# Alpha rarefaction plotting issue

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-rarefaction-plotting-issue/4670
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** alpha-rarefaction, pending-development
**Created:** [June 21, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-rarefaction-plotting-issue/4670 "2018-06-21T19:17:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Alan\_Chan](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@Alan\_Chan](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Alan_Chan)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-rarefaction-plotting-issue/4670/1 "2018-06-21T19:17:12Z")

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Hi,

When viewing my alpha-rarefaction.qzv using qiime diversity alpha-rarefaction, it seems more than half of my samples under my Sample Metadata Column "Sample\_Name," don't show up in the legend (even after setting --p-max-depth to something as low as 52). Looking at my "Frequency per Sample" from my table.qzv, I know they should be there. However, when I move to a different Sample Metadata Column like "Species," it seems like the missing data is there. Could something be wrong in the my metadata file? I've attached my alpha-rarefaction.qzv and metadata file just in case.

[alpha-rarefaction-depth0.qzv](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex002/uploads/qiime21/original/2X/9/9f099da52e29e27102a82765a60849b897efe4b0.qzv) (823.9 KB)

[Taiwan-Mapping-File.txt.txt](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex002/uploads/qiime21/original/2X/0/064f707ae45a4ac19438281f2f4a957c65d5793b.txt) (26.3 KB)

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### Author: ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-rarefaction-plotting-issue/4670/2 "2018-06-22T01:02:22Z")

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Hey there @Alan_Chan - looks like you found a bug! 🐛

Thanks for sharing your viz - the samples are all there, they just aren't visible in the rendered plot, due to a misconfigured html element ([open issue here](https://github.com/qiime2/q2-diversity/issues/206)):

 ![28%20PM](https://forum-qiime2-org.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/4/47c09f04d9f121edbd0c1dc76588dcbc45e7811c.png)

I don't have a good workaround for you - I'm sorry! The best I have is this workaround, in Firefox:

Right click on the legend and select "Inspect element". A new window will load in your browser with info about the document. Scroll to this line:

![07%20PM](https://forum-qiime2-org.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/optimized/2X/c/cd1f707557d76f339b5296cd242356304d5df372_2_690x19.png)

Remove the text `overflow-y: hidden` from the `style` attr:

![14%20PM](https://forum.qiime2.org/images/transparent.png)

Now you can close this new window - you should be able to scroll the legend up and down.

Sorry, stay tuned for a fix! :qiime2:

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### Author: ![system](https://forum-qiime2-org.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/2/1/21af5fe23cb6f4579467c66a9ed94e55274ca7bd.svg) [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alpha-rarefaction-plotting-issue/4670/3 "2018-07-23T07:07:01Z")

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