# Y axis name rotation
**URL:** https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-name-rotation/513
**Category:** plotly.js
**Created:** [February 15, 2016, 11:16am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-name-rotation/513 "2016-02-15T11:16:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Narghast](https://community.plotly.com/u/Narghast)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2016, 11:16am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-name-rotation/513/1 "2016-02-15T11:16:27Z")
Hello guys,
I have a small problem. I need to know if exists a way to rotate the name of the y axis of 90 degrees in plotly js.
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@etienne](https://community.plotly.com/u/etienne)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-name-rotation/513/2 "2016-02-15T14:00:54Z")
Unforunately, there is no way to rotate axis titles at the moment.
One workaround will be to remove the native axis titles and use annotations instead to label your axes.
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### Author:  [@Narghast](https://community.plotly.com/u/Narghast)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-name-rotation/513/3 "2016-02-15T15:25:10Z")
i can’t figure how to put a annotation on axis. There are a lot of examples for data value but for the axis how it’s work?
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@etienne](https://community.plotly.com/u/etienne)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-name-rotation/513/4 "2016-02-15T15:47:02Z")
You’re right we don’t have any example of paper-referenced annotations on [https://plot.ly/javascript/text-and-annotations/](https://plot.ly/javascript/text-and-annotations/). Thanks for the headsup!
Here’s an example that should help get started: [http://codepen.io/etpinard/pen/zrbwRx](http://codepen.io/etpinard/pen/zrbwRx)
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### Author:  [@Narghast](https://community.plotly.com/u/Narghast)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-name-rotation/513/5 "2016-02-16T10:25:09Z")
I have changed the plugin. If someone is interested i have done this changes
`else if(axletter==='y'){ ya = cont; xa = (ya.anchor==='free') ? {_offset:gs.l+(ya.position||0)*gs.w, _length:0} : Plotly.Axes.getFromId(gd, ya.anchor); y = ya._offset+ya._length/2 + 10; //added +10 for shift the label downside x = xa._offset + ((ya.side==='right') ? xa._length + 10 + fontSize*(offsetBase + (ya.showticklabels ? 1 : 0.5)) : -10 - fontSize*(offsetBase + (ya.showticklabels ? 0.5 : 0))); options = {x: x, y: y, 'text-anchor': 'middle'}; transform = {rotate: '0', offset: 0}; // CHANGE HERE rotate changed from -90 to 0 if(!avoid.side) { avoid.side = 'left'; } }`
I have changed the propriety transform rotate to 0 and added a +10 offset of the label.
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### Author:  [@gourneau](https://community.plotly.com/u/gourneau)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-name-rotation/513/6 "2016-07-27T20:14:37Z")
For anyone trying to rotate your annotations just use use [textangle](https://plot.ly/javascript/reference/#layout-annotations-textangle)
Here is an example:
https://codepen.io/gourneau/embed/preview/JKkvoG?height=300&slug-hash=JKkvoG&default-tabs=js,result&host=https://codepen.io&embed-version=2
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### Author:  [@mattz](https://community.plotly.com/u/mattz)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-name-rotation/513/7 "2017-04-20T15:59:45Z")
I managed to rotate and move y-axes titles by adding this to my css:
```
.infolayer [class^='y'][class$='title'] {
transform: rotate(0deg) translate(30px, 135px);
}
```
hope this helps 🙂