Hover Label Flicker when it contains a link

[sim-ware]

Hi Plotly Community!

I’m having a couple of issues using the Python API for Plotly. Basically I have a Bar Chart, and some information I want to present about it in Hover Labels. However, when one of these pieces of information is presented as a hyperlink, the label itself starts to flicker when moused over. I’ve attached a gif for reference. Do you, the community, have any suggestions?

[cldougl]

Hi there,
We currently don't recommend or support adding hyperlinks to hovertext. You can follow this issue: plotly/plotly.js#998 in our core graphing library plotly.js for updates on the feature. Thanks!

[sim-ware]

Hi cldougl,
Thanks for your quick help! Will keep an eye peeled for updates on the feature, in the future. In the meantime we'll think about working round this in the short-term. Thanks again Plotly!

[newuser357]

Has there been an update to the solution?

[pkstacey]

There's a similar attempt here: https://chart-studio.plotly.com/~chris/2540/hover-over-the-points-to-see-the-link/#/code

I'm trying something similar to you, but neither mailto nor javascript protocols seem to be supported within the 'text' property of a dash/plotly tooltip. Any luck?