Is selectively formatting tick labels possible? How?

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Hi,

Using the basic horizontal bar chart from the plotly site as an example (code below), is it possible to selectively (or individually) format the tick labels? For instance, can I make the text for “giraffes” a larger font, different color, and/or in bold text while leaving the other labels unchanged? If so, how?

I didn’t see any guidance in the axes documentation. I also scanned the API reference, but I may have missed something.

I’m still new to Plotly, so any guidance is appreciated.

import plotly.graph_objects as go

fig = go.Figure(go.Bar(
x=[20, 14, 23],
y=[‘giraffes’, ‘orangutans’, ‘monkeys’],
orientation=‘h’))

fig.show()

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Hi @9eqUoa2vHj, the font type, color and size have to be the same for all tick labels. Some labels can be bold since you can change this directly when defining y:

fig = go.Figure(go.Bar(
    x=[20, 14, 23],
    y=[‘<b>giraffes</b>’, ‘orangutans’, ‘monkeys’],
   orientation=‘h’))

If you need more customization, you can add annotations instead of ticklabels, please see the tutorial on annotations for more details.

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Hi Emmanuelle,

Got it, thank you very much for your response.