diff --git a/draftlogs/6002_fix.md b/draftlogs/6002_fix.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..21b271bb8bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/draftlogs/6002_fix.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ - Fix horizontal alignment of colorbar in editable mode when `xanchor` is set to "center" [[#6002](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/pull/6002)]
diff --git a/src/components/colorbar/draw.js b/src/components/colorbar/draw.js
index d725b20b9b2..4bf40d74089 100644
--- a/src/components/colorbar/draw.js
+++ b/src/components/colorbar/draw.js
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ function drawColorBar(g, opts, gd) {
     // then fix at the end (since we don't know the width yet)
     var xLeft = Math.round(opts.x * gs.w + opts.xpad);
     // for dragging... this is getting a little muddled...
-    var xLeftFrac = opts.x - thickFrac * ({middle: 0.5, right: 1}[opts.xanchor] || 0);
+    var xLeftFrac = opts.x - thickFrac * ({center: 0.5, right: 1}[opts.xanchor] || 0);
 
     // y positioning we can do correctly from the start
     var yBottomFrac = opts.y + lenFrac * (({top: -0.5, bottom: 0.5}[opts.yanchor] || 0) - 0.5);