How to show legend in highcharts?
Turn the legend on or off. There is also a series-specific option, showInLegend, which can hide the series from the legend. For some series types, this is false by default, so it must be set to true to display the series legend.
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What is legend in Highcharts?
The legend displays the series on a chart with a predefined symbol and the name of the series. Series can be disabled and enabled from the legend.
How is the legend displayed on a pie chart?
Click on the chart and then on the Chart Design tab. Click Add Chart Element > Legend. To change the position of the legend, choose Right, Top, Left, or Bottom. To change the format of the legend, click More Legend Options, and then make the format changes you want.
How do I hide a series in Legend?
Right-click on the series you want to hide and select Series Properties. Click Legend. Select the Do not show this series in a legend option.
How are the category name and percentage data labels displayed?
To display percentage values as labels on a pie chart On the design surface, right-click the pie chart and select Show Data Labels. The data labels should appear within each slice on the pie chart. On the design surface, right-click the labels and select Series Label Properties.
How to get tooltip on hover over Highcharts legend?
There is another opportunity to get tooltips by hovering over the Highcharts legend. You just need to enable useHTML for the legend and override the labelFormatter function; this function should return the label text enclosed in the “span” tag.
How to show legend above tooltip with usehtml?
If “useHTML: true” is used, the legend is displayed on top of the tooltip when it overlaps with the tooltip. The documentation says: “The downsides are that it will always be placed on top of the rest of the SVG content, and it won’t render the same way in exported graphics.”
How do you remove items from the legend?
I would like the user to know that they can remove items from the legend simply by clicking on them. For some this may be intuitive, but others may not know they can do it. I’d like to let users know when they get past the legend item so they can then click to remove it. I am using GWT wrapper class for tall charts. Thanks.