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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

Exploring PlotOptions


plotOptions is a wrapper object for config objects for each series type, which are area, areaspline, bar, column, pie, scatter, spline gauge, and range. These configurations have properties such as plotOptions.line.lineWidth, common to other series types, as well as other configurations such as plotOptions.pie.center, which is only specific to the pie series type. Among the specific series, there is plotOptions.series, which is used for common plotting options shared by the whole series.

The preceding plotOptions can form a chain of precedence between plotOptions.series, plotOptions.{series-type}, and the series configuration. For example, series[x].shadow (where series[x].type is 'pie') has a higher precedence than plotOptions.pie.shadow, which in turn has a higher precedence than plotOptions.series.shadow.

The purpose of this is the chart composed of multiple different series types. For example, a chart with multiple series of columns and a single line series, so...

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