Show tooltip in column chart when hovering crosshair line - highcharts

Question

Using Highstock ("StockChart"), the tooltips for each bar in a column chart will show if hovering the "crosshair line" above the actual bar. See this example:
$('#container').highcharts('StockChart', {
chart: {
alignTicks: false
},
rangeSelector: {
selected: 1
},
title: {
text: 'AAPL Stock Volume'
},
series: [{
type: 'column',
name: 'AAPL Stock Volume',
data: data,
dataGrouping: {
units: [[
'week', // unit name
[1] // allowed multiples
], [
'month',
[1, 2, 3, 4, 6]
]]
}
}]
});
StockChart JSFiddle example
How do I achieve the same result using a Highcharts column chart? An example of a similar Highcharts example column chart can be found here:
$('#container').highcharts({
chart: {
type: 'column'
},
title: {
text: 'World\'s largest cities per 2014'
},
subtitle: {
text: 'Source: Wikipedia'
},
xAxis: {
type: 'category',
labels: {
rotation: -45,
style: {
fontSize: '13px',
fontFamily: 'Verdana, sans-serif'
}
}
},
yAxis: {
min: 0,
title: {
text: 'Population (millions)'
}
},
legend: {
enabled: false
},
tooltip: {
pointFormat: 'Population in 2008: <b>{point.y:.1f} millions</b>'
},
series: [{
name: 'Population',
data: [
['Shanghai', 23.7],
['Lagos', 16.1],
['Instanbul', 14.2],
['Karachi', 14.0],
['Mumbai', 12.5],
['Moscow', 12.1],
['São Paulo', 11.8],
['Beijing', 11.7],
['Guangzhou', 11.1],
['Delhi', 11.1],
['Shenzhen', 10.5],
['Seoul', 10.4],
['Jakarta', 10.0],
['Kinshasa', 9.3],
['Tianjin', 9.3],
['Tokyo', 9.0],
['Cairo', 8.9],
['Dhaka', 8.9],
['Mexico City', 8.9],
['Lima', 8.9]
],
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
rotation: -90,
color: '#FFFFFF',
align: 'right',
format: '{point.y:.1f}', // one decimal
y: 10, // 10 pixels down from the top
style: {
fontSize: '13px',
fontFamily: 'Verdana, sans-serif'
}
}
}]
});
Column JSFiddle example
As you can see in the second example, the tooltips only show when the actual bars are hovered. I realize I can achieve it by setting "shared" to true for the tooltip, like in this example:
$('#container').highcharts({
chart: {
type: 'column'
},
title: {
text: 'Monthly Average Rainfall'
},
subtitle: {
text: 'Source: WorldClimate.com'
},
xAxis: {
categories: [
'Jan',
'Feb',
'Mar',
'Apr',
'May',
'Jun',
'Jul',
'Aug',
'Sep',
'Oct',
'Nov',
'Dec'
],
crosshair: true
},
yAxis: {
min: 0,
title: {
text: 'Rainfall (mm)'
}
},
tooltip: {
headerFormat: '<span style="font-size:10px">{point.key}</span><table>',
pointFormat: '<tr><td style="color:{series.color};padding:0">{series.name}: </td>' +
'<td style="padding:0"><b>{point.y:.1f} mm</b></td></tr>',
footerFormat: '</table>',
shared: true,
useHTML: true
},
plotOptions: {
column: {
pointPadding: 0.2,
borderWidth: 0
}
},
series: [{
name: 'Tokyo',
data: [49.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0, 135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6, 54.4]
}, {
name: 'New York',
data: [83.6, 78.8, 98.5, 93.4, 106.0, 84.5, 105.0, 104.3, 91.2, 83.5, 106.6, 92.3]
}, {
name: 'London',
data: [48.9, 38.8, 39.3, 41.4, 47.0, 48.3, 59.0, 59.6, 52.4, 65.2, 59.3, 51.2]
}, {
name: 'Berlin',
data: [42.4, 33.2, 34.5, 39.7, 52.6, 75.5, 57.4, 60.4, 47.6, 39.1, 46.8, 51.1]
}]
});
Column JSFiddle example using shared tooltip
The problem with that solution is that I don't want a shared tooltip, I want one individual tooltip for each bar.
Thank you.

Answer 1

There is no need of really using more than one series when using shared tooltip. The tooltip can be 'shared by itself' and you achieve the result you need (JSFiddle). Simply adding the tooltip configs of your third example in your second do the trick.
tooltip: {
headerFormat: '<span style="font-size:10px">{point.key}</span><table>',
pointFormat: '<tr><td style="color:{series.color};padding:0">{series.name}: </td>' +
'<td style="padding:0"><b>{point.y:.1f} mm</b></td></tr>',
footerFormat: '</table>',
shared: true,
useHTML: true
},