This is with reference to this post on plotly forums and this discussion on this pull request.

The pull request 5165 disabled text selection on plots without giving a way to enable them via configuration. My use case heavily depended on being able to select text from plots. As I've explained in the discussion on the pull request, my app has timestamps on the x-axis which I'd copy-paste into another app when I see abnormalities in the trend.

Hence, please have a way to select text from the plot svg, like how it was prior to pull request 5165 but could be via a config.