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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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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

Configuration structure

In the Highcharts configuration object, the components at the top level represent the skeleton structure of a chart. The following is a list of the major components that are covered in this chapter:

  • chart: This has configurations for the top-level chart properties such as layouts, dimensions, events, animations, and user interactions
  • series: This is an array of series objects (consisting of data and specific options) for single and multiple series, where the series data can be specified in a number of ways
  • xAxis/yAxis/zAxis: This has configurations for all the axis properties such as labels, styles, range, intervals, plotlines, plot bands, and backgrounds
  • tooltip: This has the layout and format style configurations for the series data tool tips
  • drilldown: This has configurations for drilldown series and the ID field associated with the main series
  • title/subtitle: This has the layout and style configurations for the chart title and subtitle
  • legend: This has the layout and...
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