formatting x-axis labels in highchart - highcharts

I'm just wondering can anyone tell me how I'd go about formatting my x-axis labels on my highchart?
I've set min:0 and max:300 but I want to trim the last digit on the min and max. i.e 280 would become 28.
The code I thought would work was:
labels: {
formatter: function () {
return this.value.substring(0, 3);
}
}
But that seems to crash the highchart. Any Ideas?

this.value is a number, not a string. You could convert to a string and then take a substring.
xAxis: {
labels: {
formatter: function () {
return this.value.toString().substring(0, 2);
}
}
},
But, it's not a very robust solution. If your numbers grow above 999, you'll still only get the first 2 digits. I think you'd be better off with something like this:
xAxis: {
labels: {
formatter: function () {
// return this.value.toString().substring(0, 2);
return Math.round(this.value/10);
}
}
},
Also, be aware that you will have to do this same transformation to tooltips and point labels. It might make more sense to transform your data, than to transform all the ways highcharts talks about your data.
http://jsfiddle.net/3y8dnh5u/2/

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Highcharts yaxis labels Format

Is there any way to format yaxis into something I want.
In fact, sometimes on the yaxis the data is shown with (k) on the right instead of thousand.
I want to remove (k). How can I do it?
The image of yaxis I want:
You can use formatter (http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#yAxis.labels.formatter) and numberFormat() http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#Highcharts.numberFormat()
http://jsfiddle.net/K2X3Y/
yAxis: {
labels: {
formatter: function () {
return Highcharts.numberFormat(this.value,0);
}
}
},

how to get last value shown yAxis highcharts

I'm eager to find out if its possible to place last value in series to yAxis in highcharts.
It supposed to be simple label with last point value shown on the right side of the charts, dinamically chanhing when we add points to the chart.
thanks!
There are probably several methods.
One that I would use can be seen in this example:
http://jsfiddle.net/jlbriggs/zXLZA/
data: [7,12,16,32,{y:64,dataLabels:{enabled:true}}]
This makes use of the datalabels, which are enabled only for the last data point.
The downside to this is that you need to specify that in your data. Not hard to do, but may not fit your needs.
Another way would be to use a second y axis, and the tickPositions property:
http://jsfiddle.net/jlbriggs/zXLZA/4/
Another possible solution is to use tickPositioner with second yAxis. In such case with dynamic data, everything will be computed itself, see: http://jsfiddle.net/3c4tU/
tickPositioner: function(min,max){
var data = this.chart.yAxis[0].series[0].processedYData;
//last point
return [data[data.length-1]];
}
to get the highest value in any axis and series, use the function getExtreme(). It will find you the extreme value (highest or lowest depending of the argument you put behind). Select the chart, the axis and the series before.
here's an example: (whith your chart associated to the variable 'yourChart')
var highestValue = yourChart.yAxis[0].getExtremes().dataMax;
It will return the highest value of the first Y-axis' associated series.
While this below will return the lowest of the second X-axis' associated series:
var lowestValue = yourChart.xAxis[1].getExtremes().dataMin;
My recommended solution:
plotOptions: {
areaspline: {
fillOpacity: 0.2,
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
borderRadius: 5,
backgroundColor: 'rgba(252, 255, 197, 0.7)',
borderWidth: 1,
borderColor: '#AAA',
y: -6,
formatter: function() {
if (this.x == this.series.data[this.series.data.length-1].x) {
return this.series.name + ': '+this.y;
} else {
return null;
}
}
}
}
}
we can make use of formatter for this
here is an example to display the last value
http://jsfiddle.net/kgNy4/1/
here is an example to display maximum value
http://jsfiddle.net/kgNy4/
In the example I have put
dataLabels: {
enabled: true
}
so that formatter function will be executed
I hope this will be useful for you

Highcharts - line chart dataLabels on every other point?

I have a Highcharts line graph that has dataLabels configured in the plotOptions. This is all working well and I have a nice label displayed over each point.
plotOptions: {
line: {
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
formatter: function() {
return '$' + Highcharts.numberFormat(Math.round(this.y),0,0,",");
}
}
}
}
However, is there a way to set an interval that determines how often the dataLabels appear over the points? I want to show every point in my graph, but due to space constraints, only show the dataLabel every 2 or 3 points.
Edit:
Difficulty level: My graph has multiple y-axes, uses datetime for the x-axis, and has irregular data.
http://jsfiddle.net/SQkMW/68/
Yes, you could just return a blank string if the point x mod 2 is 0, for every 2nd to show up, for example (http://jsfiddle.net/HzYtV/):
formatter: function() {
if(this.point.x % 2 == 0) return '';
return this.y +'mm';
}
For datetime axis you will have to create a variable and increment it manually http://jsfiddle.net/SQkMW/69/

Highcharts still using percentage for y-axis compare

I'm pretty clueless at this point, on some of my charts I am giving these options:
var plotOptions, yAxis;
plotOptions = {
series: {
compare: 'value'
}
};
yAxis = {
labels: {
formatter: function() {
return this.value;
}
},
plotLines: [
{
value: 0,
width: 2,
color: 'silver'
}
]
};
And the chart still displays percentages in the y-axis, just without the % sign. I did a console.log of 'this' in the formatter tag, and the value attribute is correct (that is, returning the value instead of a percentage, but it doesn't seem to be applying it to the chart. Any thoughts?
I actually just ended up using a spline chart instead. Basically what I was trying to say was that the y-axis was displaying the same values where I used "compare: 'percentage'" or "compare: 'value'", but the spline chart seems to be rendering the labels as the actual data points (4000 as opposed to 25%).

Highcharts Pie Chart Label Threshold

Is there a preferred way to eliminate or aggregate labels below a certain threshold when using HighCharts pie chart? I'd rather not have to rollup all values below a certain percentage into 'other' if I can. I've checked the docs and can't find anything. It would be very useful!
Thanks in anticipation.
The best way to achieve this is to use dataLabels formatter for pie chart like this:
plotOptions: {
pie: {
dataLabels: {
formatter: function(){
if (this.percentage < SOME_VALUE) return "";
return VALUE_TO_SHOW;
}
}
}
}
Replace SOME_VALUE and VALUE_TOSHOW with desired values. But there will be some problems if you're using connector for you labels (it is always visible).
A very late answer to this question:
If instead of returning empty string, you instead return null, the label AND connector will not show, and you'll be able to achieve this effect without removing the connector:
Example: jsfiddle
plotOptions: {
pie: {
dataLabels: {
formatter: function(){
if (this.percentage < SOME_VALUE) return null;
return VALUE_TO_SHOW;
}
}
}
}

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