Plotly: Turn off modebar for the session

Question

I can turn off the modebar in plotly by passing displayModeBar: False as the value of config in fig.show(), like this-

import plotly.express as px

df = px.data.stocks()
fig = px.line(df, x='date', y='GOOG')

fig.show(config={'displayModeBar':False})

But is there a way I could do it just once for the entire session rather than having to pass it with each figure call?

Stas S · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-23T23:49:23.180

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import plotly.io as pio

pio.renderers['jupyterlab'].config['displayModeBar'] = False

edited Jan 23 '22 at 23:49

answered Jan 23 '22 at 16:36

Stas S

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I just tried this. It does not seem to have any effect. – callmeanythingyouwant Jan 27 '22 at 05:30
Do you use Jupyter Lab? There are a few other environments: notebook, kaggle, colab - you can inspect them via `pio.renderers` and modify the line above accordingly. – Stas S Jan 27 '22 at 20:54
Amazing! It works now, I was using jupyter notebook so I changed the key to `notebook`. Thanks! – callmeanythingyouwant Jan 28 '22 at 10:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '21 at 18:52

As of writing this there isn't an official way to set a default config value for the show function of every figure.

What I would recommend as a workaround is to create a function that sets default values and passes them on to the show function of a figure:

import plotly.express as px

df = px.data.stocks()


def show(fig, *args, **kwargs):
    kwargs.get("config", {}).setdefault("displayModeBar", False)
    fig.show(*args, **kwargs)


df = px.data.stocks()
fig = px.line(df, x="date", y="GOOG")
show(fig)

The above sets the default value of config to {"displayModeBar": False}. The default value can simply be overwritten by passing arguments to the custom show function.

Plotly: Turn off modebar for the session

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