I recently upgraded from Chart.js v2 to v3. I am drawing realtime line charts with a time-based x-axis that scrolls right as time passes.
In Chart.js v3, as my x-axis tick labels begins to approach the left edge of the chart, it resizes the graph to fit the full label. As shown in the attached image, this creates an empty gap on the left-side of my chart. In Chart.js v2, it would not resize the graph, and would instead allow the label to overflow the canvas.
My x-axis options are:
{
type: 'time',
axis: 'x',
min: minDate.getTime(),
max: maxDate.getTime()
time: {},
ticks: {
minRotation: 45,
maxRotation: 45,
source: 'labels'
}
};
Is there any option to restore the old behavior and allow the tick labels to overflow?
You could format the first tick to be empty string, using ticks.callback
{
type: 'time',
ticks: {
callback: (value, index) => index === 0 ? '' : value
}
}
example in codepen
I was eventually able to get the desired behavior using the afterFit callback.
{
type: 'time',
afterFit: (scaleInstance) => {
scaleInstance.paddingLeft = 0;
scaleInstance.paddingRight = 0;
}
}
Related
I would like to set the color of y-axis tick labels in Chart.js bar and line charts based on the numeric label value. Specifically, I'd like negative values to be rendered red. Additionally rather than displaying "-1", "-2", etc., I'd like to override to display "(1)", "(2)", etc.
I've seen examples for changing tick labels based on index / position, but not conditionally based on the label value. Thanks in advance for any guidance.
You can define the scriptable option scales.x.ticks.color as an array of colors that depend on the corresponding data value each. The following definition for example shows red tick labels for every bar of a value less than 10.
scales: {
x: {
ticks: {
color: data.map(v => v < 10 ? 'red' : undefined)
}
}
}
For further information, consult Tick Configuration from the Chart.js documentation.
Please take a look at below runnable code and see how it works.
const data = [4, 12, 5, 13, 15, 8];
new Chart('myChart', {
type: 'bar',
data: {
labels: ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'],
datasets: [{
label: 'Dataset',
data: data,
}]
},
options: {
responsive: false,
scales: {
x: {
ticks: {
color: data.map(v => v < 10 ? 'red' : undefined)
}
}
}
}
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.9.1/chart.min.js"></script>
<canvas id="myChart" height="180"></canvas>
I previously had a scatter graph in Chart.js 2 with the zoom plugin, in which I just had to add data and change the xAxis ticks' min/max to see a nice animated horizontal scroll from my old xAxis range to my new xAxis range.
For some reason I now use Chart.js 3.24 and the zoom plugin 1.1.1. Now the same graph with nearly the same options became quite ugly when animated:
newly added points e.g. at position (X,Y) have an animation going from (X,0) to (X,Y), instead of appearing directly at (X,Y).
when a point from a dataset is at the same position than a line from another dataset, they move at a different speed.
if many points and line are added, sometimes the lines are only shown after the "scrolling animation" ended.
sometimes a point appear at its correct final position before the "scrolling animation" even started.
The only solution I found was to disable animation when updating my graph, then use window.requestAnimationFrame to manually pan the graph myself with the zoom plugin.
Are you aware of a better/simpler recommended way to achieve this ?
Thanks in advance,
My old Chart.js options:
let zoom_options = {
pan: {
enabled: true,
mode: 'x',
rangeMin: { x: 0, y: null},
rangeMax: { x: null, y: null}
},
zoom: {
enabled: true,
drag: false,
mode: 'x',
rangeMin: { x: 0, y: null },
rangeMax: { x: null, y: null },
speed: 0.1
}
};
var ctx = graph.getContext('2d');
this._chartjs = new Chart(ctx, {
type: 'scatter',
data: {
datasets: []
},
options: {
legend: {
//display: false
},
scales: {
xAxes: [{
type: 'linear',
position: 'bottom',
}]
},
plugins: {
zoom: zoom_options // https://github.com/chartjs/chartjs-plugin-zoom
}
}
});
My old line options :
{
label: name,
showLine: false,
fill:false,
spanGaps: false, // I have some NaN values in my datasets.
backgroundColor: color.points_borders,
borderColor: color.line,
borderWidth:5,
pointRadius:5,
pointBorderWidth:2,
pointBorderColor: color.points_borders,
pointBackgroundColor: color.points,
data: []
}
My old update function:
this._chartjs.options.scales.xAxes[0].ticks.min = min;
this._chartjs.options.scales.xAxes[0].ticks.max = length;
this._chartjs.update();
I'm using chart.js 3.6.1 with VueJS. These are options for particular data I'm having trouble:
hover: {
mode: 'x',
intersect: false
},
scales: {
y: {
// not relevant
},
x: {
type: 'time',
min: minRangeDate.value,
max: maxRangeDate.value,
time: {
displayFormats: {
day: 'dd.MM.',
hour: 'HH:mm',
minute: 'HH:mm',
second: 'HH:mm:ss'
}
},
grid: {
display: true
},
ticks: {
color: 'white'
}
}
plugins: {
zoom: {
pan: {
enabled: true,
mode: 'x',
modifierKey: 'ctrl'
},
zoom: {
mode: 'x',
wheel: {
enabled: true,
speed: 0.2
},
pinch: {
enabled: true
}
},
limits: {
x: {
min: minRangeDate.value,
max: maxRangeDate.value,
minRange: 20000 // minimum zoom to seconds
}
}
}
}
}
When the graph is zoomed everything looks fine like in the picture below:
but when the graph is zoomed out hover is picking multiple points which is not desired behavior, pic below:
And as far as zoom is, the more points hover is picking.
Any idea how to overcome this. I've tried using 'point' and 'nearest' but then I get only one data in the tooltip as it is the default behavior.
Also, using 'index' is not possible because two datasets are not always the same length and it is not logical and desired to compare values by index.
Ok, here is the solution I came up with, followed by this ChartJS issue on GitHub. I've made a filter for tooltip and it looks like this now:
plugins: {
tooltip: {
mode: 'x',
displayColors: false,
intersect: false,
filter: function (tooltipItem, currentIndex, tooltipItems) {
// On zoomed out graph, hovering mouse picks a lot of data for x-axis and displays them all in tooltip.
// This filter returns only first item from each dataSet from hover picked items passed
// to tooltip, so it can be correctly displayed in tooltip for different line charts(datasets)
return tooltipItems[currentIndex].datasetIndex !== tooltipItems[currentIndex - 1]?.datasetIndex
},
.
.
.
}
Hover still selects multiple data, but the tooltip shows only one for each dataset.
With radar charts is it possible to have the order be reversed? For example have 10 being closest to the center and 1 being furthest away from the center for values that are 1 through 10?
To reverse the radar chart as you described:
type: 'radar',
data: {...},
options: {
scale: {
ticks: {
reverse: true,
beginAtZero: false,
min: 1
}
}
}
Refer to the doc Styling and Linear Radial Axis.
I'm trying to position a custom Chart.js tooltip on the middle of two bars. I made a research on the chart.js docs and different posts but didn't found any different approach than position it using the following snippet (I'm using jquery and doing a toggle class to hide/show the tooltip, please focus on the values I'm using to position the tooltip):
function setupTooltipPosition(config) {
const { tooltipElement, tooltipModel } = config;
const leftOffset = this._chart.canvas.offsetLeft;
const topOffset = this._chart.canvas.offsetTop;
tooltipElement.removeClass(tooltipSelectors.hide);
tooltipElement.css('left', `${tooltipModel.caretX - leftOffset}px`);
tooltipElement.css('top', `${tooltipModel.carteY - topOffset}px`);
}
Using this approach on this particular case I got this result:
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I also tried using the x and y values of the tooltipModel , however , it doesn't add more sense of how to put the tooltip in the middle. If you tried to add a custom offset to put it on the middle , it works for just this case, but when you add more data it doesn't work. I can have at most 2 datasets, however, the user can add at most 10 data values that means 10 groups of bars.
The question is: There is a way to put the tooltip in the middle of the group of bars (or a single bar in case the user has just 1 dataset) using the values that Chart.js provide for tooltips? Or in other case, do you know any custom approach to have this tooltip centered?
Thanks!!
You don't specify if 'middle' means on the x- and/or y-axis. But since you wrote:
...on the middle of two bars...
I assume you mean on the x-axis. In this case you need to set the options.tooltips.mode property to index. Below is a working example.
let myChart = new Chart(document.getElementById('myChart'), {
type: 'bar',
data: {
labels: ['x', 'y', 'z'],
datasets: [{
label: '1993',
data: [50, 30, 65],
backgroundColor: '#503291'
}, {
label: '1994',
data: [60, 15, 65],
backgroundColor: '#1bbecd'
}]
},
options: {
tooltips: {
mode: 'index'
},
scales: {
yAxes: [{
ticks: {
beginAtZero: true
}
}],
xAxes: [{
barPercentage: 1
}]
}
}
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.7.2/Chart.min.js"></script>
<canvas id="myChart"></canvas>
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