{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bokeh/bokeh/issues/2821","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bokeh/bokeh/issues/2821/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bokeh/bokeh/issues/2821/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bokeh/bokeh/issues/2821/events","html_url":"https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/issues/2821","id":105341038,"number":2821,"title":"filled bands ","user":{"login":"PBrockmann","id":5402758,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5402758?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/PBrockmann","html_url":"https://github.com/PBrockmann","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PBrockmann/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PBrockmann/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PBrockmann/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PBrockmann/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PBrockmann/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PBrockmann/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PBrockmann/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PBrockmann/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PBrockmann/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bokeh/bokeh/labels/type:%20discussion","name":"type: discussion","color":"2659A0"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-09-08T09:40:23Z","updated_at":"2015-09-08T14:08:24Z","closed_at":"2015-09-08T14:08:24Z","body":"I would like to plot an filled area over an axis and for a specific range of values to indicate a specific area of interest as in the following image (vertical areas in grey are volcano episodes).\r\n\r\n![filled_bands_on_xaxis](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5402758/9731321/7a93c910-561c-11e5-955b-4e81c7e6f238.png)\r\n\r\nI have already posted this request to bokeh google group as\r\nhttps://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/#!topic/bokeh/EW_aKTHkQ_s\r\nbut allow myself to reference it as an issue.\r\n\r\nThe suggestion to use quads leads to a display set from -1000 to 1000\r\n```\r\nplot.quad(top=1000, bottom=-1000, left=1, right=5, color=\"#BBBBBB\", alpha=0.5)\r\n```\r\n\r\n![quads](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5402758/9731433/285ea664-561d-11e5-878e-2f33de3fb40a.png)\r\n\r\nReading http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/styling.html#bands\r\nan additionnal property \"band_limits\" to xgrid and ygrid would fit:\r\np.xgrid.band_limits = [1, 5]\r\n\r\n"}}