How to make Dropdown Menus in Plotly?

Last Updated : 22 Sep, 2020

A Plotly is a Python library that is used to design graphs, especially interactive graphs. It can plot various graphs and charts like histogram, barplot, boxplot, spreadplot, and many more. It is mainly used in data analysis as well as financial analysis. plotly is an interactive visualization library.

Creating Dropdown Menus

A drop-down menu is a part of the menu-button which is displayed on a screen all the time. Every menu button is associated with a Menu widget that can display the choices for that menu button when clicked on it. In plotly, there are 4 possible methods to modify the charts by using updatemenu method.

restyle: modify data or data attributes
relayout: modify layout attributes
update: modify data and layout attributes
animate: start or pause an animation

Example 1: Restyle Dropdown

The data and data attributes of the graph can be modified.

Python3

import plotly.graph_objects as px import numpy as np   # creating random data through randomint # function of numpy.random np.random.seed(42)  random_x = np.random.randint(1, 101, 100) random_y = np.random.randint(1, 101, 100)  plot = px.Figure(data=[px.Scatter(     x=random_x,     y=random_y,     mode='markers',) ])  # Add dropdown plot.update_layout(     updatemenus=[         dict(             buttons=list([                 dict(                     args=["type", "scatter"],                     label="Scatter Plot",                     method="restyle"                 ),                 dict(                     args=["type", "bar"],                     label="Bar Chart",                     method="restyle"                 )             ]),             direction="down",         ),     ] )  plot.show()

Output:

Example 2: