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Learning Highcharts 4

You're reading from   Learning Highcharts 4 Design eye-catching and interactive JavaScript charts for your web page with Highcharts, one of the leading tools in web charting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783287451
Length 478 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Web Charts 2. Highcharts Configurations FREE CHAPTER 3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts 4. Bar and Column Charts 5. Pie Charts 6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts 7. Bubble, Box Plot, and Error Bar Charts 8. Waterfall, Funnel, Pyramid, and Heatmap Charts 9. 3D Charts 10. Highcharts APIs 11. Highcharts Events 12. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile 13. Highcharts and Ext JS 14. Server-side Highcharts 15. Highcharts Online Services and Plugins Index

Revisiting the series config

By now, we should have an idea of what the series property does. In this section, we are going to examine it in more detail.

The series property is an array of series configuration objects that contain data- and series-specific options. It allows us to specify single-series data and multiple-series data. The purpose of series objects is to inform Highcharts of the format of the data and how the data is presented in the chart.

All data values in the chart are specified through the data field. The data field is highly flexible and can take an array in a number of forms, as follows:

  • Numerical values
  • An array with x and y values
  • A point object with properties describing the data point

The first two options have already been examined in the Accessing the axis data type section. In this section, we will explore the third option. Let's use the single-series Nasdaq example and we will specify the series data through a mixture of numerical values and objects:

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