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PlotInteractivity

is an option for graphics functions that specifies whether to allow automatic interactivity and highlighting for plots and graphics.

Details

  • PlotInteractivity can be used to control whether plots automatically include tooltips, callouts and other interactive elements.
  • Possible settings for PlotInteractivity include:
  • $PlotInteractivitysystemwide setting
    Automaticinclude interactive elements up to threshholds
    Trueinclude user-specified interactive elements
    Falsedo not include interactive elements
    Allinclude all interactive elements
    <|"User"user,"System"sys|>specify for user and system elements
  • PlotInteractivity generally affects automatic settings from plot options such as LabelingFunction and PlotHighlighting.
  • Setting PlotInteractivityFalse in Plot, ListPlot, BarChart, etc... will prevent automatic interactions, but does not affect those specified explicitly through options or wrappers.
  • With the default setting PlotInteractivityAutomatic, interactive elements are generally enabled when the complexity of the plot is lower and disabled when it is more complicated.
  • Using Show[…,PlotInteractivityFalse] will disable interactions regardless of how they were created.
  • PlotInteractivity does not affect the ability to interactively resize graphics or rotate 3D scenes.

Examples

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Basic Examples  (4)

Disable the default automatic tooltips and edge highlighting in a chart:

Disable the default automatic callouts in a plot:

Disable automatic interactive features but not those specified in the input:

Use Show to disable interactivity on graphics:

Scope  (4)

Plot highlighting is on by default:

Disable the default highlighting from the plot:

Disable the default highlighting afterward using Show:

Show is unable to add interactivity to originally static plots:

Wolfram Research (2025), PlotInteractivity, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PlotInteractivity.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2025), PlotInteractivity, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PlotInteractivity.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2025. "PlotInteractivity." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PlotInteractivity.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2025). PlotInteractivity. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PlotInteractivity.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_plotinteractivity, author="Wolfram Research", title="{PlotInteractivity}", year="2025", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PlotInteractivity.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-February-2026]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_plotinteractivity, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={PlotInteractivity}, year={2025}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PlotInteractivity.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-February-2026]}