Plotly.js: Remove `Aa` in legends with text?

[chriddyp]

I've worked on a few client projects with Dash where the client asked that the Aa in the legend be removed. To do so, I had to create a set of new traces on top of the existing traces without the text key, and then remove the legend item from the original traces, i.e.:

[
    {x: [1, 2, 3], y: [3, 1, 2], text: ['a', 'b', 'c'], 'showlegend': false, 'legendgroup': 'trace-1', marker: {color: 'blue'}},
    {x: [1], y: [3], 'showlegend': true, 'legendgroup': 'trace-1', marker: {color: 'blue'}},
]

And in the community, some users don't understand why or how the Aa appears (https://community.plot.ly/t/dash-legend-label-extrange-behavoiur-scatterplot/13255).

• Could we just remove it by default? I feel like the number of folks that want it removed outweighs the number of folks that see the benefit of having it, although I only have anecdotal evidence.
• If not, could we make a new key to remove it?

[alexcjohnson]

I feel like the number of folks that want it removed outweighs the number of folks that see the benefit of having it, although I only have anecdotal evidence.

It's hard to tell, given the selection bias (we'll only ever hear from the people who don't like it).

If not, could we make a new key to remove it?

Definitely. I wonder if we can do something generic like legendstyle: {mode: 'lines+markers'} so you could modify any of the relevant style attributes? Related: #1701 - though I'm not sure if that would quite fit into legendstyle, as the label doesn't exist on the plot itself.

[eunaka]

I solved adding to the global style:

g.pointtext {
display: none;
}

[etpinard]

Now in https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/2967

Now in https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/3735

[pdfabbro]

Why would anybody ever want "Aa" to show up in the legend?? Having it blank or configurable should be the default behaviour.

[z7ye]

is this issue ever fixed please?

[pdfabbro]

Nope.