# Y-axis text padding

**URL:** https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-text-padding/24501
**Category:** plotly.js
**Created:** [June 13, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-text-padding/24501 "2019-06-13T03:57:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![pgindia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4da419/32.png) [@pgindia](https://community.plotly.com/u/pgindia)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-text-padding/24501/1 "2019-06-13T03:57:04Z")

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Is there a way to increase the gap between the Y-axis label and Y-axis.

 ![12](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/plot/original/2X/7/7464bd82c914908549fc77948ce7cde5a9a610bb.png)

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### Author: ![etienne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/etienne/32/17_2.png) [@etienne](https://community.plotly.com/u/etienne)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/y-axis-text-padding/24501/2 "2019-06-13T16:14:22Z")

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Not at the moment, unfortunately.

One workaround is to set `yaxis.ticklen` to say 5 together with `yaxis.tickcolor: 'rgba(0,0,0,0)'`