showlegend=False,
    ),
)

fig.add_trace(
    go.Scatter(
        x=xvals,
        y=yvals,
        mode="none",
        yaxis="y2",
        hoverinfo="skip",
        showlegend = False,
    )
)

fig.update_layout(
    go.Layout(
        paper_bgcolor='rgba(0,0,0,0)',
        plot_bgcolor='rgba(0,0,0,0)',
        yaxis=dict(
            ticks="outside",
            tickcolor='white',
            ticklen=7,
            tickmode='array',
            tickvals=yvals,
            range=[min(yvals),max(yvals)],
            showgrid=False,
        ),
        yaxis2=dict(
            ticks="outside",
            ticklen=7,
            tickmode = 'array',
            tickvals = [3,4,5],
            ticktext = ["Three","Four","Five"],
            range=[min(yvals),max(yvals)],
            layer="below traces",
            ticklabelposition ="inside",
            anchor="x",
            overlaying="y",
            side="left",
            showgrid=False,
        ),
        xaxis=dict(
            tickmode="linear",
            ticklen=7,
            showgrid=False,
            range=[min(xvals),max(xvals)],
        ),
    ),
)

# add lines
color = "black"
for y in yvals:
    fig.add_shape(
        type="line",
        xref="paper",
        x0=0,
        y0=y,
        x1=1,
        y1=y,
        layer="below",
        line=dict(
            color=color,
            width=0.5,
            dash="solid",
        )
    )

# add annotations
annotations=[]
for y,text in zip([0,1,2],["Zero","One","Two"]):
    annotations.append(
        dict(
            xref='paper',
            yref='y',
            x=0,
            y=y,
            xanchor='left',
            yanchor='middle',
            text=text,
            bgcolor='white',
            showarrow=False,
        ),
    )
fig.update_layout(annotations=annotations)

fig.show()

```