I am using Chart.js to draw a simple line chart. How can I make background color in the area of XAxis Labels and YAxis Labels?
The documentation for Line Chart is here: https://www.chartjs.org/docs/2.7.3/getting-started/?h=line, but I can't find anything about it.
This is the areas I want to apply background color:
Thanks in advance.
CodePudding user response:
You can use the build in backgroundColor
on the scale, this approach only colors the part under the chartArea:
var options = {
type: 'line',
data: {
labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
datasets: [{
label: '# of Votes',
data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
borderColor: 'pink'
},
{
label: '# of Points',
data: [7, 11, 5, 8, 3, 7],
borderColor: 'orange'
}
]
},
options: {
scales: {
y: {
backgroundColor: 'red'
},
x: {
backgroundColor: 'yellow'
}
}
}
}
var ctx = document.getElementById('chartJSContainer').getContext('2d');
new Chart(ctx, options);
<body>
<canvas id="chartJSContainer" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.6.2/chart.js"></script>
</body>
If you really want all the length you will need to write a custom plugin:
var options = {
type: 'line',
data: {
labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
datasets: [{
label: '# of Votes',
data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
borderColor: 'pink'
},
{
label: '# of Points',
data: [7, 11, 5, 8, 3, 7],
borderColor: 'orange'
}
]
},
options: {
plugins: {
scaleBackground: {
x: 'red',
y: 'yellow',
drawXOverY: true
}
}
},
plugins: [{
id: 'scaleBackground',
beforeDraw: (chart, args, opts) => {
const {
scales: {
x,
y
},
ctx,
chartArea: {
left
},
canvas
} = chart;
if (opts.drawXOverY) {
ctx.fillStyle = opts.y || 'transparent';
ctx.fillRect(0, 0, left, canvas.height);
ctx.fillStyle = opts.x || 'transparent';
ctx.fillRect(0, x.top, canvas.width, x.bottom);
} else {
ctx.fillStyle = opts.x || 'transparent';
ctx.fillRect(0, x.top, canvas.width, x.bottom);
ctx.fillStyle = opts.y || 'transparent';
ctx.fillRect(0, 0, left, canvas.height);
}
}
}]
}
var ctx = document.getElementById('chartJSContainer').getContext('2d');
new Chart(ctx, options);
<body>
<canvas id="chartJSContainer" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.6.2/chart.js"></script>
</body>