Higchahrts click entire column to trigger point click event - highcharts

Question

Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/sxm38nsj/4/
When the xAxis is a string, I can get the index of click point.
But when the xAxis is datetime, how can I get the index? Or how can I trigger the point's click events?
eg:http://jsfiddle.net/sxm38nsj/5/
$(function () {
$('#container').highcharts({
chart: {
type: 'column',
events: {
click:function(e){
var column = Math.abs(Math.round(e.xAxis[0].value));
alert('bland:',column);
this.series[0].data[column].firePointEvent('click', event);
}
}
},
xAxis: {
type: 'datetime'
},
plotOptions: {
column: {
//pointPadding: 0.2,
//borderWidth: 0
point:{
events:{
click: function(){
alert(this.x);
console.log(this);
}
}
}
}
},
series: [{data: [29.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0, 135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6, 54.4],
pointStart: Date.UTC(2010, 0, 1),
pointInterval: 24 * 3600 * 1000 // one day
}]
});
});

Answer 1

You can use built-in method series.searchPoint() to find closest point to the mouse (or rather event) position, for example: http://jsfiddle.net/sxm38nsj/6/
chart: {
type: 'column',
events: {
click: function(e) {
var chart = this;
point = chart.series[0].searchPoint(chart.pointer.normalize(e));
if (point) {
point.firePointEvent('click', event);
}
}
}
},
Another solution is to find closest point to your column value. You can search series.xData array, to get index of the closest point to the mouse event.