How to adjust Plotly legend/colorbar background transparency/colour
Question:
I’m trying to edit the appearance of a map I have made, but if I choose to have the colorbar/legend visible, it sits on a white background:
This white is a bit jarring for the rest of the color scheme. At the moment, I’m just hiding the whole thing with:
fig.update_coloraxes(showscale=False)
But that obviously makes the map harder to understand, so is there a way I can still show the bar either with a darker background or without a background?
Answers:
You can use the attribute bgcolor of colorbar:
color = ... # your color
fig.update_coloraxes(colorbar=dict(bgcolor=color))
I’m trying to edit the appearance of a map I have made, but if I choose to have the colorbar/legend visible, it sits on a white background:
This white is a bit jarring for the rest of the color scheme. At the moment, I’m just hiding the whole thing with:
fig.update_coloraxes(showscale=False)
But that obviously makes the map harder to understand, so is there a way I can still show the bar either with a darker background or without a background?
You can use the attribute bgcolor of colorbar:
color = ... # your color
fig.update_coloraxes(colorbar=dict(bgcolor=color))