yoffset of label not working?

[an5ir]

the following:
hv.Labels({('x', 'y') : [['a',1], ['b',2]], 'text':['a', 'b']}, ['x','y'], 'text')*hv.Scatter([('a',1), ('b', 2)]).opts(padding=0.1)

it will plot the following:

but if i try add a yoffset to move the labels above the scatter point:
hv.Labels({('x', 'y') : [['a',1], ['b',2]], 'text':['a', 'b']}, ['x','y'], 'text').opts(yoffset=0.2)*hv.Scatter([('a',1), ('b', 2)]).opts(padding=0.1)

i do not get any output in Jupiter notebook. the following errors in:

is there any way to manipulate the yoffset above the points for categorical plots?

[an5ir]

is there a work around for this?

[sephib]

In stackoverflow there is another example for the bug

[SandervandenOord]

If you switch the holoviews backend to plotly using hv.extension('plotly') then yoffset is working.
So within holoviews it is working for plotly, but not for the bokeh backend.

[SandervandenOord]

Plotly backend has specific tests for xoffset and yoffset:

holoviews/holoviews/tests/plotting/plotly/testlabelplot.py

Line 44 in fc3edd7

def test_labels_yoffset(self):

I couldn't find those for bokeh or matplotlib:
https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/blob/master/holoviews/tests/plotting/bokeh/testlabels.py

[mullimanko]

Hi, this feature could reduce a lot of trouble. Is there any update on this?

[shenker]

Confirming that this bug is still present in the latest holoviews/bokeh.

[droumis]

confirming that this bug is still present in HoloViews 1.17