# Reversed x axis
**URL:** https://community.plotly.com/t/reversed-x-axis/623
**Category:** plotly.js
**Created:** [March 6, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/reversed-x-axis/623 "2016-03-06T23:43:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@JonLikesToast](https://community.plotly.com/u/JonLikesToast)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/reversed-x-axis/623/1 "2016-03-06T23:43:11Z")
I’m plotting some data and the x axis keeps reversing.
The bigger values of the x axis are on the left and the smaller values are on the right hand side
I’m just plotting 4 scatter graphs with error bars
x,y,error\_y,error\_x
Fourmond1978.tot
6.70000E-08,170.0,20.0,0.0
Fourmond1978A001.tot
7.20000E-08,1340.0,40.0,0.0
Jarczyk1961.tot
2.53000E-08,0.048,0.015,0.0
Mughabghab2006.tot
2.53000E-08,0.0385,0.003,0.0
is there any way of forcing the axis to stay with the smallest numbers on the left and the largest on the right?
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### Author:  [@etienne](https://community.plotly.com/u/etienne)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/reversed-x-axis/623/2 "2016-03-07T13:55:14Z")
This looks strange.
Could you provide a reproducible code snippet?
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### Author:  [@JonLikesToast](https://community.plotly.com/u/JonLikesToast)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/reversed-x-axis/623/3 "2016-03-07T14:25:30Z")
Thanks for the response.
The graph reads CSV values from a server and passes the values to a function to plot.
I’m still a beginner with JS however the x,y,error\_x ,error\_y and legend text are passed to a function for plotting.
this is the function
function makeScatterPlotly( x, y ,dy,dx,legend ){
var plotDiv = document.getElementById(“plot”);
var traces2 = [{
x: x,
y: y,
mode: ‘markers’,
error\_y: {
type: ‘data’,
array: dy,
visible: true
},
error\_x: {
type: ‘data’,
array: dx,
visible: true
},
type: ‘scatter’,
name: legend,
marker: {
size: 8
},
}];
var layout = {
showlegend: true,
autosize: true,
width: w,
height: h/1.5,
margin: {
t: 20
},
xaxis: {
type: log\_x,
title: xaxis\_title,
borderwidth: ‘50’,
exponentformat: ‘e’,
showline: true,
rangemode: ‘tozero’,
linecolor: ‘#969696’,
linewidth: 4,
autorange: true,
mirror: true,
zeroline: false
},
yaxis: {
type: log\_y,
title: ‘Cross section (barns)’,
exponentformat: ‘e’,
showexponent: ‘All’,
borderwidth: ‘50’,
showline: true,
rangemode: ‘nonnegative’,
linecolor: ‘#969696’,
linewidth: 4,
autorange: true,
mirror: true,
zeroline: false
}
};
```
Plotly.plot('myDiv', traces2,layout,{displayModeBar: true},{showLink: false});
};
```
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### Author:  [@etienne](https://community.plotly.com/u/etienne)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/reversed-x-axis/623/4 "2016-03-07T14:57:27Z")
I suspect that something is wrong with how you specified the `xaxis` type. What’s the value of `log_x` ?
Here’s a working example: http ://codepen.io/etpinard/pen/vGLJRo
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### Author:  [@JonLikesToast](https://community.plotly.com/u/JonLikesToast)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/reversed-x-axis/623/6 "2016-03-07T20:59:21Z")
I think it might have been the rangemode: ‘tozero’, setting which was struggling, I guess this makes sense with a log scale plot. Many thanks for the help again
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### Author:  [@JonLikesToast](https://community.plotly.com/u/JonLikesToast)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/reversed-x-axis/623/7 "2016-03-07T20:59:53Z")
the log\_x and log\_y variables are set to ‘log’