Responsive / Fluid Layouts in JavaScript

How to create figures with responsive/fluid layouts in JavaScript.

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Plotly is a free and open-source graphing library for JavaScript. We recommend you read our Getting Started guide for the latest installation or upgrade instructions, then move on to our Plotly Fundamentals tutorials or dive straight in to some Basic Charts tutorials.

Responsive Plots

If you set the responsive attribute equal to true (using the config object), then your figures will be automatically resized when the browser window size changes. This is an especially useful feature for charts which are going to viewed on mobile devices!

var trace1 = {
  type: 'bar',
  x: [1, 2, 3, 4],
  y: [5, 10, 2, 8],
  marker: {
      color: '#C8A2C8',
      line: {
          width: 2.5
      }
  }
};

var data = [ trace1 ];

var layout = { 
  title: 'Responsive to window\'s size!',
  font: {size: 18}
};

var config = {responsive: true}

Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout, config );