How to put the legend above/ below the chart and change the font sizes? I have a chart with 12 long legend names. Putting the legend on the right side will compromise the chart.
Also I need the legend names be horizontal. Not all names on the vertical line it will be too long.
You can set the orientation of the legend by via orientation attribute in the legend attribute in the layout settings:
layout = plotly.graph_objs.Layout(
legend=dict(orientation="h")
)
e.g.
import plotly
layout = dict()
trace1 = plotly.graph_objs.Bar(
x=['giraffes', 'orangutans', 'monkeys'],
y=[20, 14, 23],
name="Stackoverflow's personal zoo without any real name but some really long text"
)
trace2 = plotly.graph_objs.Bar(
x=['giraffes', 'orangutans', 'monkeys'],
y=[12, 18, 29],
name="Another zoo which doesn't have a name but but lots of superfluous characters"
)
trace3 = plotly.graph_objs.Bar(
x=['giraffes', 'orangutans', 'monkeys'],
y=[15, 12, 32],
name="Yet another zoo with plenty of redundant information"
)
data = [trace1, trace2, trace3]
layout = plotly.graph_objs.Layout(
barmode='group',
legend=dict(orientation="h")
)
fig = dict(data=data, layout=layout)
plotly.plotly.sign_in('user', 'token')
plot_url = plotly.plotly.plot(fig)
Default legend
Horizontal legend
