I’m developing an app in Dash and Plotly which uses plotly.express.scatter_3d. The marker size is mapped to some data values, but I want the size of the text to remain unlinked to marker size. Currently, the text size is very tiny for some values. I’ve tried various approaches. e.g. fig.update_lay…

My guess world be, have you are returning a figure somewhere without using your custom layout. I have to confess, that I did not look thru all your code.

Yeah, it’s not exactly a MRE. But the answer is no, I think. I only return the figure using that function. It’s just that it only seems to have an effect the first time the page loads. After that, it reverts to plotly defaults. I think it’s actually a bug.

[image] cbjrobertson: fig.update_layout(template="plotly", plot_bgcolor='rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)', paper_bgcolor='rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)', ) Try changing your text size after the above lines. I think the templates might include reference…

Thanks for the suggestion! I’ve actually already tried that after posting. Doesn’t make a difference.

I can but am very busy now. I’ll post again once I get a chance!

Hi, I have the same behaviour. I am using a graph existing out of two figures. One is a scatter3d for text only and the second is a mesh3d. The first figure is like expected. But when I manipulate the text content and redraw the figure, the manipulated text is very small. Text which was not cha…

Hey @gerhard , welcome to the forums! It usually helps a lot if you provide a small code snippet which we can copy&paste and run it on our side to reproduce the issue you are facing. :slight_smile:

Plotly express scatter_3d keeps changing text size

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Do you think you could create a MRE for that?

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Plotly express scatter_3d keeps changing text size

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