I'm trying to select the text of a single entry/trace from a plotly plot.
By default, text is not selectable at all from my plot, which I generated like this:
In my R Markdown script, an R code chunk calls the plotly graph object. The Rmd is knitted (knitr) to HTML which I view in a browser.
I could manage to make all the text selectable at once, either by
supplying a text.css when knitting the Rmd containing
<style>
js-plotly-plot .plotly .user-select-none {
user-select: all !important;
}
</style>
or
2. Using this lovely bookmarklet: https://alanhogan.com/code/text-selection-bookmarklet
This is the result (red tape for data security):
When dragging the cursor over the text (usual move to select text) in any line in the legend, all lines down to that line are selected at once. I would like to only have that single line selected so it can be copied easily.
I suspect this has to do with the way the legend is built in a plotly plot but I don't have enough understanding of programming to understand how to alter that.
I read about plotly click events, especially 'plotly_legendclick' and 'plotly_legenddoubleclick' which do act on single line level as they enable/disable the traces in the plot: https://plotly.com/javascript/plotlyjs-events/.
So possibly, some JS code could be written into the R Markdown that tackles here?
I don't understand the interaction process of knitting an R Markdown to html and JS' role (and don't know any JS).
I have run out of ideas and look forward to your suggestions!
(If helpful, I can pseudonymize my data and provide the html file.)
