function dataToTraces(data, threshold) {
var fillers = [];
var emptyFiller = {
x: [],
y: [],
fill: "toself",
mode: "lines",
line: {
width: 0
},
opacity: 0.5,
fillcolor: "#8adcb3",
showlegend: false,
legendgroup: "main"
}
fillers.push(emptyFiller);
for (var i = 0; i < data.y.length; i += 1) {
if (data.y[i] >= threshold) {
if (i !== 0 && data.y[i - 1] < threshold) {
fillers[fillers.length - 1].x.push(data.x[i - 1] + (threshold - data.y[i - 1]) / (data.y[i] - data.y[i - 1]));
fillers[fillers.length - 1].y.push(threshold);
}
fillers[fillers.length - 1].x.push(data.x[i]);
fillers[fillers.length - 1].y.push(data.y[i]);
} else if (fillers[fillers.length - 1].x.length > 0) {
if (i !== 0 && data.y[i - 1] !== threshold) {
fillers[fillers.length - 1].x.push(data.x[i - 1] + (threshold - data.y[i - 1]) / (data.y[i] - data.y[i - 1]));
fillers[fillers.length - 1].y.push(threshold);
}
fillers.push(emptyFiller);
}
}
return fillers;
}
var data = [{
x: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8],
y: [1, 3, 6, 2, -1, 5, 1, 3, 0],
name: "main",
legendgroup: "main"
}];
var fillers = dataToTraces(data[0], 2);
Plotly.newPlot("myDiv", data.concat(fillers));
<div id="myDiv"></div>
<script src="https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-latest.min.js"></script>