Customizing the order of legends in plotly

Question

I am trying to customize the order of legends while plotting stacked bar plots in plotly,python.

data = [
        go.Bar(
            y=df['sid'],  # assign x as the dataframe column 'x'
            x=df['A'],
            orientation='h',
            name='A'
        ),
        go.Bar(
            y=df['sid'],
            x=df['B'],
            orientation='h',
            name='B'
        ),

    ]

    layout = go.Layout(
        barmode='stack',
        title=f'{measurement}',
        xaxis=dict(
            title='Count',
            dtick=0),
        yaxis=dict(
            tickfont=dict(
                size=10,
            ),
            dtick=1)
    )

    fig = go.Figure(data=data, layout=layout)
    plot(fig, filename='plot.html')

The order of the legend appears in the reverse order(i.e from bottom to top). I want to change the order from top to bottom of the corresponding items in data.

I saw the option suggested here for java. Not sure how to implement in python.

Could someone suggest how the order can be reversed?

EDIT: In the image that is generated the order of legend is

B
A

Desired order:

A
B

Hypomania

Could you please provide an image representing the result you got and the goal you want to achieve? – Bog

@Bog Please check the edit – Hypomania

Answer 1

You can use traceorder key for legend:

Determines the order at which the legend items are displayed. If "normal", the items are displayed top-to-bottom in the same order as the input data. If "reversed", the items are displayed in the opposite order as "normal". If "grouped", the items are displayed in groups (when a trace legendgroup is provided). if "grouped+reversed", the items are displayed in the opposite order as "grouped".

In your case, you should modify your layout definition:

layout = go.Layout(
    barmode='stack',
    title=f'{measurement}',
    xaxis=dict(
        title='Count',
        dtick=0),
    yaxis=dict(
        tickfont=dict(
            size=10,
        ),
        dtick=1),
   legend={'traceorder':'normal'})
)

---

without traceorder specification

import plotly.graph_objs as go
from plotly.offline import init_notebook_mode, iplot
init_notebook_mode(connected=True)

trace1 = go.Bar(x=['A', 'B', 'C'],
                y=[20, 14, 23],
                name='first')
trace2 = go.Bar(x=['A', 'B', 'C'],
                y=[12, 18, 29],
                name='second')

data = [trace1, trace2]
layout = go.Layout(barmode='stack',)

fig = go.Figure(data=data, layout=layout)
iplot(fig, filename='stacked-bar')

with traceorder specification

import plotly.graph_objs as go
from plotly.offline import init_notebook_mode, iplot
init_notebook_mode(connected=True)

trace1 = go.Bar(x=['A', 'B', 'C'],
                y=[20, 14, 23],
                name='first')
trace2 = go.Bar(x=['A', 'B', 'C'],
                y=[12, 18, 29],
                name='second')

data = [trace1, trace2]
layout = go.Layout(barmode='stack',
                   legend={'traceorder':'normal'})

fig = go.Figure(data=data, layout=layout)
iplot(fig, filename='stacked-bar')

Bog

FYI go.Legend has been deprecated in favor of go.layout.Legend – Alleneallentown

Answer 2

You can only add this line to reverse the current order of legend labels:

fig.update_layout(legend_traceorder="reversed")

Butterfish

Answer 3

In case anyone found this answer looking for a solution using plotly in R, it is legend = list(traceorder="normal"), in the layout() block.

Leyla