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Make auto-margin step dependent on axis label span

See original GitHub issue

Hi there, I have some graphs with particularly long labels/axis string values and I’m wondering if there’s a way to get them to fit without changing the layout.margin option because I’m using dynamic data.

Here’s CodePen showing a longer label being cut off on both a vertically and horizontally-oriented bar chart - http://codepen.io/mnoble01/pen/zqxZQx.

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Created 8 years ago
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etpinardcommented, Mar 1, 2016

There’s no automated way to do that at the moment. Making the auto-margin step dive into the axis labels would be a great addition though.

Renaming this issue accordingly.

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nicolaskruchtencommented, Mar 2, 2018

I’m happy to report that this is now fixed, with the addition of the *axis.automargin attribute (see #2243). When set to true it will grow the plot margins so as to make room for both the tick labels and axis title 😃

Some caveats: this doesn’t interact with the legend’s positioning, so tick labels can still conflict there, and for x-axes at the top, can conflict with the plot title, but it’s a good start! Here’s the mock that shows it in action: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/test/image/baselines/long_axis_labels.png