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trace.on_click registers a Python callback for clicks on points in a Plotly trace. It works when the trace is in a displayed FigureWidget inside an ipywidget context.

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trace.on_click(callback, append=False)

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  • plotly.graph_objects.FigureWidget
  • plotly.callbacks.Points
  • plotly.callbacks.InputDeviceState
  • plotly.graph_objects.Scatter
  • plotly.graph_objects.Figure

Source: Click events in Python. Checked 2026-11-03.