Dropdown menu position

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I am trying to use a dropdown menu to switch between linear and logarithmic scales on the X axis of my plot and I can’t understand how to specify the menu’s position.

The docs say that the position of the menu is defined in the normalized coordinates and can be anchored to a specific point (e.g. ‘left’, ‘center’). It works fine until I use the menu to switch the axis scale from log to linear or vice versa. This provokes the menu to jump horizontally. The things get even worse if I add a second menu to switch the Y axis between linear and logarithmic scales. Both menus jump horizontally and I can’t say which one is which.

Here is a minimal code to reproduce this behavior:

import plotly.graph_objects as go

x = list(range(1000))
y = [i*i for i in x]

fig = go.Figure()
fig.add_trace(go.Scatter(x=x, y=y))

# Add dropdowns
fig.update_layout(
    updatemenus=[
        # X scale (lin/log)
        dict(
            buttons=list([
                dict(label="linear", 
                      method="relayout", 
                      args=[{'xaxis.type': "linear"}]),
                 dict(label="log",  
                      method="relayout", 
                      args=[{'xaxis.type': "log"}]),
                        ]),
            x=0.4,
            xanchor="left",
            y=1.2,
            yanchor="top"
        ),
        
        # Y scale (lin/log)
        dict(
            buttons=list([
                 dict(label="linear", 
                      method="relayout", 
                      args=[{'yaxis.type': "linear"}]),
                 dict(label="log",  
                      method="relayout", 
                      args=[{'yaxis.type': "log"}]),
                        ]),
            x=0.6,
            xanchor="left",
            y=1.2,
            yanchor="top"
        ),
    ]
)


fig.show()

Update
This test was done in JupyterLab 2.1.5 environment. In Dash everything works fine. But the issue still remains since I would like to use Plotly as a graphic library in my notebooks.