Highstock padding/margin with range selector - highcharts

For the following jsFiddle,I want to use the rangeSelector (but do not want to show them on chart) because I want the chart always show the data for 3 months, which means I cannot disable the range selector.
To hide the range selector I have used:
buttonTheme: {
visibility: 'hidden'
},
labelStyle: {
visibility: 'hidden'
}
Now on top of chart there is a space/blank area. I want to hide it. The reason is I want to show the chart in a small box. And this blank area because of range selector looks awkward in layout. I am thinking is there a way to add negative margin below range selector buttons?

You can set chart's margin, spacing top to negative value.
chart: {
renderTo: 'container',
spacingTop: 0,
marginTop: -35
},
Or better, set the range selector's height to 0.
rangeSelector: {
height: 0,
example: http://jsfiddle.net/cpvLzLso/34/

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Higcharts - marginBottom does not let rendering xAxis series ellipsis

The space for xAxis generally is rendered dynamically by the Highcharts library and add the ellipsis in the correct place, making it display from the start and cutting it when it stop displaying it on the graph with some ellipsis.
When I try to change that space to not render dynamically, the property marginBottom does it,but it stops picking up when the text should start displaying and the start of the text is cutted from the down of the graph. Is there a way to render correctly the text at the bottom from the highcharts? I Do need it to be rotate 270 degrees, and not let the auto rotate work, and don't want to collapse more part of the graph just for displaying the text.
Here is a sample when that happes:
Highcharts.chart('container', {
chart: {
height: 350,
spacingBottom: 0,
marginBottom: 50,
type: "column"
},
series: [{
name: 'Total',
data: [1,2,3,4,5]
}],
xAxis: {
categories: ["very long name to test if the characters are rigth and cropped",
"Not so long but long enough", "I still am long and out of the screen",
"lets see how is cropped", "cropped", "crop"],
labels: {
rotation: 270
}
}
});
Sample fiddle with marginBottom : https://jsfiddle.net/ragmar/6ru4hze3/
If you remove the marginBottom, even the legend move down a bit.
It is possible to do this behavior? even including some css?
Thanks in advance
To make it work the way you want, you have to make some modifications in Highcharts core. For example you can do not use marginBottom option, but set fixed value as a commonWidth variable in renderUnsquish method:
if (attr.rotation) {
commonWidth = (
maxLabelLength > chart.chartHeight * 0.5 ?
40 : // changed from 'chart.chartHeight * 0.33'
maxLabelLength
);
if (!textOverflowOption) {
commonTextOverflow = 'ellipsis';
}
}
Live demo: https://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/moL1tw6c/

How to fix hidden dataLabel in highcharts?

Please take a look at JSFIDDLE. Here, the green bar doesn't display any value. I know adding overflow:"none", crop:false will display the value. But it goes out of plotting area, sometimes for larger numbers it overlaps title. I would like to get green bar value (ONLY) inside the bar instead of hiding the value.
For particular column (i.e green column) label value to be inside, you can add attribute inside: true in data .Refer dataLabels.inside for more info
series: [{
color: colors[0],
showInLegend: false,
data: [{
....//first value
, {
y: 3500,
name: 'Second',
color: colors[1],
dataLabels: {
inside: true //labels will be inside column
}
},... // third and remaining
});
Fiddle demonstration

Highstock/Highcharts - yAxis Label top

Using Highstock or Highcharts, I want my yAxis label on the top. What I don't want, is a varying margin between the left border of the chart and the beginning of the grid lines.
If you take a look at the following fiddle:
JSFiddle
Relevant part is:
yAxis: {
title: {
align: 'high',
offset: 0,
text: 'Rainfall (mm)',
rotation: 0,
y: -10
}
}
This is almost correct, but the offset margin is taken from the label width. If I set offset: -41 instead, it looks exactly right. The problem is, that the -41 is due to the rendered length of the text. If I change the text to something of a different length, the label is positioned wrongly again.
Is there any possibility to make sure, that the positions are always "correct" in my above definition of correct, regardless of the text length?
Screenshot, left part is wrong, right part is correct:
I think that you can use text-anchor property to style your title. Here you can find more information about text-anchor property: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/text-anchor
title: {
align: 'high',
text: 'Rainfall (mm)',
style: {
'text-anchor': 'start'
},
rotation: 0,
y: -10,
x: -25
},
I think that you need to use chart.marginLeft parameter as well. It will give you a chance to set specific left margin for your chart. Here you can find information about it.
http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#chart.marginLeft
You may also use xAxis.labels.reserveSpace parameter to turn off reserving space for labels: http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#xAxis.labels.reserveSpace
Here you can find live example how your chart can work with this options:
http://jsfiddle.net/Ljwp7694/
Kind regards,

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However, when I set height and width, in some cases, highchart will not draw some of the bar labels, even though I think there are places to draw them. Can someone explain this or maybe provide a workaround (without removing height)?
The jsfiddle is http://jsfiddle.net/daxu/md2zk/68/
labels: {
style: {
color: 'black',
fontFamily: 'DINPro',
fontSize: '7.8409px',
fontWeight: 'normal'
},
formatter: function () {
return this.value;
}
}
At the beginning, remove datalabels configuration per each point and use common options. There, you can disable hiding labels by crop option.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/md2zk/70/

How to position datalabel at the base of bar series

I have a (horizontal) bar chart and I want to add dataLabel's at the base (or left most part) of the bar for the series.
similar to this: http://flowingdata.com/2009/05/22/poll-results-what-data-related-area-are-you-most-interested-in/
Is there a way using the formatter function to set this value?
plotOptions: {
bar: {
dataLabels: {
formatter: function() {
this.series.options.dataLabels.x = ?????????????
return this.y;
},
The task of the formatter function is to format the label text. It gives you a way to modify the internal state of the chart, but that's really just a hack and as such may or may not work.
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yAxis: { // The y axis is horizontal 'bar' layout
stackLabels: {
style: {
color: 'white' // Make the labels white
},
enabled: true, // Enable stack labels
verticalAlign: 'middle', // Position them vertically in the middle
align: 'left' // Align them to the left edge of the bar
}
}
You will also need to set stacking to 'normal':
Example on jsfiddle:
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