Highcharts Stacked Bar: How to remove spacing between bars - highcharts

Question

I'm working with the highcharts stacked bar and want to remove some space between the bars so I can make room for some text I am rendering.
I've tried pointPadding and groupPadding but those are not working. I've tried minPadding/maxPadding on the xAxis and that did not do anything as well.
Seems the only way get rid of that space is to change the width of the whole chart which is what I really don't want.
Here is my fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/nick1572/dfcysj39/
$("#profit-chart").highcharts({
lang: {
thousandsSep: ","
},
chart: {
type: "column",
style: {
fontFamily: "Open Sans, sans-serif"
}
},
legend: {
enabled: false
},
title: {
text: ""
},
xAxis: {
//minPadding: 20, Not working here
//maxPadding:1, Not working here either
categories: [ "other business", "somekind of business profit" ],
labels: {
style: {
color: "#333333",
fontSize: "15px"
}
}
},
yAxis: {
gridLineDashStyle: "longdash",
title: {
text: "Dollars"
},
labels: {
enabled: true,
formatter: function() {
return "$" + Highcharts.numberFormat(this.value, 0, "", ",");
}
}
},
tooltip: {
enabled: false
},
plotOptions: {
column: {
stacking: "normal",
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
color: "white",
inside: true,
useHTML: true,
style: {
fontSize: "18px",
fontWeight: "600"
}
}
},
series: {
//pointPadding: 0,
//groupPadding: 0, this does not work
animation: {
complete: function() {
}
},
pointWidth: 145
}
},
series: [ {
color: "#327631",
data: [ 0, 850 ],
stack: "female",
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
formatter: function() {
if (0 != this.y) return "$" + Highcharts.numberFormat(this.y, 0);
else return null;
}
}
}, {
color: "#ADC9AD ",
data: [ 10000, 10000 ],
stack: "female",
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
formatter: function() {
return "$" + Highcharts.numberFormat(this.y, 0);
}
}
}]
},
function (chart) { // on complete
chart.renderer.text('<span class="bracketed">}</span> <em>Profit</em>', 870, 85)
.css({
color: 'green',
fontSize: '24px',
x: 200
})
.add();
});//End HighCharts Call
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

it seems that the point width setting is conflicting with the groupPadding and pointPadding .. if you remove the pointWidth: 145 in the series and add groupPadding and pointPadding to the column you will get the gap removed. on the flipside however the bars will take up the entire available width of your chart.
column: {
stacking: "normal",
groupPadding: 0,//add here
pointPadding: 0,//add here
...
}
http://jsfiddle.net/dfcysj39/9/

Answer 2

Ok so I think this may solve my problem at this point. Not sure if its the right way but it works. The pointPadding and groupPadding partially worked for this particular problem. I thank you Birgit for taking the time to respond!!!
What I did to solve this is explicitly put a spacingRight on the chart to give the plot area more space w/o making the bars wider. I did go back and add some pointPadding to make the cols a little wider for aesthetics. This allowed for the rendered text to show.
http://jsfiddle.net/nick1572/dfcysj39/
$("#profit-chart").highcharts({
lang: {
thousandsSep: ","
},
chart: {
spacingRight: 220,
type: "column",
width: 1200,
style: {
fontFamily: "Open Sans, sans-serif"
}
},
legend: {
enabled: false
},
title: {
text: ""
},
xAxis: {
//minPadding: 20, Not working here
//maxPadding:1, Not working here either
categories: [ "other business", "somekind of business profit" ],
labels: {
style: {
color: "#333333",
fontSize: "15px"
}
}
},
yAxis: {
gridLineDashStyle: "longdash",
title: {
text: "Dollars"
},
labels: {
enabled: true,
formatter: function() {
return "$" + Highcharts.numberFormat(this.value, 0, "", ",");
}
}
},
tooltip: {
enabled: false
},
plotOptions: {
column: {
stacking: "normal",
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
color: "white",
inside: true,
useHTML: true,
style: {
fontSize: "18px",
fontWeight: "600"
}
}
},
series: {
pointPadding: 0.05,
//groupPadding: 0, this does not work
animation: {
complete: function() {
}
}//,
//pointWidth: 145
}
},
series: [ {
color: "#327631",
data: [ 0, 850 ],
stack: "female",
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
formatter: function() {
if (0 != this.y) return "$" + Highcharts.numberFormat(this.y, 0);
else return null;
}
}
}, {
color: "#ADC9AD ",
data: [ 10000, 10000 ],
stack: "female",
dataLabels: {
enabled: true,
formatter: function() {
return "$" + Highcharts.numberFormat(this.y, 0);
}
}
}]
},
function (chart) { // on complete
chart.renderer.text('<span class="bracketed">}</span> <em>Profit</em>', 900, 84)
.css({
color: 'green',
fontSize: '24px',
x: 200
})
.add();
});//End HighCharts Call