Axis titles overlapping axis tick labels

Hello

I am having problems with the axis titles being far too close or overlapping the text of the labels (tick text) on each axis.

Example: https://plot.ly/~cbailiss/5/incidence-by-age-range-and-gender/

The two axis titles should be further away from the numbers/categories on each axis. How can this be accomplished?

If the font size of the axis tick labels is increased, both the positions of the axis titles and the positions of the plot (i.e. where the x and y axes are drawn) do not change to adapt to the increased space occupied by the axis tick labels. Ever more of the labels overlaps with the title. Eventually, the labels themselves do not fit into the plot. https://plot.ly/~cbailiss/7/incidence-by-age-range-and-gender/

It seems the rendering/layout algorithm doesn’t pay attention to the width of the labels, which seems like a significant bug. Note, in the above examples, I am specifying a tickformat. Is this the cause of the bug?

For reference, the two plots above were produced from R, with the following code:

plot_ly(AgeGenderIncidence3, x = ~AgeRange2, y = ~F, type = 'bar', name = 'F', marker = list(color = 'rgb(255,91,188)')) %>%
  add_trace(y = ~M, name = 'M', marker = list(color = 'rgb(91,217,255)')) %>%
  layout(title="<b>Incidence By Age Range and Gender</b>", 
         titlefont=list(family="Arial", size=18, color="#2E008B"),
         xaxis = list(title = '<b>Age Range</b>', 
                      titlefont=list(family="Arial", size=16, color="#2E008B"),
                      tickfont=list(family="Arial", size=11, color="#343434")), 
         yaxis = list(title = '<b>Incidence</b>', tickformat=',.0', hoverformat=',.0',
                      titlefont=list(family="Arial", size=16, color="#2E008B"),
                      tickfont=list(family="Arial", size=14, color="#343434")), 
         barmode = 'group')

In the second example above, the size 14 was changed to size 20.

An example (produced with a different library) that is more what I am looking for is: https://1drv.ms/i/s!ApqRkiJX6gQSg5odXumwaUNXuSl23g

Thanks

Chris

[hy9be]

@cbailiss Ignore me if this sounds like nonsense, but I think the point of an open source project is to leverage and contribute. Github.com is not a site for customer service. Why not just sit down with your team and try if it is possible to fix the issue here. My team is also using Plotly for our project but we consider it as also our responsibility to contribute back to this project. Just FYI.

[nicolaskruchten]

I’m happy to report that this is now fixed, with the addition of the *axis.automargin attribute. When set to true it will grow the plot margins so as to make room for both the tick labels and axis title 😃

See #2243