Highcharts basic bar chart
The following example illustrates the basic bar chart.
In the previous section we already know Highcharts basic configuration syntax. Let's look at the other configurations.
Configuration
chart configuration
Setting the chart type property bar, chart.type describes the chart type. The default value is "line".
var chart = {
type: 'bar'
};
Examples
File name: highcharts_bar_basic.htm
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Highcharts 教程 | 本教程(w3big.com)</title>
<script src="http://apps.bdimg.com/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container" style="width: 550px; height: 400px; margin: 0 auto"></div>
<script language="JavaScript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var chart = {
type: 'bar'
};
var title = {
text: 'Historic World Population by Region'
};
var subtitle = {
text: 'Source: Wikipedia.org'
};
var xAxis = {
categories: ['Africa', 'America', 'Asia', 'Europe', 'Oceania'],
title: {
text: null
}
};
var yAxis = {
min: 0,
title: {
text: 'Population (millions)',
align: 'high'
},
labels: {
overflow: 'justify'
}
};
var tooltip = {
valueSuffix: ' millions'
};
var plotOptions = {
bar: {
dataLabels: {
enabled: true
}
}
};
var legend = {
layout: 'vertical',
align: 'right',
verticalAlign: 'top',
x: -40,
y: 100,
floating: true,
borderWidth: 1,
backgroundColor: ((Highcharts.theme && Highcharts.theme.legendBackgroundColor) || '#FFFFFF'),
shadow: true
};
var credits = {
enabled: false
};
var series= [{
name: 'Year 1800',
data: [107, 31, 635, 203, 2]
}, {
name: 'Year 1900',
data: [133, 156, 947, 408, 6]
}, {
name: 'Year 2008',
data: [973, 914, 4054, 732, 34]
}
];
var json = {};
json.chart = chart;
json.title = title;
json.subtitle = subtitle;
json.tooltip = tooltip;
json.xAxis = xAxis;
json.yAxis = yAxis;
json.series = series;
json.plotOptions = plotOptions;
json.legend = legend;
json.credits = credits;
$('#container').highcharts(json);
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
The above example output is: