Hi there, I have a quick and simple question which I couldn’t figure out myself. Is there a way to modify how the legend displays the markers? At the moment I am using scattergl with thousands of small points per trace…so I had to set the marker size small, which looks nice within the scatter plo…

[image] silly_lily: Is there a way to modify how the legend displays the markers? Not at the moment unfortunately.

Hello, I’m picking up that topic again, as one thing crossed my mind so I was playing around but no success yet. Note that I am using the scattergl plot type. I am wondering if there is a way to use the legendgroup behavior to accomplish different marker styles in my legend? I tried creating my …

[image] silly_lily: I tried creating my regular traces as scattergl plus additional “fake traces” in “box” type, That’s another gl2d limitation. You can’t currently mixed gl2d traces with regular cartesian traces (e.g. box trace). So yeah, that probably messed up the axes.

By the way @silly_lily , you might want to subscribe to https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/pull/1869 for the latest info on our gl2d rewrite. We’re hoping to bring scattergl and gl2d axes to par with cartesian at some point this fall.

Hi, was there any improvements in that direction? Thanks

Still no way to set a legend marker size in Plotly… imagine a scatter plot with 5000 points… either giant markers in the plot, or microscopic legend dots… Is there still no simple solution for this? I simple legend(markersize = x) argument sounds so simple to add. p.s. i’m using plotly in R

Hi ! Have you found something ? I have the same issue in Python. Best

I have found a very ugly work around library(plotly) library(shiny) library(htmlwidgets) library(colourpicker) ui <- fluidPage( fluidRow( column(8, plotlyOutput("plot1") ), column(2, colourpicker::colourInput(inputId = 'markercolor', label = 'X', …

Thank you! I’ll try this way.

any update ? this lack of capability is keeping our team from switching from bokeh to plotly :frowning:

Modify marker size in legend?

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ben.lindsay August 18, 2020, 2:16pm 12

I’ve run into this issue many times too. A fix would be fantastic.

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