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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

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 around other charts in jQuery Mobile. Back with the pageinit handler code for chart_page, we declared the pointEvt variable, 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 (sport.html) with a bar chart. The URL for the document page is built inside the handler with the selected country...

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