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Legend option destroys pie chart in Chart.js

My Chart.js pie is working fine, but when I add the legend option, it disappears, much to my dismay. Other options like title and animation work pretty well, only the legend options ruins the pie. I have looked at the code thoroughly, but can't figure out what I'm not doing right. Below is my code:
if ( $('#broadsheet_piechart_sample').length ) {
var ctx = document.getElementById("broadsheet_piechart_sample");
var data = {
datasets: [{
data: [10, 20, 30, 40, 50],
backgroundColor: ['#455C73', '#9B59B6', '#BDC3C7', '#26B99A', '#3498DB'],
}],
labels: ['Dark Gray', 'Purple', 'Gray', 'Green', 'Blue']
};
//options
var options = {
title: {
display: true,
position: "top",
text: "Test Pie Chart",
fontSize: 18,
fontColor: "#111"
},
animation: {
duration: 0
},
legend: {
display: true,
position: "bottom",
labels: {
fontColor: "#333",
fontSize: 16
}
}
};
var broadsheet_piechart_sample = new Chart(ctx, {
data: data,
type: 'pie',
options: options
});
}

You are may using an old version which can cause this issue.
Please upgrade to the latest CharJs version (2.7.3).
Here is what I did for example : example Just exactly what you did.

Highcharts producing bizarre stroke seemingly at random on pie chart labels

I'm modifying the font on the chart labels but there seems to be a stroke applied to some of the labels and not to others.
I have broken the chart down to a very minimal version and the stroke is still there. What is causing the stroke to show up and how can it be turned off for all labels?
$(function () {
Highcharts.theme = {
colors: [
'#94B8D2',
'#2a71a5',
'#A699B9',
'#4D3474',
'#CDAED1',
'#82368C',
'#AAAEB2',
'#565E65',
'#EF92A5',
'#DF264C',
'#FFBA9D',
'#FF763B',
'#95FEDB',
'#27CAE1',
'#EAEAA1',
'#D5D644',
]
};
// Apply the theme
Highcharts.setOptions(Highcharts.theme);
var donutData = [
['K01',6243],
['K05',1788],
['K07',8745],
['K08',16018],
['K12',11647],
['K18',0],
['K22',4482],
['K23',5166],
['K24',2922],
['K25',2103],
['K99',8410],
];
Highcharts.chart('StrokeProblem', {
title: {
text: "Bizarre Label Strokes",
align: 'center',
verticalAlign: 'middle',
},
series: [{
type: 'pie',
name: 'Stroke',
innerSize: '75%',
data: donutData,
}],
plotOptions: {
pie: {
dataLabels: {
style: { fontSize: '17px' },
formatter: function(label){
label.color = this.color;
return this.point.name;
},
}
}
},
});
});
Here is the relevant JSFiddle.

Highcharts automatically adds a text shadow to labels with a light font color. You can disable it with the textOutline property:
dataLabels: {
style: {
fontSize: '17px',
textOutline: false
},
}

How do I remove padding from both sides of Highcharts area category chart?

There's too much padding on either side of the area chart and minPadding/maxPadding doesn't work with categories.
I want the area chart to start and end without any padding.
My code is below:
http://jsfiddle.net/nx4xeb4k/1/
$('#container').highcharts({
chart: {
type: 'area',
inverted: false
},
title: {
text: 'Too Much Padding On Either Side'
},
plotOptions: {
series: {
fillOpacity: 0.1
}
},
xAxis: {
type: 'category'
},
yAxis: {
title: {
text: 'Data Point'
}
},
legend: {
enabled: false
},
tooltip: {
pointFormat: '<b>{point.y}</b> points'
},
series: [{
name: 'Visits',
data: [
["Monday", 58],
["Tuesday", 65],
["Wednesday", 55],
["Thursday", 44],
["Friday", 56],
["Saturday", 65],
["Sunday", 69]
],
dataLabels: {
enabled: false,
rotation: -90,
color: '#FFFFFF',
align: 'right',
format: '{point.y:.1f}',
y: 10,
style: {
fontSize: '14px',
fontFamily: 'Verdana, sans-serif'
}
}
}]
});

A colleague of mine solved this very situation for some of my charts. Their solution was to remove the type: 'category' from the x-axis (making it a linear type instead) and instead replace the axis labels from an array.
Here's what's been changed:
First, I added an array of your x-axis labels.
var categoryLabels = ["Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday",
"Saturday","Sunday"];
Next, I updated your series values to hold only the y-axis values.
series: [{
name: 'Visits',
data: [58, 65, 55, 44, 56, 65, 69],
Then, for your x-axis, I included a formatter function to pull in the labels from the array as substitutes for the default linear values.
xAxis: {
labels: {
formatter: function(){
return categoryLabels[this.value];
}
}
},
Lastly, I updated the tooltip options to show the values from the labels array.
tooltip: {
formatter: function () {
return categoryLabels[this.x] + ': ' + Highcharts.numberFormat(this.y,0);
}
},
I updated your fiddle with this tweaks: http://jsfiddle.net/brightmatrix/nx4xeb4k/4/
I hope you'll find this solution as useful as I have!

According to API, the default value of highcharts.xAxis.tickmarkPlacement is between and this is why the point of each category drops between two ticks on xAxis in your chart.
By setting highcharts.xAxis.tickmarkPlacement to on and playing around the value of highcharts.xAxis.min and highcharts.xAxis.max like this, you should be able to achieve what you want.

You can declare the min / max values to fix the problem.
var categoryLabels = ["Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday","Sunday"];
//....
xAxis: {
min: 0.49,
max: categoryLabels.length - 1.49,
categories: categoryLabels,
type: 'category'
},
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/fo04m7k7/

How to change the flot bar fill and border color?

I have created a user graph for my codeigniter project. The bar fill is set at the default. But I would like the BARS to change it so it looks like the bars on this image: http://www.riwakawebsitedesigns.com/offsite/images/userchart.PNG
I echo the data from my controller. But just would like to know how to make bars and bar-border look like the image above.
When I add these shadowSize: 0, colors: ['#9FD5F1', '#1065D2'], to the series bar it does not work.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
var data = <?php echo $data;?>;
$.plot($("#chart-user"), [data], {
series: {
bars: {
shadowSize: 0,
show: true,
fill: true,
//fillColor: '#9FD5F1'
},
grid: {
backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF',
hoverable: true
}
}
});
});
</script>

I had to do this below to make it work added color below series
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
var data = <?php echo $data;?>;
$.plot($("#chart-user"), [data], {
series: {
color: '#1065D2',
bars: {
shadowSize: 0,
show: true,
fill: true,
},
grid: {
backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF',
hoverable: true
}
}
});
});
</script>

I finally found an answer to this. For Bars you specify the fillColor for each series. Then the global Series Colors. The Bar will be filled with the fillColor and use the Colors for the lines.
The below example is using 2 different data arrays d1 (Absent Time), d2 (Time Worked) and stacks for each bar for different time spans
E.g:
var chartOptions = {
xaxis: {
min: 0,
max: 100,
ticks: [[25, '25%'], [50, '50%'], [75, '75%'], [100, '100%']]
},
yaxis: {
ticks: [[1, 'Today'], [2, 'Yesterday'], [3, 'This Week'],[4, 'Last Week']],
position: 'right',
font: { size: 12 }
},
series: {
stack : true,
bars: {
horizontal: true,
show: true
}
},
colors: ['rgb(52,95,14)', 'rgb(108,105,19)'],
};
$.plot($('#placeHolder'), [{ data:d1, bars:{fillColor: 'rgb(194, 238, 155)', fill: 0.9}}, { data:d2, bars:{fillColor: 'rgb(241, 239, 177)', fill: 0.9}}], chartOptions);
The displayed chart

Double donut-like chart with negative values

I've been asked to do this kind of graph (40,9% and 16,4% are examples, they should indicate something like -6% and 9%):
Any idea on how I can get that kind of result, using a javascript library, if possible (but it is not a must) Highcharts?
Thanks

It's possible with HighCharts, Documentation
e.g.
$(function () {
data = [{
valSecond: 25,
valFirst: 62.5
}];
// Build the data arrays
var secondData = [];
var firstData = [];
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
// add second data
secondData.push({
name: "Second",
y: data[i].valSecond,
color: "#00FF00"
});
// add first data
firstData.push({
name: "First",
y: data[i].valFirst,
color:'#FF0000'
});
}
// Create the chart
$('#container').highcharts({
chart: {
type: 'pie'
},
title: {
text: ''
},
plotOptions: {
pie: {
animation: false,
shadow: false,
center: ['50%', '50%']
}
},
tooltip: {
valueSuffix: '%'
},
series: [{
name: 'second',
data: secondData,
size: '30%',
startAngle: 270,
endAngle: 360,
innerSize: '20%'
}, {
name: 'first',
color:'#FFFFFF',
data: firstData,
size: '80%',
startAngle: 0,
endAngle: 225,
innerSize: '60%',
}]
});
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.highcharts.com/modules/exporting.js"></script>
<div id="container" style="width: 600px; height: 400px; margin: 0 auto"></div>
Jsfiddle

In the highcharts you can adapt donut chart http://www.highcharts.com/demo/pie-donut, remove connectors, set useHTML for dataLabels and rotate by css / rotation SVG element. Missing elements can by added by renderer.