Chart.js: Bar Chart Click Events - javascript

I've just started working with Chart.js, and I am getting very frustrated very quickly. I have my stacked bar chart working, but I can't get the click "events" to work.
I have found a comment on GitHub by nnnick from Chart.js stating to use the function getBarsAtEvent, even though this function cannot be found in the Chart.js documentation at all (go ahead, do a search for it). The documentation does mention the getElementsAtEvent function of the chart reference, but that is for Line Charts only.
I set an event listener (the right way) on my canvas element:
canv.addEventListener('click', handleClick, false);
...yet in my handleClick function, chart.getBarsAtEvent is undefined!
Now, in the Chart.js document, there is a statement about a different way to register the click event for the bar chart. It is much different than nnnick's comment on GitHub from 2 years ago.
In the Global Chart Defaults you can set an onClick function for your chart. I added an onClick function to my chart configuration, and it did nothing...
So, how the heck do I get the on-click-callback to work for my bar chart?!
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
P.S.: I am not using the master build from GitHub. I tried, but it kept screaming that require is undefined and I was not ready to include CommonJS just so that I could use this chart library. I would rather write my own dang charts. Instead, I downloaded and am using the Standard Build version that I downloaded straight from the link at the top of the documentation page.
EXAMPLE: Here is an example of the configuration I am using:
var chart_config = {
type: 'bar',
data: {
labels: ['One', 'Two', 'Three'],
datasets: [
{
label: 'Dataset 1',
backgroundColor: '#848484',
data: [4, 2, 6]
},
{
label: 'Dataset 2',
backgroundColor: '#848484',
data: [1, 6, 3]
},
{
label: 'Dataset 3',
backgroundColor: '#848484',
data: [7, 5, 2]
}
]
},
options: {
title: {
display: false,
text: 'Stacked Bars'
},
tooltips: {
mode: 'label'
},
responsive: true,
maintainAspectRatio: false,
scales: {
xAxes: [
{
stacked: true
}
],
yAxes: [
{
stacked: true
}
]
},
onClick: handleClick
}
};

I managed to find the answer to my question by looking through the Chart.js source code.
Provided at line 3727 of Chart.js, Standard Build, is the method .getElementAtEvent. This method returns me the "chart element" that was clicked on. There is sufficent data here to determine what data to show in a drill-down view of the dataset clicked on.
On the first index of the array returned by chart.getElementAtEvent is a value _datasetIndex. This value shows the index of the dataset that was clicked on.
The specific bar that was clicked on, I believe, is noted by the value _index. In my example in my question, _index would point to One in chart_config.data.labels.
My handleClick function now looks like this:
function handleClick(evt)
{
var activeElement = chart.getElementAtEvent(evt);
..where chart is the reference of the chart created by chart.js when doing:
chart = new Chart(canv, chart_config);
The specific set of data that was selected by the click can therefore be found as:
chart_config.data.datasets[activeElement[0]._datasetIndex].data[activeElement[0]._index];
And there you have it. I now have a datapoint that I can build a query from to display the data of the bar that was clicked on.
AUGUST 7TH, 2021. UPDATE
There is now a method for what we are looking for. Take a look at here

Hi this is the click event under options which is getting values from x and y-axis
onClick: function(c,i) {
e = i[0];
console.log(e._index)
var x_value = this.data.labels[e._index];
var y_value = this.data.datasets[0].data[e._index];
console.log(x_value);
console.log(y_value);
}

I found this solution at https://github.com/valor-software/ng2-charts/issues/489
public chartClicked(e: any): void {
if (e.active.length > 0) {
const chart = e.active[0]._chart;
const activePoints = chart.getElementAtEvent(e.event);
if ( activePoints.length > 0) {
// get the internal index of slice in pie chart
const clickedElementIndex = activePoints[0]._index;
const label = chart.data.labels[clickedElementIndex];
// get value by index
const value = chart.data.datasets[0].data[clickedElementIndex];
console.log(clickedElementIndex, label, value)
}
}
}

You can use onClick like this.
var worstCells3GBoxChart = new Chart(ctx, {
type: 'bar',
data: {
labels: lbls,
datasets: [{
label: 'Worst Cells by 3G',
data: datas,
backgroundColor: getColorsUptoArray('bg', datas.length),
borderColor: getColorsUptoArray('br', datas.length),
borderWidth: 1
}]
},
options: {
legend: {
display: false
},
scales: {
yAxes: [{
ticks: {
beginAtZero: true
}
}]
},
onClick: function (e) {
debugger;
var activePointLabel = this.getElementsAtEvent(e)[0]._model.label;
alert(activePointLabel);
}
}
});

Chartjs V3.4.1
This is what worked for me in v3, after looking at solutions for older versions:
const onClick = (event, clickedElements) => {
if (clickedElements.length === 0) return
const { dataIndex, raw } = clickedElements[0].element.$context
const barLabel = event.chart.data.labels[dataIndex]
...
}
raw is the value of the clicked bar.
barLabel is the label of the clicked bar.
You need to pass the onClick to the bar chart config:
const barConfig = {
...
options: {
responsive: true,
onClick,
...
}
}

Well done! This seems to return the data value being charted though, which in many cases might be possible to appear more than once, thus making it unclear what was clicked on.
This will return the actual data label of the bar being clicked on. I found this more useful when drilling down into a category.
chart_config.data.labels[activeElement[0]._index]

I was able to make this work in another way.
Might not be supported, but sometimes, I find that neither the label nor the value is adequate to get me the necessary information to populate a drill-through.
So what I did was add a custom set of attributes to the data:
var ctx = document.getElementById("cnvMyChart").getContext("2d");
if(theChart != null) {theChart.destroy();}
theChart = new Chart(ctx, {
type: typ,
data: {
labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
datakeys: ["thefirstone","thesecondone","thethirdone","thefourthone","thefifthone","thesixthone"],
datasets: [{
label: '# of Votes',
data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
...etc
Then when I need to push the drillthrough key into another ajax call, I was able to get it with this:
var theDrillThroughKey = theChart.config.data.datakeys[activePoints[0]._index];
So I'm really not sure that it's appropriate to be adding custom elements into the data for the Chart, but it's working so far in Chrome, IE and Firefox. I needed to be able to put more information into the drillthrough than I really wanted displayed.
Example of the full thing: https://wa.rrdsb.com/chartExamples
Thoughts?

I had the same problem with multiple datasets, and used this workaround:
var clickOnChart = function(dataIndex){
...
}
var lastHoveredIndex = null;
var chart_options = {
...
tooltips: {
...
callbacks: {
label: function(tooltipItem, chart) {
var index = tooltipItem.datasetIndex;
var value = chart.datasets[index].data[0];
var label = chart.datasets[index].label;
lastHoveredIndex = index;
return value + "€";
}
}
},
onClick:function(e, items){
if ( items.length == 0 ) return; //Clicked outside any bar.
clickOnChart(lastHoveredIndex);
}
}

Let's say that you declared a chart using a method like so:
window.myBar = new Chart({chart_name}, {
type: xxx,
data: xxx,
events: ["click"],
options: {
...
}
});
A good way of declaring onclick events would involve listening for the canvas click, like so:
({chart_name}.canvas).onclick = function(evt) {
var activePoints = myBar.getElementsAtEvent(evt);
// let's say you wanted to perform different actions based on label selected
if (activePoints[0]._model.label == "label you are looking for") { ... }
}

In the chart options for Chart.js v3.5.1 which is latest
Check below sample code
let enterpriseChartOptions = {
responsive:true,
maintainAspectRatio: false,
onClick: (c,i) => {
console.log('Get the underlying label for click,', c.chart.config._config.data.labels[i[0].index]);
},
plugins: {
title:{
text:'Enterprise Dashboard (Health Status of 10 stores) updated every 30 minutes',
fontSize:20
},
},
scales: {
x: {
display: true,
type: 'category',
position: 'right',
ticks: {
padding: 8,
},
},
y: {
display: true,
ticks: {
callback: function(val, index) {
// Show the label
return val < 1 ? "All good" : (val < 2 && val >=1) ? "Warning": val === 2 ? "Critical" : "";
},
//color: 'red',
stepSize: 1,
padding: 8
}
}
},
layout: {
padding: {
left: 20,
right: 20,
top: 25,
bottom: 0
}
},
};

var employeeDetailsCtx = document.getElementById("employee-details").getContext("2d");
var employee_details_data = {
labels: ["Late Present", "On Leave", "Training", "Tour"],
datasets: [{
label: "Officer",
backgroundColor: "#5A8DEE",
data: [
...
]
}, {
label: "Staff",
backgroundColor: "#4BC0C0",
data: [
...
]
}]
};
var myoption = {
tooltips: {
enabled: true
},
hover: {
animationDuration: 1
},
onClick: function (evt, i) {
var activePoint = employeeDetailsBarChart.getElementAtEvent(evt)[0];
var data = activePoint._chart.data;
var datasetIndex = activePoint._datasetIndex;
var label = data.datasets[datasetIndex].label;
var value = data.datasets[datasetIndex].data[activePoint._index];
e = i[0];
var x_value = this.data.labels[e._index];
console.log(x_value)
console.log(label)
console.log(value)
},
animation: {
duration: 1,
onComplete: function () {
var chartInstance = this.chart,
ctx = chartInstance.ctx;
ctx.textAlign = 'center';
ctx.fillStyle = "rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)";
ctx.textBaseline = 'bottom';
this.data.datasets.forEach(function (dataset, i) {
var meta = chartInstance.controller.getDatasetMeta(i);
meta.data.forEach(function (bar, index) {
var data = dataset.data[index];
ctx.fillText(data, bar._model.x, bar._model.y - 5);
});
});
}
}
};
var employeeDetailsBarChart = new Chart(employeeDetailsCtx, {
type: 'bar',
data: employee_details_data,
options: myoption
});

Related

Equivalent of $.fn. of jQuery in Vanilla JS

Last few days I've been trying to convert this code to pure JS, but no luck until now...
This code basically starts a new Chart.JS instance when called via jQuery object.
(function ($) {
$.fn.createChartLine = function (labels, datasets, options) {
var settings = $.extend({}, $.fn.createChartLine.defaults, options);
this.each(function () {
let ctx = $(this);
new Chart(ctx, {
type: 'line',
data: {
labels: labels,
datasets: datasets
},
options: {
scales: {
y: {
title: {
display: true,
text: settings.labelString
},
beginAtZero: true
}
},
plugins: {
legend: {
display: settings.display_legend,
position: settings.legend_position,
labels: {
usePointStyle: settings.legend_pointStyle
}
}
}
}
});
});
};
$.fn.createChartLine.defaults = {
display_legend: true,
legend_position: 'top',
legend_pointStyle: true,
labelString: 'Clicks'
};
})(jQuery);
The initialization of a new chartline using the code above:
$("#chart1").createChartLine(['1', '2', '3'], [{
label: 'Clicks',
backgroundColor: Chart.helpers.color('#007bff').alpha(0.75).rgbString(),
borderColor: '#007bff',
data: [34, 56, 28],
borderWidth: 2,
tension: 0.4
}], {display_legend: false});
I tried thousands of ways to remove jQuery from it, but no luck. The intention is to get rid of jQuery in some pages, but this script is essential because with it I can create many Chart.JS instances in same page without needing repeating that amount of code.
I'm aiming to get something like this:
document.getElementById('chart1').createChartLine(...);
Is it possible?
This assumes you are using a version of ChartJS that accepts HTMLCanvasElement and other non-jQuery wrapped Elements to the new Chart() constructor.
You shouldn't extend the prototype of native elements, instead you should create a new function that gets the element(s) passed in.
// Instead of
document.getElementById('chart1').createChartLine(...);
// You'll want
createChartLine(document.getElementById('chart1'), ...);
or something similar.
I'd actually not pass in the element, but rather a selector, since that most closely matches how the jQuery plugin is working.
function createChartLine(selector, labels, datasets, options = {}) {
const settings = Object.assign(
{},
{
display_legend: true,
legend_position: "top",
legend_pointStyle: true,
labelString: "Clicks",
},
options
);
const elements = document.querySelectorAll(selector);
const charts = [];
for (let i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
const element = elements[i];
const newChart = new Chart(element, {
type: "line",
data: {
labels: labels,
datasets: datasets,
},
options: {
scales: {
y: {
title: {
display: true,
text: settings.labelString,
},
beginAtZero: true,
},
},
plugins: {
legend: {
display: settings.display_legend,
position: settings.legend_position,
labels: {
usePointStyle: settings.legend_pointStyle,
},
},
},
},
});
charts.push(newChart);
}
return charts;
}
Here is how you'd call the function.
createChartLine(
"#chart1", // This is the new argument, the selector of the element you are initializing
["1", "2", "3"],
[
{
label: "Clicks",
backgroundColor: Chart.helpers.color("#007bff").alpha(0.75).rgbString(),
borderColor: "#007bff",
data: [34, 56, 28],
borderWidth: 2,
tension: 0.4,
},
],
{ display_legend: false }
);

Getting the closest intersection to a click on Chart.js

I'm using chart.js to make a radar chart that the user should be able to interact on their own. The idea is that if the user clicks on the red spot, the app should know whether the green spot is the closest intersection of ticks and angle lines, so that it can change the dataset value at index 1 (corresponding to B) from 2 (corresponding to mid-low) to 4 (mid-high).
And it's set up like this:
const chartData = {
labels: ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'],
datasets: [{
fill: true,
backgroundColor: 'rgba(6,211,248,0.5)',
borderColor: 'rgb(6,211,248)',
data: mockData.presetValues.a,
}]
};
const chartConfig = {
type: 'radar',
data: chartData,
options: {
elements: {
line: {
borderWidth: 3
},
},
scales: {
r: {
min: 0,
max: 5,
ticks: {
stepSize: 1,
callback: function (value) {
return ['none', 'low', 'mid-low', 'mid', 'mid-high', 'high'][value]
}
},
grid: {
circular: true,
lineWidth: 5
},
angleLines: {
color: 'black',
}
}
},
plugins: {
legend: {
display: false
}
},
events: ['click']
}
};
const actionChart = new Chart(
canvas,
chartConfig
);
Then I have a listener set up for it like so:
canvas.addEventListener('click', handleChartClick)
And finally I have a handler like this, which is where my problem is:
function handleChartClick(ev) {
let clickPosition = Chart.helpers.getRelativePosition(ev, actionChart);
console.log(clickPosition);
//Find closest tick to click and change values in dataset before refresh
}
After hours of scouring the documentation and this site, I can not find a way of correlating the position of the click that I receive from the getRelativePosition method with the position of the intersections between the angle lines and the ticks. Once I have those two pieces of information I can modify the dataset and refresh, but I'd greatly appreciate if anyone could help me figure out how to get the closest intersection to the click.
You could use onClick option of chart in order to catch click event (instead of adding a listener to the canvas). In this way the passed event is already normalized.
The callback could be something like that, in order to have the closest tick:
options: {
...
onClick(event, elements, chart) {
const scale = chart.scales.r;
const posY = Math.abs(scale.getDecimalForPixel(event.y) - 0.5);
const posX = Math.abs(scale.getDecimalForPixel(event.x) - 0.5);
const scalePosition = Math.max(posY, posX);
const value = Math.round(scalePosition * 10);
console.log(['none', 'low', 'mid-low', 'mid', 'mid-high', 'high'][value]); // shows value
},
...

Unable to display point values without mouse hover

Herewith I used JavaScript line chart within Laravel framework. Mouse hover tool tip to display point values working perfectly with label:function(...). I need to display only y-axis value on every point at chart on create (Without mouse hovering). To perform this I used drawDatasetPointsLabels() method from How to display Line Chart dataset point labels with Chart.js? and call it on chart options. But unfortunately it is not working. Below is the code.
chart.blade
monthlabels={.......};
salesqty = {......};
stockqty = {......};
document.getElementById("history_canvas_holder").innerHTML = ' ';
document.getElementById("history_canvas_holder").innerHTML = '<canvas id="historyChart" width="500" height="350"></canvas>';
var ctx = document.getElementById("historyChart").getContext('2d');
var myLineChart = new Chart(ctx,
{
type: 'line',
data:
{
labels: monthlabels,
datasets: [{
label: 'Sales',
data: salesqty,
borderColor: [
'rgba(255,99,132,1)'
],
borderWidth: 2
},
{
label: 'Stock',
data: stockqty,
borderColor: [
'rgba(0,161,232)'
],
borderWidth: 2
}
]
},
options: {
tooltips: {
callbacks: {
label: function(tooltipItem, data) {
var label = data.datasets[tooltipItem.datasetIndex].label || '';
if (label) {
label += ': ';
}
label += Math.round(tooltipItem.yLabel * 100) / 100;
return label;
},
onAnimationProgress: function() { drawDatasetPointsLabels(ctx) },
onAnimationComplete: function() { drawDatasetPointsLabels(ctx) }
}
}
}
});
function drawDatasetPointsLabels(ctx) {
ctx.font = '.9rem "ABCD",sans-serif';
ctx.fillStyle = '#AAA';
ctx.textAlign="center";
$(historyChart.datasets).each(function(idx,dataset){
$(dataset.points).each(function(pdx,pointinfo){
if ( pointinfo.value !== null ) {
ctx.fillText(pointinfo.value,pointinfo.x,pointinfo.y - 15);
}
});
});
}
In the type of v2.5.0
`options: {
tooltips: {
enabled: false
}
}`
or
`tooltips :{
custom : function(tooltipModel) {
tooltipModel.opacity = 0;
}
}`
type of v2.1.4
`Chart.defaults.global.tooltips.enabled = false;`
people said those ways are work, but not in all charts type.

Chart.js not showing dynamically populated data

I was having some trouble when trying to dynamically populate bar chart in chart.js. I have two arrays, one for label, one for its price and both of them are already populated with the sorted data from firebase. Here is my code:
var ctx = document.getElementById('brandChart').getContext("2d");
var data = {
labels: [],
datasets: [{
data: [],
backgroundColor: [
"#424242",
]
}]
};
var options = {
layout: {
padding: {
top: 5
}
},
responsive: true,
legend: {
display: true,
position: 'bottom',
// disable legend onclick remove slice
onClick: null
},
animation: {
animateScale: true,
animateRotate: true
},
};
var opt = {
type: "horizontalBar",
data: data,
options: options
};
if (brandChart) brandChart.destroy();
brandChart = new Chart(ctx, opt);
// dynamically populate chart
for(var i = 0; i < labelData.length; i++){
brandChart.config.data.labels.push(labelData[i]);
}
for(var i = 0; i < priceData.length; i++){
brandChart.config.data.datasets[0].data.push(priceData[i]);
}
brandChart.update();
I managed to show all of them in bar chart, however, the result as such:
It is kind of squeeze between each labels if there are too many categories. Also, only the first bar has the color & the legends shown undefined. Any ideas how to solve these?
ɪꜱꜱᴜᴇ #1 - ꜱᴏʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴ
Add a callback for y-axis ticks, in your chart options :
options: {
scales: {
yAxes: [{
ticks: {
callback: function(t, i) {
if (!(i % 2)) return t;
}
}
}]
},
...
}
this will only show every other label on y-axis.
ɪꜱꜱᴜᴇ #2 - ꜱᴏʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴ
This is because, you have only one color in your backgroundColor array. If you want different color for each bar, then you need to populate this array with multiple color values.
Edit: as it seems form your updated question, you already kind of got the idea.
ɪꜱꜱᴜᴇ #3 - ꜱᴏʟᴜᴛɪᴏɴ
Define the label property for your dataset , like so :
datasets: [{
label: 'Legend Title', //<- define this
data: [],
backgroundColor: ["#424242", ]
}]

Hide Y-axis labels when data is not displayed in Chart.js

I have a Chart.js bar graph displaying two sets of data: Total SQL Queries and Slow SQL Queries. I have Y-axis labels for each respective set of data. The graph can be seen below:
When I toggle one of the sets of data to not display, the corresponding Y-axis labels still display. When interpreting the graph, this is a bit confusing. As seen below:
My question: How can I hide the Y-axis labels of any set of data that is currently not being displayed?
This is how I currently have my chart set up:
<canvas id="SQLPerformanceChart" minHeight="400"></canvas>
<script type="text/javascript">
...
var data = {
labels: labelArray,
datasets: [{
label: "Total SQL Queries",
fill: false,
borderWidth: 1,
borderColor: "green",
backgroundColor: "rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.3)",
yAxisID: "y-axis-0",
data: totalQueriesArray
}, {
label: "Slow SQL Queries",
fill: false,
borderWidth: 1,
borderColor: "orange",
backgroundColor: "rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.3)",
yAxisID: "y-axis-1",
data: slowQueriesArray,
}]
};
var options = {
animation: false,
scales: {
yAxes: [{
position: "left",
ticks: {
beginAtZero: true
},
scaleLabel: {
display: true,
labelString: 'Total SQL Queries'
},
id: "y-axis-0"
}, {
position: "right",
ticks: {
beginAtZero: true
},
scaleLabel: {
display: true,
labelString: 'Slow SQL Queries'
},
id: "y-axis-1"
}]
},
tooltips: {
enabled: true,
mode: 'single',
callbacks: {
title: function(tooltipItem, data) {
return data.label;
},
beforeLabel: function(tooltipItem, data) {
if (tooltipItem.index == 24) {
return data.labels[tooltipItem.index] + " - Now";
} else {
return data.labels[tooltipItem.index] + " - " + data.labels[(tooltipItem.index) + 1];
}
}
}
}
}
var ctx = document.getElementById("SQLPerformanceChart");
var SQLPerformanceChart = new Chart(ctx, {
type: 'bar',
data: data,
options: options
});
</script>
You can add a callback function to legends onClick:
var options = {
animation: false,
scales: {
yAxes: [{
position: "left",
ticks: {
beginAtZero: true
},
scaleLabel: {
display: true,
labelString: 'Total SQL Queries'
},
id: "y-axis-0"
}, {
position: "right",
ticks: {
beginAtZero: true
},
scaleLabel: {
display: true,
labelString: 'Slow SQL Queries'
},
id: "y-axis-1"
}]
},
legend: {
onClick: function(event, legendItem) {
//get the index of the clicked legend
var index = legendItem.datasetIndex;
//toggle chosen dataset's visibility
SQLPerformanceChart.data.datasets[index].hidden =
!SQLPerformanceChart.data.datasets[index].hidden;
//toggle the related labels' visibility
SQLPerformanceChart.options.scales.yAxes[index].display =
!SQLPerformanceChart.options.scales.yAxes[index].display;
SQLPerformanceChart.update();
}
}
}
This solution applies if you are using angular-chartjs, and if you want to apply this behaviour to all displayed charts.
If you want to skip to the code, check this fiddlejs.
You can also check this other fiddlejs to check the default Angular-Chartjs behaviour.
Step by step:
I use the first chart example in angular-chart.js, so this will be the final result after clicking:
<div ng-app="app" ng-controller="MainController as mainCtrl">
<canvas id="line" class="chart chart-line" chart-data="data"
chart-labels="labels" chart-series="series" chart-options="options"
chart-dataset-override="datasetOverride" chart-click="onClick">
</canvas>
</div>
Replace the handler of the global Chart:
Chart.defaults.global.legend.onClick = function (e, legendItem) {
var idx = legendItem.datasetIndex;
// IMPORTANT charts will be created in the second and third step
var chart = charts[e.srcElement.id];
chart.options.scales.yAxes[idx].display = !chart.options.scales.yAxes[idx].display;
var meta = chart.getDatasetMeta(idx);
// See controller.isDatasetVisible comment
meta.hidden = meta.hidden === null ? !chart.data.datasets[idx].hidden : null;
chart.update();
};
Create a global variable charts so we can get access each of the charts with the canvas id:
var charts = {};
Fill up the charts variables using the chart-create event:
angular.module("app", ["chart.js"]).controller("MainController", function ($scope) {
$scope.$on('chart-create', function (event, chart) {
charts[chart.chart.canvas.id] = chart;
});
$scope.labels = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July"];
$scope.series = ['Series A', 'Series B'];
$scope.data = [...
I wish there would be a better way of getting a chart from the canvas id, but as far as I know this is the suggested way by the developers.
This solution applies if you are using ng2-charts with chart.js and Angular 7^ and if you want to apply this behavior to all displayed charts.
import Chart from chart.js
Chart.defaults.global.legend.onClick = function (e: MouseEvent, chartLegendLabelItem: ChartLegendLabelItem) {
const idx: number = chartLegendLabelItem.datasetIndex;
const chart = this.chart;
chart.options.scales.yAxes[idx].display = !chart.options.scales.yAxes[idx].display;
const meta = chart.getDatasetMeta(idx);
meta.hidden = meta.hidden === null ? !chart.data.datasets[idx].hidden : null;
chart.update();
};
or for local configuration
legend: <ChartLegendOptions>{
onClick: function (e: MouseEvent, chartLegendLabelItem:ChartLegendLabelItem) {
const idx: number = chartLegendLabelItem.datasetIndex;
const chart = this.chart;
chart.options.scales.yAxes[idx].display =
!chart.options.scales.yAxes[idx].display;
const meta = chart.getDatasetMeta(idx);
meta.hidden = meta.hidden === null ?
!chart.data.datasets[idx].hidden : null;
chart.update();
}
}
I came along this problem using v3.8.0, none of the obove worked for me.
This code works for me.
Note I'm storing all my chart instances in a Map because I have multiple charts on the same page.
var instances = new Map();
When createing the incances I put them there.
and now the hiding of the y axis label and data on legend click:
onClick: function (event, legendItem) {
var instance = instances.get(event.chart.id);
var meta = instance.getDatasetMeta(legendItem.datasetIndex);
var newValue = !meta.yScale.options.display;
meta.hidden = meta.yScale.options.display;
meta.yScale.options.display = newValue;
instance.update();
}

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