Plotly: preventing bars on bar chart from changing color based on background color

Question

I have a set of sales data in a Pandas dataframe df that looks similar to the following:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({'date':['2021-01-04', '2021-01-05', '2021-01-06', '2021-01-07', '2021-01-08', '2021-01-11', '2021-01-12', '2021-01-13', '2021-01-14', '2021-01-15'],
                  'sales':[1500, 2000, 1300, 2700, 1800, 4500, 2600, 2750, 8000, 1300]})

    date          sales
0   2021-01-04    1500
1   2021-01-05    2000
2   2021-01-06    1300
3   2021-01-07    2700
4   2021-01-08    1800
5   2021-01-11    4500
6   2021-01-12    2600
7   2021-01-13    2750
8   2021-01-14    8000
9   2021-01-15    1300

I then plot this data, as follows:

import plotly.express as px

fig = px.bar(df, x='date', y='sales')

fig.add_hrect(y0=0, y1=2200, line_width=0, fillcolor="red", opacity=0.25)
fig.add_hrect(y0=2200, y1=5000, line_width=0, fillcolor="yellow", opacity=0.25)
fig.add_hrect(y0=5000, y1=10000, line_width=0, fillcolor="green", opacity=0.25)

fig.show()

As you can see, the blue vertical bars turn a purple color when combined with the red background color.

One workaround might be to paint the red, green, and yellow background colors first, then to overlay the blue bars. This way, we're not 'mixing' red and blue, thereby making purple.

Is this possible? Is there another, better solution?

Thanks!

mosc9575 mosc9575 · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-11T20:35:14

There is the option to add layer='below' to the add_hrect.

fig = px.bar(df, x='date', y='sales')

fig.add_hrect(y0=0, y1=2200, line_width=0, fillcolor="red", opacity=0.25, layer='below')
fig.add_hrect(y0=2200, y1=5000, line_width=0, fillcolor="yellow", opacity=0.25, layer='below')
fig.add_hrect(y0=5000, y1=10000, line_width=0, fillcolor="green", opacity=0.25, layer='below')

Plotly: preventing bars on bar chart from changing color based on background color

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