How to rotate "title" text in the axis

[jcea]

I have a dash application showing temperature. The “y axis” show degrees. I want the numbers to be shown normal, but the title for the axis is just “ºC” and I would love to see it horizontally instead of reading it vertically.

For longer titles this is a non issue because horizontal orientation would overlap the graph, very ugly, but for “ºC” horizontal is just fine and far prettier and easy to the eye.

Thanks!.

[chriddyp]

It’s not possible to change the rotation of the axis title. However, for units, you should try out layout.yaxis.ticksuffix combined with layout.yaxis.showtickprefix = 'first'https://plot.ly/python/reference/#layout-yaxis-ticksuffix

[jcea]

@chriddyp

showtick

Cool trick, @chriddyp. In my case, I use “showticksuffix=‘last’”.

Thanks.

[prokie]

Is this still the case? Is it still impossible to rotate the axis title?