I have a system with lots of highcharts which can be positioned basically anywhere on the page.
Some are very small (e.g. 50px x 50px).
I see we can set tooltip.outside : true
tooltip: {
outside: true
}
This stops the tooltip taking over the whole chart container by breaking it out of the chart and into the window.
However this can cause overflow issues with the window when you're near the edge of the page and I personally prefer a static tooltip.
I'd like to always fix the tooltip to float above the chart, top left with a bit of padding, which for my application will almost always be visible and will avoid overflow issues, e.g.;
I've looked into setting a custom positioner, however, as the "outside" tooltip is now part of the window and not relative to the chart, the positioner sets a fixed position, which isn't suitable for my application.
I'd like the tooltip to always be above the chart regardless of mouse or scroll positions.
Of course I could add a custom element and position it above the chart myself, then applying the tooltip to that, but we have a lot of charts and this seems cumbersome.
Tooltip outside Fiddle
Suggestions?
Thanks
After a bit of poking around in the highstock Tooltip.prototype.getPosition code, it turns out what I needed was this.point.chart.pointer.getChartPosition();
tooltip: {
distance: 40,
outside: true,
positioner: function () {
var point = this;
var chart = point.chart;
var chartPosition = chart.pointer.getChartPosition();
var distance = point.distance;
//Position relative to renderTo container
return {
x: chartPosition.left - distance,
y: chartPosition.top - distance - (point.options.useHTML == true ? point.label.div.offsetHeight : point.label.height)
}
//Alternatively - Position relative to chart plot (ignoring legend)
var containerScaling = chart.containerScaling;
var scaleX = function (val) {
return (containerScaling ? val * containerScaling.scaleX : val);
};
var scaleY = function (val) {
return (containerScaling ? val * containerScaling.scaleY : val);
};
return {
x: chartPosition.left - distance + scaleX(chart.plotLeft),
y: chartPosition.top - distance + scaleY(chart.plotTop) - point.label.height
}
},
},
See working fiddle.
I find it odd that this method is attached to pointer, but it's what I was after.
One thing to note, in the fiddle I use point.label.height, if useHTML:true; use point.label.div.height.
What about using the positioner callback without setting the 'outside' option? It will set the wanted position inside the chart area.
Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/gabjwd2e/
API: https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/tooltip.positioner
Related
When using stacked columns, I would like the tooltip to be positioned above the stacked columns. Right now, the tooltip will appear above the hovered part of the column, like this:
I would like the tooltip to always appear above the stacked columns regardless of the hovered part, like this:
(source: i.ibb.co)
I know about the positioner method, but this function doesn't seem to receive the proper parameters for me to position the tooltip above the stacked columns. In particular I don't know how to properly get the coordinates of the hovered column, all I get is the global position of the cursor.
You can use the shared parameter for a tooltip:
tooltip: {
shared: true
}
Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/us4h659d/
API Reference: https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/tooltip.shared
So I finally managed to do it using Axis.toValue() and Axis.toPixels() values:
https://api.highcharts.com/class-reference/Highcharts.Axis
For my solution to work you need to have a way to get the total value of a stacked column. There may be a way to do it using only the Highcharts object, but I don't like messing too much with the internals of Highcharts for compatibility reasons.
Here's what the positioner method could look like:
function positioner(labelWidth, labelHeight, point)
{
// Default position, assuming mChart is the Highcharts object
var chartY = point.plotY + mChart.plotTop;
var chartX = point.plotX + mChart.plotLeft;
// Move chartY above the stacked column, assuming getTotalColumnValue() exists
var category = Math.round(mChart.xAxis[0].toValue(point.plotX, true));
if(category in mChart.xAxis[0]['categories'])
chartY = mChart.yAxis[0].toPixels(getTotalColumnValue(category), false);
// Move tooltip above the point, centered horizontally
return {
x: chartX - labelWidth / 2,
y: chartY - labelHeight - 10,
};
}
I am working with XRange charts in High Charts where I have custom data labels for my data points. I face a similar problem in 2 scenarios:
When data label text is longer than width of corresponding data point range, it overflows outside and onto adjacent data points and hides their label, like this:
When scrolling across the x-axis, the data labels slide across and overflow even when the data point range isn't wide enough to show. This looks quite confusing;
.
You would notice it looks even worse here;
.
How do I fix this so that the data labels never flow outside the extent of the data point?
I have tried tweaking the "inside" parameter but it only ensures that the label doesn't flow into an adjacent row. Similarly, I looked at the crop and overflow options in the API but couldn't get it to work for me as needed.
I understand the width option in style might let me address the first problem, but I can't have a common absolute value in pixels for all labels as the width of each is dynamic. Also, the second problem still wouldn't be solved.
You can find both issues re-created here : https://jsfiddle.net/td0bsxg1/4/ . I need to handle both of them as gracefully as possible.
Do I need to change some parameter for the data labels?
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
defer: false,
inside: true,
formatter: function () {
return 'Too Long Data Label';
}
}
You can dynamically set individual width style for each data label and define rules for them:
events: {
render: function() {
if (redrawEnabled) {
var points = this.series[0].points,
chart = this,
dataLabelWidth,
width;
redrawEnabled = false;
Highcharts.each(points, function(point) {
width = point.shapeArgs.width;
if (width < 20) {
point.dataLabel.hide();
} else {
point.dataLabel.show();
}
point.dataLabel.css({
width: width
});
});
chart.series[0].isDirty = true;
chart.redraw();
redrawEnabled = true;
}
}
}
Live demo: https://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/wo0q9nzr/
I have this kind of graphics : https://www.highcharts.com/demo/column-stacked-percent
My problem is that, like in the example, the tooltip lies on the top of each bar. Using the positioner property of the tooltip gives me the possibility of placing it somewhere, however the point.plotY property is always 0. I think that this comes from the fact that tooltip is shared.
I need to place the tooltip on bottom when i'm hovering the top series, because I have some information between bars hidden by the tooltip.
How can I get this point.plotY "real" value or overcome the problem ?
When you have a stacked column, you can get the hover points via this.chart.hoverPoints (this is the tooltip) and choose the point from the stacked column.
If want a specific point which is not part of the hovered column - you can access series object and its via this.chart.series[seriesIndex].data[pointIndex].
Positioner for the tooltip which appears in the bottom point:
positioner: function (w, h, p) {
const chart = this.chart
const points = chart.hoverPoints
if (points && points.length) {
const i = points.length - 1
return { x: points[i].plotX + chart.plotLeft - w / 2, y: points[i].plotY + chart.plotTop}
}
return { x: 0, y: -9e7 }
}
example: http://jsfiddle.net/8acems26/
I have a column chart that has yAxis labels inside the plot area. DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/o4abatfo/
This is how I have set up the labels:
yAxis: {
labels: {
align: 'left',
x: 5,
y: -3
}
}
The problem is that the leftmost column is so near the plot area edge that labels are overlapping it. Is there a way to adjust the plot area padding so that the columns would start a bit further on the right?
You can set min value as -0.49.
http://jsfiddle.net/o4abatfo/2/
One possible solution:
Keep the labels on the outside, and apply the plotBackgroundColor as the chart backgroundColor.
This means that the legend will be encased in the background color too, but, again, it's on option.
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/jlbriggs/o4abatfo/11/
I asked the same thing in the Highcharts forum and got this solution as a reply from #paweł-fus:
var chartExtraMargin = 30;
Highcharts.wrap(Highcharts.Axis.prototype, 'setAxisSize', function (p) {
p.call(this);
if (this.isXAxis) {
this.left += chartExtraMargin;
this.width -= chartExtraMargin;
this.len = Math.max(this.horiz ? this.width : this.height, 0);
this.pos = this.horiz ? this.left : this.top;
}
});
However, adding this made the tooltips appear in the wrong position. This was fixed by overriding the Tooltip.prototype.getAnchor() method and adding the extra margin in the x coordinate:
Highcharts.wrap(Highcharts.Tooltip.prototype, 'getAnchor', function(p, points, mouseEvent) {
var anchor = p.call(this, points, mouseEvent);
anchor[0] += chartExtraMargin;
return anchor;
});
I'm using reveal.js (http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/) together with Highcharts JS but i have problems with tooltips position. For example, if i use a line with the months on the x axis, when i put the mouse over the point in january the tooltip its ok, but when i put the mouse over december the tooltip shows me the october data. The tooltip for each month is displaced more and more.
You can see http://lideria.net/presentacion/index1.php to see the problem
This may be problem with Highcharts which us already reported here. Also there is suggested workaround: http://jsfiddle.net/highcharts/BD3R7/
reveal.js autoscales the viewport with a css zoom tag. If you inspect class="slides" div, you'll see something like this:
<div class="slides" style="width: 960px; height: 700px; zoom: 0.8331428571428572;">
Here the content (the chart) is scaled 80% of normal size and Highcharts loses it's ability to calculate positions properly if the chart is scaled outside of its control.
With that knowledge, a quick stack overflow search talks about the ability to force 'reveal.js` to not auto-scale content.
You must overwrite the normalize of the H.Pointer.prototype (referenced WRAPPING UP A PLUGIN). Add the following code to document.ready function (maybe somewhere else works, I guess). The reasons are:
reveal.js has separate ways when zoom>1 and zoom<1, e.g., zoom:1.25 and transform:scale(0.75).
So, when a section has several charts and zoom>1, must adjust e.chartX by e.pageX.
(function (H) {
H.wrap(H.Pointer.prototype, 'normalize', function (proceed, e) {
var e = proceed.call(this,e);
var zoom = Reveal.getScale();
if(zoom>1) {
var positionX = e.pageX - e.chartX;
var positionY = e.pageY - e.chartY;
e.chartX = Math.round((e.pageX - positionX*zoom)/zoom);
e.chartY = Math.round((e.pageY - positionY*zoom)/zoom);
} else {
e.chartX = Math.round(e.chartX/zoom);
e.chartY = Math.round(e.chartY/zoom);
}
return e;
});
}(Highcharts));