Can't draw spike line across subplots with make_subplots in 4.0.0

After upgrading to plotly 4.0.0, I can’t see how to create a spike line across shared axes created with make_subplots.

Previously I was using code like this:

from plotly.tools import make_subplots
from plotly.io import write_html

fig = make_subplots(rows=4, cols=1, shared_xaxes=True)
x_vals = list(range(10))
y_vals = [x**2 for x in x_vals]
fig.add_scatter(x=x_vals, y=y_vals, row=1, col=1)
fig.add_scatter(x=x_vals, y=y_vals, row=2, col=1)
fig.add_scatter(x=x_vals, y=y_vals, row=3, col=1)
fig.add_scatter(x=x_vals, y=y_vals, row=4, col=1)

fig.update_xaxes(spikemode='across+marker')

write_html(fig, 'out.html', auto_open=True)

The resulting figure showed spike lines across axes because only one x axis was created:

But in 4.0, multiple x axes are created so the spike line no longer draws across all subplots:

Is there any way around this? Thanks!

[nicolaskruchten]

As a simple workaround, you can just do fig.update_traces(xaxis="x1") which rebinds all your traces to the x-axis you want the spikelines to join up with.

[rysktky]

Thanks it works! Just needed to set it to the xaxis which is at the bottom. Then the ticklabels remain visible. fig.update_traces(xaxis="x4")