I am new to Highcharts, but I feel it is so powerful and like it very much.
I am doing a multiple series chart. Here is what I have for the legend:
legend: {
enabled: true,
verticalAlign: 'bottom',
align:'center',
}
But I got too much space above and below the legend. See the picture. How can I reduce it?
Update
It seems I can use positive y value in
legend { y: number }
to move legend down, but I cannot seem to be able to reduce the space above the legend. I tried padding and margin without any success.
Thanks and regards.
Use the chart.marginBottom instead
chart: {
marginBottom: 60
}
#jsFiddle to demonstrate margin between chart and legends
If real estate is a concern, also evaluate the option of the making the legends floating
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Using HighChart, I wanted to create grouped column chart with max width, so that when there are less points on x axis the bar does not look wide.
I found some property maxPointWidth which can be applied to achieve the same. but using this there is a gap for each bar within x-point.
How to remove this gap ? I have tried pointPadding:0 as well seems this does not help
I am expecting chart something like below.
Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/mcshiva0507/hx83bbzb/2/
groupPadding will help. https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/plotOptions.column.groupPadding
plotOptions: {
series: {
groupPadding:0.45,
maxPointWidth: 10
}
},
https://jsfiddle.net/mcshiva0507/hx83bbzb/2/
I am generating Highcharts column charts with many columns. The chart is very wide, necessitating scrolling (via the CSS overflow option on the Highcharts div). Is there a way for the Y axis to always be visible, even when one has scrolled to the right? I am aware that Highstock has an option for a scrollbar, but I'm only using Highcharts. Is there anything comparable there?
Thanks in advance.
You can enable scrollbar in highcharts including highstock.js. but using highcharts. see example: http://jsfiddle.net/xVyLr/
xAxis: {
max:5
},
scrollbar: {
enabled:true
},
Is there a programmatic way to provide axis labels for individual bars in a grouped bar chart in HighCharts?
Use case: The use case is when dealing with a graph that is both grouped and stacked. With these graphs it is hard to visually convey (without a tooltip) what the individual bars represent, unless they have individual labels.
Default behavior:
As an example see the HC demo for a stacked and grouped column graph, in which it might initially be unclear that the individual bars in each cluster represent different genders: http://www.highcharts.com/demo/column-stacked-and-grouped
Goal: Here is an illustration of what I am trying to achieve. Is it possible to do this programmatically, such as with a second x-axis? Perhaps another idea would be to use clever placement of the stack total, but of course that would get in the way of showing the actual stack total.
There are a few options which may help you.
Firstly, the stackLabels formatter allows you to determine what is in you label.
Secondly, veticalAlign:"bottom" allows you to position the labels at the bottom of the stack.
Thirdly, the 'y' option allows you to move the label relative to its default position.
The catch is that you can't seem to move the label outside of the chart plot area. One way round this is to start your y-axis at a negative value to give room for the labels. You can then move the position of the x-axis into the chart area.
http://jsfiddle.net/WY6QB/
xAxis: {
offset:-43,
labels:{
y:40
},
categories: ['Apples', 'Oranges', 'Pears', 'Grapes', 'Bananas']
},
stackLabels: {
verticalAlign:"bottom",
y:20,
enabled: true,
formatter: function() {
return this.stack;
}
}
The only thing left is to try to remove the spurious '-2' y axis point.
-EDIT-
If you set startOnTick to false, and give the y-axis min as -1.9, the spurious -2 point goes away.
min: -1.9,
startOnTick:false,
http://jsfiddle.net/V6Cp2/
It is not exactly the same result as your image, but it displays the stackLabels:
yAxis: {
...
stackLabels: {
enabled: true,
formatter: function() {
return this.stack;
}
}
},
It displays the label at the top of the column.
Example
You can use grouping categories plugin.
I am trying to increase the space between charts in this link however i have used minPadding/maxPadding in xAxis and pointWidth: 90/pointPadding: 0 but nothing works. It seems to me that there is forced spacing at the top and bottom of the chart area which is causing this.
http://jsfiddle.net/j7NMC/2/
/*What i have tried */
series:{
pointWidth: 90,
pointPadding: 0
}
xAxis: {minPadding:0, maxPadding:0,}
Any ideas?
Thank you :)
I would suggest changing your data setup. Instead of 3 different series, use 1 series and 3 categories:
series: [{
data: [973,133,107]
}]
example: http://jsfiddle.net/j7NMC/4/
What this does for you:
1) eliminates that wasted space on the chart
2) eliminates need for legend by putting the labels right on the axis next to the bar (drastically improves usability of chart, makes comprehension much easier for user)
3) eliminates need for multiple colors for the bars (drastically improves usability of chart, makes comprehension much easier for user)
EDIT:{
you can try setting the groupPadding to 0 to remove some of the space, as the the 3 series you have displayed are grouped, and extra space is being added because of that.
The options need to be in the 'bar' section of plotOptions, and you don't need a series entry in plotOptions i.e. like this:
plotOptions: {
bar: {
dataLabels: {
enabled: true
},
pointWidth: 10,
pointPadding: 0
}
},
http://jsfiddle.net/A8dpf/
Is it possible to align the y axis tick "outside" on a highstock graph, so that it aligns with the gridline, rather than being "inside" and sat on top of the gridline. The documentation for highstock suggests that it should be placed "outside" by default, but looking at every example of a highstock graph, they always appear to be "inside".
tickPosition: String. The position of the major tick marks relative to the axis line. Can be one of inside and outside. Defaults to "outside".
Highchart example (what I want): http://jsfiddle.net/gh/get/jquery/1.7.2/highslide-software/highcharts.com/tree/master/samples/highcharts/demo/line-basic/
Highstock example (what I get): http://jsfiddle.net/gh/get/jquery/1.7.2/highslide-software/highcharts.com/tree/master/samples/stock/demo/basic-line/
Many thanks in advance.
Update - a solution of sorts
I came to the realisation that a Highcharts.StockChart is just a pre-configured version of Highcharts.Chart in the highstock.js file.
HighCharts.Chart has all the features of a Highcharts.StockChart - not just the features of a Highcharts.Chart in the highcharts.js file.
As a result, I have just used a highstock.js Highcharts.Chart with the configuration I require, and this places the yAxis labels in the correct position.
You can use offset parameter for yAxis.
http://api.highcharts.com/highstock#yAxis.offset
EDIT:
http://jsfiddle.net/Z4zwr/1/
yAxis : {
labels:{
align:'right',
x:-10
},
lineWidth : 1,
offset : 30
},
I've found a solution (jsfiddle): Add labels: { align: 'left' } to your yAxis options, like so:
yAxis: [{
labels: {
align: 'left'
}
}]
This tells Highcharts to align the left end of the labels with the y-axis.
Updated jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/r4wrf63u/