# Customize Heatmap Hoover

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/customize-heatmap-hoover/1689>\
**Category:** Plotly Fundamentals\
**Created:** [July 29, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/customize-heatmap-hoover/1689 "2016-07-29T09:56:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![boko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@boko](https://community.plotly.com/u/boko)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/customize-heatmap-hoover/1689/1 "2016-07-29T09:56:41Z")

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Hi plotly team,

I have a heat map and the hoover always shows labels X,Y,Z. Is there some way to customize this labels and put my own? The problem is that I have a huge data set and I don’t want to make trace(s) only for hoover purpose.

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**Author:** ![etienne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/etienne/32/17_2.png) [@etienne](https://community.plotly.com/u/etienne)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/customize-heatmap-hoover/1689/2 "2016-07-29T17:27:05Z")

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Try setting the `text` attribute in the trace together with `hoverinfo: 'text'`.