Add support for clickable hover text or a per pt onclick attribute

Users can put links inside hover labels, but when user try to click the link, the hover label obviously disappears. So perhaps we could add optional “sticky” hover labels, where you click and the hover label is persistent until you click again?

Defining what sticky means will be tricky. It probably doesn’t apply to every situation. Maybe we could add it as a new layout.hovermode e.g. 'hovermode: 'sticky'.

So, maybe instead we could define a linkonclick attribute e.g. linkonclick: ['https://plot.ly/~empet/101', 'https://plot.ly', /* ... one link per data pt */] that way clicking on a data pt would open the link instead of hovering on the data pt -> move mouse over link in hover label -> click on it.

cc @jackparmer

[PaNDanese]

what do you think the right interaction is for allowing a user to select copy paste what is in a hover tag?

@jackparmer I think clicking on the marker itself would be ideal to toggle the stickiness of the hover tag.

• Click on the marker and the hover tag persists and you can then copy/paste hover tag-text and click on hyperlinks in the hover tag
• Click on the marker again and the hover tag “unsticks”.

+1 for utility

[bill10]

looks like this is still open? any updates?