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Highcharts Show legend Pie

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The following example demonstrates Show Legend pie.

In the previous section we already know Highcharts basic configuration syntax. Let's look at the other configurations.

Configuration

series configuration

The type attribute is set series pie, series.type column describes the data type. The default value is "line". 

var series = {
   type: 'pie'
};

plotOptions

plotOptions use plotOptions.pie.showInLegend property to set whether to display the legend. 

var plotOptions = {
   pie: {
      allowPointSelect: true,
      cursor: 'pointer',
      dataLabels: {
         enabled: false           
      },
      showInLegend: true
   }
};

Examples

File name: highcharts_pie_legends.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 = {
       plotBackgroundColor: null,
       plotBorderWidth: null,
       plotShadow: false
   };
   var title = {
      text: 'Browser market shares at a specific website, 2014'   
   };      
   var tooltip = {
      pointFormat: '{series.name}: <b>{point.percentage:.1f}%</b>'
   };
   var plotOptions = {
      pie: {
         allowPointSelect: true,
         cursor: 'pointer',
         dataLabels: {
            enabled: false           
         },
         showInLegend: true
      }
   };
   var series= [{
      type: 'pie',
      name: 'Browser share',
      data: [
         ['Firefox',   45.0],
         ['IE',       26.8],
         {
            name: 'Chrome',
            y: 12.8,
            sliced: true,
            selected: true
         },
         ['Safari',    8.5],
         ['Opera',     6.2],
         ['Others',   0.7]
      ]
   }];     
      
   var json = {};   
   json.chart = chart; 
   json.title = title;     
   json.tooltip = tooltip;  
   json.series = series;
   json.plotOptions = plotOptions;
   $('#container').highcharts(json);  
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

The above example output is:

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