set by default for bar traces with

Author: emilykl

src/traces/bar/defaults.js

@@ -148,7 +148,17 @@ function handleText(traceIn, traceOut, layout, coerce, textposition, opts) {
         if(moduleHasSelected) coerce('selected.textfont.color');
         if(moduleHasUnselected) coerce('unselected.textfont.color');
         if(moduleHasConstrain) coerce('constraintext');
-        if(moduleHasCliponaxis) coerce('cliponaxis');
+        if(moduleHasCliponaxis) {
+            if(traceOut.text && textposition === 'outside') {
+                // When `textposition` is `'outside'`, bar labels are very frequently clipped
+                // since text is not included in autorange calculations.
+                // So we set `cliponaxis` to `false` by default in that case to prevent clipping;
+                // otherwise we use the normal default for `cliponaxis`, which is `true`.
+                coerce('cliponaxis', false);
+            } else {
+                coerce('cliponaxis');
+            }
+        }
         if(moduleHasTextangle) coerce('textangle');
 
         coerce('texttemplate');