# Plotly express - animated bar chart?

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-express-animated-bar-chart/23604>\
**Category:** Dash Python\
**Created:** [May 18, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-express-animated-bar-chart/23604 "2019-05-18T17:13:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![nadersmn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3be4f8/32.png) [@nadersmn](https://community.plotly.com/u/nadersmn)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-express-animated-bar-chart/23604/1 "2019-05-18T17:13:27Z")

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Is there a way to create an animated bar chart using years as animation\_frame to show case the changes

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**Author:** ![nicolaskruchten](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/nicolaskruchten/32/7018_2.png) [@nicolaskruchten](https://community.plotly.com/u/nicolaskruchten)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-express-animated-bar-chart/23604/2 "2019-05-20T00:35:01Z")

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Yes, but at the moment the bars won’t smoothly move up and down: they’ll jump. We’re working on this 🙂