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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

Stocks' growth chart example


Our next example is to demonstrate the following events:

  • chart.events: addSeries

  • plotOptions.series.events: click, checkboxClick, legendItemClick

  • plotOptions.series.point.events: update, remove

Suppose we want to draft a long term investment portfolio based on the stocks' past growth performance as a reference. The demo contains a chart started with two series, Portfolio and Average growths, and a form to input stock symbols. Basically, we enter a stock symbol in this demo and then a line series of stock growth is inserted into the chart. So we can plot multiple stock yield trends and tweak their proportion in our portfolio to observe how Average and Portfolio lines perform. The following screenshot shows the initial screen:

Plot averaging series from displayed stocks series

Let's query for two stocks and click on the Average legend to enable the series:

As expected, the Average line is plotted in between the two stock lines. Assuming the future growth is similar...

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