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Learning Highcharts

You're reading from   Learning Highcharts Whether you're a novice or an advanced web developer, this practical tutorial will enable you to produce stunning interactive charts using Highcharts. With a foreword by the creator, it's the only guide you'll need to get started.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849519083
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Learning Highcharts
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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. Highcharts APIs 8. Highcharts Events 9. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile 10. Highcharts and Ext JS 11. Running Highcharts on the Server Side Index

Drilling down for data with the point click event


So far we have only fiddled with the top countries ordered by gold medals. Let's see how we can use a Highcharts event to navigate other charts in jQuery Mobile. Back to the pageinit handler code for chart_page, we declared the variable pointEvt, which is a click event handler shared by all the series in gold medal charts. The following code is for the event:

 var pointEvt = {
     events: {
         click: function(evt) {
             document.location.href = './sport.html?country=' 
             // Country code or name
             + encodeURIComponent(this.category) + 
             // Medal color
             '&color=' + this.series.name;
         }
     }
 };

This event is triggered by touching a bar in a column chart or a slice in a pie chart. As a result, it loads a new document page with a bar chart. The URL for the document page is built inside the handler with the selected country code and the medal color as parameters. The this...

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