New legend_groupclick option to mix toggle item and group
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Since Nov 26, 2025.
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Description
For as long as I remember, placing plot legends into legendgroup caused clicking on any single legend in a group (or its title) to hide/show as a group.
Then with 5.3 it became possible to toggle a single item even when in a legendgroup - as explained and illustrated in https://plotly.com/python/legend/#group-click-toggle-behavior
fig.update_layout(legend=dict(groupclick="toggleitem"))
Now, I would love it if Plotly could offer the following "mixed" behaviour:
- when clicking on a sub-item → toggle that item
- when clicking on the group title → toggle the whole group
That would bring the best of both worlds, in my view…
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