Exploring PlotOptions
The plotOptions
object is a wrapper object for config objects for each series type supported in Highcharts. These configurations have properties such as plotOptions.line.lineWidth
, common to other series types, as well as other configurations such as plotOptions.pie.center
that 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
object 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 that the chart is composed of multiple different series types. For example, in a chart with multiple series of columns and a single line series, the common properties between...