Add button to layout.updatemenus with my own custom function

[StasSpawn]

Can I add button as on screenshot, but with my js function? For example I want to add alert or just console.log()

[alexcjohnson]

For security purposes we don't allow any JS inside the figure spec, since figures don't always come from trusted sources. You could hack something to achieve your purpose by creating a restyle or relayout call that does nothing, ie set a nonexistent attribute, then listen for that event with that attribute.

We could advance that concept into a real feature by allowing you to just emit an event of your choosing, but do nothing else to the graph. For example, we could make it so this button:

{ args: ['party', 'like it\'s 1999'], label: 'Party Time!', method: 'event' }

would emit a plotly_party event with data "like it's 1999" when clicked. Then you could attach whatever handler you want:

gd.on('plotly_party', e => { console.log(e) })

This feature is probably pretty straightforward to implement, if you'd like to make a PR. It's not likely to be worked on by Plotly staff in the near future but we'd happily help review and merge a PR 😄

[wayne-christopher-ansys-com]

You could hack something to achieve your purpose

@alexcjohnson Do you have an example of how to do this?

[alexcjohnson]

I was thinking I'd have to write an example but then I stumbled on this codepen (from 2017!) that does exactly what I was imagining. 🙇 @ajoposor

[gvwilson]

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