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Description
If X axis type is category, and categoryarray contains (string type) numbers, then shapes are horizontally misplaced, as x0 and x1 values in the shape are not considered as items, but as indices of the categoryarray.
Eg.
This one works perfectly:
<div id="tester"></div>
<script>
var layout = {
"xaxis": {
"type": "category",
"categoryarray": [
"red", "green", "blue", "purple", "cyan", "yellow", "magenta"
],
},
"shapes": [
{
"type": "rect",
"xref": "x",
"yref": "y",
"x0": "purple",
"x1": "yellow",
"y0": 10,
"y1": 20,
"fillcolor": "rgba(45,180,135,0.3)",
}
]
};
var data = [
{
"x": [ "red", "blue", "cyan", "magenta" ],
"y": [ 10, 20, 30, 40],
},
];
TESTER = document.getElementById('tester');
Plotly.newPlot( TESTER, data, layout );
</script>
But if I replace the color names to numbers:
// in "categoryarray":
"10", "20", "30", "40", "50", "60", "70"
...
// in "shapes" this won't work:
"x0": "40",
"x1": "60",
...
// in data:
"x": [ "10", "30", "50", "70" ],
It will work only if I replace the category values to their indices in the shapes:
"x0": 3,
"x1": 5,
Note: if this is not intended to be a bug, but an undocumented feature, please document it, so I can rely on it later. 😃