HighCharts-XRange Series: how to restrict data labels width to stay within corresponding data point width - highcharts

Question

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;
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You would notice it looks even worse here;
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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';
}
}

Answer 1

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/