Vertical Line On Hover

Dash Python
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I have an application with many lines plotted against one another, and rather than the typical number comparison I’d rather use a vertical rule to visually compare many lines, something like…

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Is there a straightforward way to do this in Dash? I’ve disable the hover text successfully, looking to add the line.

Thanks in advance.

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There is a feature in the plotly mode bar called “spike lines” which almost does what you describe:

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Does that work for you? You can set this as the default interaction mode with

figure = {
    'data': [...],
    'layout': {
        'hovermode': 'closest',
        'xaxis': {'showspikes': True}
    }
}

The style of the spikes is customizable as well: https://plot.ly/python/reference/#layout-xaxis-showspikes

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Thanks! Will use that for now, but an hline / vline type hover would be handy for a few ways of looking at data.

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Yeah, I agree that this could be helpful. I’ve created an issue in plotly.js here: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/1959. Thanks for reporting!

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The plotly.js team just informed me about spikemode: across: https://plot.ly/python/reference/#layout-xaxis-spikemode. Seems like this would work in this case.

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Any way to synchronize this across multiple plots in a subplot?

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