Shared X-axis spike remove tick marks from other subplots in Plotly?

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When I attempt to create a shared hover spike across multiple subplots, I immediately lose the xticks on those subplots.

Is there any way I can fix this? I want to see the xtick labels on ALL of my subplots.

Reproducible Code:

from plotly.subplots import make_subplots
import plotly.graph_objects as go

fig = make_subplots(rows=3, cols=1,
                    shared_xaxes=True,
                    vertical_spacing=0.10)

fig.add_trace(go.Scatter(x=[0, 1, 2], y=[10, 11, 12]),
              row=3, col=1)

fig.add_trace(go.Scatter(x=[2, 3, 4], y=[100, 110, 120]),
              row=2, col=1)

fig.add_trace(go.Scatter(x=[3, 4, 5], y=[1000, 1100, 1200]),
              row=1, col=1)

fig.update_layout(height=600, width=600,
                  title_text="Stacked Subplots with Shared X-Axes")

fig.update_layout(
    xaxis_showticklabels=True,
    xaxis2_showticklabels=True,
    xaxis3_showticklabels=True,
)

# Uncomment these lines to draw the shared hover spike
# fig.update_traces(xaxis='x')
# fig.update_xaxes(spikemode='across+marker')

fig.show()

Before and After Chart

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HI @AlanPLOTLY welcome to the forums.

I actually think, that this is not possible, at least I did not find a way to do so. You can set where the ticks are shown by changing to fig.update_traces(xaxis='x'3) however

4

Hi @AIMPED,

The functionality is obviously there, are you sure there isn’t some flag I can set to “re-enable” visibility on the hidden tick marks?

5

Hey @AlanPLOTLY.

No, I’m not 100% sure :fearful:.

To be sure I’d have to dig deeper but I never have come across the flag you mention.