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altair.Config#

class altair.Config(arc=Undefined, area=Undefined, aria=Undefined, autosize=Undefined, axis=Undefined, axisBand=Undefined, axisBottom=Undefined, axisDiscrete=Undefined, axisLeft=Undefined, axisPoint=Undefined, axisQuantitative=Undefined, axisRight=Undefined, axisTemporal=Undefined, axisTop=Undefined, axisX=Undefined, axisXBand=Undefined, axisXDiscrete=Undefined, axisXPoint=Undefined, axisXQuantitative=Undefined, axisXTemporal=Undefined, axisY=Undefined, axisYBand=Undefined, axisYDiscrete=Undefined, axisYPoint=Undefined, axisYQuantitative=Undefined, axisYTemporal=Undefined, background=Undefined, bar=Undefined, boxplot=Undefined, circle=Undefined, concat=Undefined, countTitle=Undefined, customFormatTypes=Undefined, errorband=Undefined, errorbar=Undefined, facet=Undefined, fieldTitle=Undefined, font=Undefined, geoshape=Undefined, header=Undefined, headerColumn=Undefined, headerFacet=Undefined, headerRow=Undefined, image=Undefined, legend=Undefined, line=Undefined, lineBreak=Undefined, locale=Undefined, mark=Undefined, normalizedNumberFormat=Undefined, normalizedNumberFormatType=Undefined, numberFormat=Undefined, numberFormatType=Undefined, padding=Undefined, params=Undefined, point=Undefined, projection=Undefined, range=Undefined, rect=Undefined, rule=Undefined, scale=Undefined, selection=Undefined, square=Undefined, style=Undefined, text=Undefined, tick=Undefined, timeFormat=Undefined, timeFormatType=Undefined, title=Undefined, tooltipFormat=Undefined, trail=Undefined, view=Undefined, **kwds)#

Config schema wrapper

Parameters:
arcdict, RectConfig

Arc-specific Config

areadict, AreaConfig

Area-Specific Config

ariabool

A boolean flag indicating if ARIA default attributes should be included for marks and guides (SVG output only). If false, the "aria-hidden" attribute will be set for all guides, removing them from the ARIA accessibility tree and Vega-Lite will not generate default descriptions for marks.

Default value: true.

autosizedict, AutosizeType, AutoSizeParams, Literal[‘pad’, ‘none’, ‘fit’, ‘fit-x’, ‘fit-y’]

How the visualization size should be determined. If a string, should be one of "pad", "fit" or "none". Object values can additionally specify parameters for content sizing and automatic resizing.

Default value : pad

axisdict, AxisConfig

Axis configuration, which determines default properties for all x and y axes. For a full list of axis configuration options, please see the corresponding section of the axis documentation.

axisBanddict, AxisConfig

Config for axes with “band” scales.

axisBottomdict, AxisConfig

Config for x-axis along the bottom edge of the chart.

axisDiscretedict, AxisConfig

Config for axes with “point” or “band” scales.

axisLeftdict, AxisConfig

Config for y-axis along the left edge of the chart.

axisPointdict, AxisConfig

Config for axes with “point” scales.

axisQuantitativedict, AxisConfig

Config for quantitative axes.

axisRightdict, AxisConfig

Config for y-axis along the right edge of the chart.

axisTemporaldict, AxisConfig

Config for temporal axes.

axisTopdict, AxisConfig

Config for x-axis along the top edge of the chart.

axisXdict, AxisConfig

X-axis specific config.

axisXBanddict, AxisConfig

Config for x-axes with “band” scales.

axisXDiscretedict, AxisConfig

Config for x-axes with “point” or “band” scales.

axisXPointdict, AxisConfig

Config for x-axes with “point” scales.

axisXQuantitativedict, AxisConfig

Config for x-quantitative axes.

axisXTemporaldict, AxisConfig

Config for x-temporal axes.

axisYdict, AxisConfig

Y-axis specific config.

axisYBanddict, AxisConfig

Config for y-axes with “band” scales.

axisYDiscretedict, AxisConfig

Config for y-axes with “point” or “band” scales.

axisYPointdict, AxisConfig

Config for y-axes with “point” scales.

axisYQuantitativedict, AxisConfig

Config for y-quantitative axes.

axisYTemporaldict, AxisConfig

Config for y-temporal axes.

backgroundstr, dict, Color, ExprRef, HexColor, ColorName, Literal[‘black’, ‘silver’, ‘gray’, ‘white’, ‘maroon’, ‘red’, ‘purple’, ‘fuchsia’, ‘green’, ‘lime’, ‘olive’, ‘yellow’, ‘navy’, ‘blue’, ‘teal’, ‘aqua’, ‘orange’, ‘aliceblue’, ‘antiquewhite’, ‘aquamarine’, ‘azure’, ‘beige’, ‘bisque’, ‘blanchedalmond’, ‘blueviolet’, ‘brown’, ‘burlywood’, ‘cadetblue’, ‘chartreuse’, ‘chocolate’, ‘coral’, ‘cornflowerblue’, ‘cornsilk’, ‘crimson’, ‘cyan’, ‘darkblue’, ‘darkcyan’, ‘darkgoldenrod’, ‘darkgray’, ‘darkgreen’, ‘darkgrey’, ‘darkkhaki’, ‘darkmagenta’, ‘darkolivegreen’, ‘darkorange’, ‘darkorchid’, ‘darkred’, ‘darksalmon’, ‘darkseagreen’, ‘darkslateblue’, ‘darkslategray’, ‘darkslategrey’, ‘darkturquoise’, ‘darkviolet’, ‘deeppink’, ‘deepskyblue’, ‘dimgray’, ‘dimgrey’, ‘dodgerblue’, ‘firebrick’, ‘floralwhite’, ‘forestgreen’, ‘gainsboro’, ‘ghostwhite’, ‘gold’, ‘goldenrod’, ‘greenyellow’, ‘grey’, ‘honeydew’, ‘hotpink’, ‘indianred’, ‘indigo’, ‘ivory’, ‘khaki’, ‘lavender’, ‘lavenderblush’, ‘lawngreen’, ‘lemonchiffon’, ‘lightblue’, ‘lightcoral’, ‘lightcyan’, ‘lightgoldenrodyellow’, ‘lightgray’, ‘lightgreen’, ‘lightgrey’, ‘lightpink’, ‘lightsalmon’, ‘lightseagreen’, ‘lightskyblue’, ‘lightslategray’, ‘lightslategrey’, ‘lightsteelblue’, ‘lightyellow’, ‘limegreen’, ‘linen’, ‘magenta’, ‘mediumaquamarine’, ‘mediumblue’, ‘mediumorchid’, ‘mediumpurple’, ‘mediumseagreen’, ‘mediumslateblue’, ‘mediumspringgreen’, ‘mediumturquoise’, ‘mediumvioletred’, ‘midnightblue’, ‘mintcream’, ‘mistyrose’, ‘moccasin’, ‘navajowhite’, ‘oldlace’, ‘olivedrab’, ‘orangered’, ‘orchid’, ‘palegoldenrod’, ‘palegreen’, ‘paleturquoise’, ‘palevioletred’, ‘papayawhip’, ‘peachpuff’, ‘peru’, ‘pink’, ‘plum’, ‘powderblue’, ‘rosybrown’, ‘royalblue’, ‘saddlebrown’, ‘salmon’, ‘sandybrown’, ‘seagreen’, ‘seashell’, ‘sienna’, ‘skyblue’, ‘slateblue’, ‘slategray’, ‘slategrey’, ‘snow’, ‘springgreen’, ‘steelblue’, ‘tan’, ‘thistle’, ‘tomato’, ‘turquoise’, ‘violet’, ‘wheat’, ‘whitesmoke’, ‘yellowgreen’, ‘rebeccapurple’]

CSS color property to use as the background of the entire view.

Default value: "white"

bardict, BarConfig

Bar-Specific Config

boxplotdict, BoxPlotConfig

Box Config

circledict, MarkConfig

Circle-Specific Config

concatdict, CompositionConfig

Default configuration for all concatenation and repeat view composition operators ( concat, hconcat, vconcat, and repeat )

countTitlestr

Default axis and legend title for count fields.

Default value: 'Count of Records.

customFormatTypesbool

Allow the formatType property for text marks and guides to accept a custom formatter function registered as a Vega expression.

errorbanddict, ErrorBandConfig

ErrorBand Config

errorbardict, ErrorBarConfig

ErrorBar Config

facetdict, CompositionConfig

Default configuration for the facet view composition operator

fieldTitleLiteral[‘verbal’, ‘functional’, ‘plain’]

Defines how Vega-Lite generates title for fields. There are three possible styles:

  • "verbal" (Default) - displays function in a verbal style (e.g., “Sum of field”, “Year-month of date”, “field (binned)”).

  • "function" - displays function using parentheses and capitalized texts (e.g., “SUM(field)”, “YEARMONTH(date)”, “BIN(field)”).

  • "plain" - displays only the field name without functions (e.g., “field”, “date”, “field”).

fontstr

Default font for all text marks, titles, and labels.

geoshapedict, MarkConfig

Geoshape-Specific Config

headerdict, HeaderConfig

Header configuration, which determines default properties for all headers.

For a full list of header configuration options, please see the corresponding section of in the header documentation.

headerColumndict, HeaderConfig

Header configuration, which determines default properties for column headers.

For a full list of header configuration options, please see the corresponding section of in the header documentation.

headerFacetdict, HeaderConfig

Header configuration, which determines default properties for non-row/column facet headers.

For a full list of header configuration options, please see the corresponding section of in the header documentation.

headerRowdict, HeaderConfig

Header configuration, which determines default properties for row headers.

For a full list of header configuration options, please see the corresponding section of in the header documentation.

imagedict, RectConfig

Image-specific Config

legenddict, LegendConfig

Legend configuration, which determines default properties for all legends. For a full list of legend configuration options, please see the corresponding section of in the legend documentation.

linedict, LineConfig

Line-Specific Config

lineBreakstr, dict, ExprRef

A delimiter, such as a newline character, upon which to break text strings into multiple lines. This property provides a global default for text marks, which is overridden by mark or style config settings, and by the lineBreak mark encoding channel. If signal-valued, either string or regular expression (regexp) values are valid.

localedict, Locale

Locale definitions for string parsing and formatting of number and date values. The locale object should contain number and/or time properties with locale definitions. Locale definitions provided in the config block may be overridden by the View constructor locale option.

markdict, MarkConfig

Mark Config

normalizedNumberFormatstr

If normalizedNumberFormatType is not specified, D3 number format for axis labels, text marks, and tooltips of normalized stacked fields (fields with stack: "normalize" ). For example "s" for SI units. Use D3’s number format pattern.

If config.normalizedNumberFormatType is specified and config.customFormatTypes is true, this value will be passed as format alongside datum.value to the config.numberFormatType function. Default value: %

normalizedNumberFormatTypestr

Custom format type for config.normalizedNumberFormat.

Default value: undefined – This is equilvalent to call D3-format, which is exposed as format in Vega-Expression. Note: You must also set customFormatTypes to true to use this feature.

numberFormatstr

If numberFormatType is not specified, D3 number format for guide labels, text marks, and tooltips of non-normalized fields (fields without stack: "normalize" ). For example "s" for SI units. Use D3’s number format pattern.

If config.numberFormatType is specified and config.customFormatTypes is true, this value will be passed as format alongside datum.value to the config.numberFormatType function.

numberFormatTypestr

Custom format type for config.numberFormat.

Default value: undefined – This is equilvalent to call D3-format, which is exposed as format in Vega-Expression. Note: You must also set customFormatTypes to true to use this feature.

paddingdict, float, ExprRef, Padding

The default visualization padding, in pixels, from the edge of the visualization canvas to the data rectangle. If a number, specifies padding for all sides. If an object, the value should have the format {"left": 5, "top": 5, "right": 5, "bottom": 5} to specify padding for each side of the visualization.

Default value : 5

paramsSequence[dict, TopLevelParameter, VariableParameter, TopLevelSelectionParameter]

Dynamic variables or selections that parameterize a visualization.

pointdict, MarkConfig

Point-Specific Config

projectiondict, ProjectionConfig

Projection configuration, which determines default properties for all projections. For a full list of projection configuration options, please see the corresponding section of the projection documentation.

rangedict, RangeConfig

An object hash that defines default range arrays or schemes for using with scales. For a full list of scale range configuration options, please see the corresponding section of the scale documentation.

rectdict, RectConfig

Rect-Specific Config

ruledict, MarkConfig

Rule-Specific Config

scaledict, ScaleConfig

Scale configuration determines default properties for all scales. For a full list of scale configuration options, please see the corresponding section of the scale documentation.

selectiondict, SelectionConfig

An object hash for defining default properties for each type of selections.

squaredict, MarkConfig

Square-Specific Config

styledict, StyleConfigIndex

An object hash that defines key-value mappings to determine default properties for marks with a given style. The keys represent styles names; the values have to be valid mark configuration objects.

textdict, MarkConfig

Text-Specific Config

tickdict, TickConfig

Tick-Specific Config

timeFormatstr

Default time format for raw time values (without time units) in text marks, legend labels and header labels.

Default value: "%b %d, %Y" Note: Axes automatically determine the format for each label automatically so this config does not affect axes.

timeFormatTypestr

Custom format type for config.timeFormat.

Default value: undefined – This is equilvalent to call D3-time-format, which is exposed as timeFormat in Vega-Expression. Note: You must also set customFormatTypes to true and there must not be a timeUnit defined to use this feature.

titledict, TitleConfig

Title configuration, which determines default properties for all titles. For a full list of title configuration options, please see the corresponding section of the title documentation.

tooltipFormatdict, FormatConfig

Define custom format configuration for tooltips. If unspecified, default format config will be applied.

traildict, LineConfig

Trail-Specific Config

viewdict, ViewConfig

Default properties for single view plots.

__init__(arc=Undefined, area=Undefined, aria=Undefined, autosize=Undefined, axis=Undefined, axisBand=Undefined, axisBottom=Undefined, axisDiscrete=Undefined, axisLeft=Undefined, axisPoint=Undefined, axisQuantitative=Undefined, axisRight=Undefined, axisTemporal=Undefined, axisTop=Undefined, axisX=Undefined, axisXBand=Undefined, axisXDiscrete=Undefined, axisXPoint=Undefined, axisXQuantitative=Undefined, axisXTemporal=Undefined, axisY=Undefined, axisYBand=Undefined, axisYDiscrete=Undefined, axisYPoint=Undefined, axisYQuantitative=Undefined, axisYTemporal=Undefined, background=Undefined, bar=Undefined, boxplot=Undefined, circle=Undefined, concat=Undefined, countTitle=Undefined, customFormatTypes=Undefined, errorband=Undefined, errorbar=Undefined, facet=Undefined, fieldTitle=Undefined, font=Undefined, geoshape=Undefined, header=Undefined, headerColumn=Undefined, headerFacet=Undefined, headerRow=Undefined, image=Undefined, legend=Undefined, line=Undefined, lineBreak=Undefined, locale=Undefined, mark=Undefined, normalizedNumberFormat=Undefined, normalizedNumberFormatType=Undefined, numberFormat=Undefined, numberFormatType=Undefined, padding=Undefined, params=Undefined, point=Undefined, projection=Undefined, range=Undefined, rect=Undefined, rule=Undefined, scale=Undefined, selection=Undefined, square=Undefined, style=Undefined, text=Undefined, tick=Undefined, timeFormat=Undefined, timeFormatType=Undefined, title=Undefined, tooltipFormat=Undefined, trail=Undefined, view=Undefined, **kwds)#

Methods

__init__([arc, area, aria, autosize, axis, ...])

copy([deep, ignore])

Return a copy of the object

from_dict(dct[, validate, _wrapper_classes])

Construct class from a dictionary representation

from_json(json_string[, validate])

Instantiate the object from a valid JSON string

resolve_references([schema])

Resolve references in the context of this object's schema or root schema.

to_dict([validate, ignore, context])

Return a dictionary representation of the object

to_json([validate, indent, sort_keys, ...])

Emit the JSON representation for this object as a string.

validate(instance[, schema])

Validate the instance against the class schema in the context of the rootschema.

validate_property(name, value[, schema])

Validate a property against property schema in the context of the rootschema