Overview
A line chart that is rendered within the browser using SVG or VML. Displays tooltips when hovering over points.
Examples
Curving the Lines
You can smooth the lines by setting the curveType
option to function
:
The code to generate this chart is below. Note the use of the curveType: function
option:
<html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> google.charts.load('current', {'packages':['corechart']}); google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart); function drawChart() { var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([ ['Year', 'Sales', 'Expenses'], ['2004', 1000, 400], ['2005', 1170, 460], ['2006', 660, 1120], ['2007', 1030, 540] ]); var options = { title: 'Company Performance', curveType: 'function', legend: { position: 'bottom' } }; var chart = new google.visualization.LineChart(document.getElementById('curve_chart')); chart.draw(data, options); } </script> </head> <body> <div id="curve_chart" style="width: 900px; height: 500px"></div> </body> </html>
Creating Material Line Charts
In 2014, Google announced guidelines intended to support a common look and feel across its properties and apps (such as Android apps) that run on Google platforms. We call this effort Material Design. We'll be providing "Material" versions of all our core charts; you're welcome to use them if you like how they look.
Creating a Material Line Chart is similar to creating what we'll now call a "Classic" Line Chart. You load the Google Visualization API (although with the 'line'
package instead of the 'corechart'
package), define your datatable, and then create an object (but of class google.charts.Line
instead of google.visualization.LineChart
).
Note: Material Charts will not work in old versions of Internet Explorer. (IE8 and earlier versions don't support SVG, which Material Charts require.)
Material Line Charts have many small improvements over Classic Line Charts, including an improved color palette, rounded corners, clearer label formatting, tighter default spacing between series, softer gridlines, and titles (and the addition of subtitles).
google.charts.load('current', {'packages':['line']}); google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart); function drawChart() { var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(); data.addColumn('number', 'Day'); data.addColumn('number', 'Guardians of the Galaxy'); data.addColumn('number', 'The Avengers'); data.addColumn('number', 'Transformers: Age of Extinction'); data.addRows([ [1, 37.8, 80.8, 41.8], [2, 30.9, 69.5, 32.4], [3, 25.4, 57, 25.7], [4, 11.7, 18.8, 10.5], [5, 11.9, 17.6, 10.4], [6, 8.8, 13.6, 7.7], [7, 7.6, 12.3, 9.6], [8, 12.3, 29.2, 10.6], [9, 16.9, 42.9, 14.8], [10, 12.8, 30.9, 11.6], [11, 5.3, 7.9, 4.7], [12, 6.6, 8.4, 5.2], [13, 4.8, 6.3, 3.6], [14, 4.2, 6.2, 3.4] ]); var options = { chart: { title: 'Box Office Earnings in First Two Weeks of Opening', subtitle: 'in millions of dollars (USD)' }, width: 900, height: 500 }; var chart = new google.charts.Line(document.getElementById('linechart_material')); chart.draw(data, google.charts.Line.convertOptions(options)); }
The Material Charts are in beta. The appearance and interactivity are largely final, but many of the options available in Classic Charts are not yet available in them. You can find a list of options that are not yet supported in this issue.
Also, the way options are declared is not finalized, so if you are using any of the classic options, you must convert them to material options by replacing this line: chart.draw(data, options);
...with this: chart.draw(data, google.charts.Line.convertOptions(options));
Dual-Y Charts
Sometimes you'll want to display two series in a line chart, with two independent y-axes: a left axis for one series, and a right axis for another:
Note that not only are our two y-axes labeled differently ("Temps" versus "Daylight") but they each have their own independent scales and gridlines. If you want to customize this behavior, use the vAxis.gridlines
and vAxis.viewWindow
options.
In the Material code below, the axes
and series
options together specify the dual-Y appearance of the chart. The series
option specifies which axis to use for each ('Temps'
and 'Daylight'
; they needn't have any relation to the column names in the datatable). The axes
option then makes this chart a dual-Y chart, placing the 'Temps'
axis on the left and the 'Daylight'
axis on the right.
In the Classic code, this differs slightly. Rather than the axes
option, you will use the vAxes
option (or hAxes
on horizontally oriented charts). Also, instead of using names, you will use the index numbers to coordinate a series with an axis using the targetAxisIndex
option.
var materialOptions = { chart: { title: 'Average Temperatures and Daylight in Iceland Throughout the Year' }, width: 900, height: 500, series: { // Gives each series an axis name that matches the Y-axis below. 0: {axis: 'Temps'}, 1: {axis: 'Daylight'} }, axes: { // Adds labels to each axis; they don't have to match the axis names. y: { Temps: {label: 'Temps (Celsius)'}, Daylight: {label: 'Daylight'} } } };
var classicOptions = { title: 'Average Temperatures and Daylight in Iceland Throughout the Year', width: 900, height: 500, // Gives each series an axis that matches the vAxes number below. series: { 0: {targetAxisIndex: 0}, 1: {targetAxisIndex: 1} }, vAxes: { // Adds titles to each axis. 0: {title: 'Temps (Celsius)'}, 1: {title: 'Daylight'} }, hAxis: { ticks: [new Date(2014, 0), new Date(2014, 1), new Date(2014, 2), new Date(2014, 3), new Date(2014, 4), new Date(2014, 5), new Date(2014, 6), new Date(2014, 7), new Date(2014, 8), new Date(2014, 9), new Date(2014, 10), new Date(2014, 11) ] }, vAxis: { viewWindow: { max: 30 } } };
Top-X Charts
Note: Top-X axes are available only for Material charts (i.e., those with package line
).
If you want to put the X-axis labels and title on the top of your chart rather than the bottom, you can do that in Material charts with the axes.x
option:
<html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> google.charts.load('current', {'packages':['line']}); google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart); function drawChart() { var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(); data.addColumn('number', 'Day'); data.addColumn('number', 'Guardians of the Galaxy'); data.addColumn('number', 'The Avengers'); data.addColumn('number', 'Transformers: Age of Extinction'); data.addRows([ [1, 37.8, 80.8, 41.8], [2, 30.9, 69.5, 32.4], [3, 25.4, 57, 25.7], [4, 11.7, 18.8, 10.5], [5, 11.9, 17.6, 10.4], [6, 8.8, 13.6, 7.7], [7, 7.6, 12.3, 9.6], [8, 12.3, 29.2, 10.6], [9, 16.9, 42.9, 14.8], [10, 12.8, 30.9, 11.6], [11, 5.3, 7.9, 4.7], [12, 6.6, 8.4, 5.2], [13, 4.8, 6.3, 3.6], [14, 4.2, 6.2, 3.4] ]); var options = { chart: { title: 'Box Office Earnings in First Two Weeks of Opening', subtitle: 'in millions of dollars (USD)' }, width: 900, height: 500, axes: { x: { 0: {side: 'top'} } } }; var chart = new google.charts.Line(document.getElementById('line_top_x')); chart.draw(data, google.charts.Line.convertOptions(options)); } </script> </head> <body> <div id="line_top_x"></div> </body> </html>
Loading
The google.charts.load
package name is "corechart"
, and the visualization's class name is google.visualization.LineChart
.
google.charts.load("current", {packages: ["corechart"]});
var visualization = new google.visualization.LineChart(container);
For Material Line Charts, the google.charts.load
package name is "line"
, and the visualization's class name is google.charts.Line
.
google.charts.load("current", {packages: ["line"]});
var visualization = new google.charts.Line(container);
Data Format
Rows: Each row in the table represents a set of data points with the same x-axis location.
Columns:
Column 0 | Column 1 | ... | Column N | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Purpose: |
| Line 1 values | ... | Line N values |
Data Type: |
| number | ... | number |
Role: | domain | data | ... | data |
Optional column roles: | ... |
Configuration Options
Name | |
---|---|
aggregationTarget | How multiple data selections are rolled up into tooltips:
aggregationTarget will often be used in tandem with selectionMode and tooltip.trigger , e.g.: var options = { // Allow multiple // simultaneous selections. selectionMode: 'multiple', // Trigger tooltips // on selections. tooltip: {trigger: 'selection'}, // Group selections // by x-value. aggregationTarget: 'category', }; Type: string Default: 'auto' |
animation.duration | The duration of the animation, in milliseconds. For details, see the animation documentation. Type: number Default: 0 |
animation.startup | Determines if the chart will animate on the initial draw. If Type: boolean Default false |
animation.easing | The easing function applied to the animation. The following options are available:
Type: string Default: 'linear' |
annotations.boxStyle | For charts that support annotations, the var options = { annotations: { boxStyle: { // Color of the box outline. stroke: '#888', // Thickness of the box outline. strokeWidth: 1, // x-radius of the corner curvature. rx: 10, // y-radius of the corner curvature. ry: 10, // Attributes for linear gradient fill. gradient: { // Start color for gradient. color1: '#fbf6a7', // Finish color for gradient. color2: '#33b679', // Where on the boundary to start and // end the color1/color2 gradient, // relative to the upper left corner // of the boundary. x1: '0%', y1: '0%', x2: '100%', y2: '100%', // If true, the boundary for x1, // y1, x2, and y2 is the box. If // false, it's the entire chart. useObjectBoundingBoxUnits: true } } } }; This option is currently supported for area, bar, column, combo, line, and scatter charts. It is not supported by the Annotation Chart. Type: object Default: null |
annotations.datum | For charts that support annotations, the annotations.datum object lets you override Google Charts' choice for annotations provided for individual data elements (such as values displayed with each bar on a bar chart). You can control the color with annotations.datum.stem.color , the stem length with annotations.datum.stem.length , and the style with annotations.datum.style . Type: object Default: color is "black"; length is 12; style is "point". |
annotations.domain | For charts that support annotations, the annotations.domain object lets you override Google Charts' choice for annotations provided for a domain (the major axis of the chart, such as the X axis on a typical line chart). You can control the color with annotations.domain.stem.color , the stem length with annotations.domain.stem.length , and the style with annotations.domain.style . Type: object Default: color is "black"; length is 5; style is "point". |
annotations.highContrast | For charts that support annotations, the annotations.highContrast boolean lets you override Google Charts' choice of the annotation color. By default, annotations.highContrast is true, which causes Charts to select an annotation color with good contrast: light colors on dark backgrounds, and dark on light. If you set annotations.highContrast to false and don't specify your own annotation color, Google Charts will use the default series color for the annotation: Type: boolean Default: true |
annotations.stem | For charts that support annotations, the annotations.stem object lets you override Google Charts' choice for the stem style. You can control color with annotations.stem.color and the stem length with annotations.stem.length . Note that the stem length option has no effect on annotations with style 'line' : for 'line' datum annotations, the stem length is always the same as the text, and for 'line' domain annotations, the stem extends across the entire chart. Type: object Default: color is "black"; length is 5 for domain annotations and 12 for datum annotations. |
annotations.style | For charts that support annotations, the annotations.style option lets you override Google Charts' choice of the annotation type. It can be either 'line' or 'point' . Type: string Default: 'point' |
annotations.textStyle | For charts that support annotations, the annotations.textStyle object controls the appearance of the text of the annotation: var options = { annotations: { textStyle: { fontName: 'Times-Roman', fontSize: 18, bold: true, italic: true, // The color of the text. color: '#871b47', // The color of the text outline. auraColor: '#d799ae', // The transparency of the text. opacity: 0.8 } } }; This option is currently supported for area, bar, column, combo, line, and scatter charts. It is not supported by the Annotation Chart . Type: object Default: null |
axisTitlesPosition | Where to place the axis titles, compared to the chart area. Supported values:
Type: string Default: 'out' |
backgroundColor | The background color for the main area of the chart. Can be either a simple HTML color string, for example: Type: string or object Default: 'white' |
backgroundColor.stroke | The color of the chart border, as an HTML color string. Type: string Default: '#666' |
backgroundColor.strokeWidth | The border width, in pixels. Type: number Default: 0 |
backgroundColor.fill | The chart fill color, as an HTML color string. Type: string Default: 'white' |
chartArea | An object with members to configure the placement and size of the chart area (where the chart itself is drawn, excluding axis and legends). Two formats are supported: a number, or a number followed by %. A simple number is a value in pixels; a number followed by % is a percentage. Example: Type: object Default: null |
chartArea.backgroundColor | Chart area background color. When a string is used, it can be either a hex string (e.g., '#fdc') or an English color name. When an object is used, the following properties can be provided:
Type: string or object Default: 'white' |
chartArea.left | How far to draw the chart from the left border. Type: number or string Default: auto |
chartArea.top | How far to draw the chart from the top border. Type: number or string Default: auto |
chartArea.width | Chart area width. Type: number or string Default: auto |
chartArea.height | Chart area height. Type: number or string Default: auto |
colors | The colors to use for the chart elements. An array of strings, where each element is an HTML color string, for example: Type: Array of strings Default: default colors |
crosshair | An object containing the crosshair properties for the chart. Type: object Default: null |
crosshair.color | The crosshair color, expressed as either a color name (e.g., "blue") or an RGB value (e.g., "#adf"). Type: string Type: default |
crosshair.focused | An object containing the crosshair properties upon focus. Type: object Default: default |
crosshair.opacity | The crosshair opacity, with Type: number Default: 1.0 |
crosshair.orientation | The crosshair orientation, which can be 'vertical' for vertical hairs only, 'horizontal' for horizontal hairs only, or 'both' for traditional crosshairs. Type: string Default: 'both' |
crosshair.selected | An object containing the crosshair properties upon selection. Type: object Default: default |
crosshair.trigger | When to display crosshairs: on Type: string Default: 'both' |
curveType | Controls the curve of the lines when the line width is not zero. Can be one of the following:
Type:string Default: 'none' |
dataOpacity | The transparency of data points, with 1.0 being completely opaque and 0.0 fully transparent. In scatter, histogram, bar, and column charts, this refers to the visible data: dots in the scatter chart and rectangles in the others. In charts where selecting data creates a dot, such as the line and area charts, this refers to the circles that appear upon hover or selection. The combo chart exhibits both behaviors, and this option has no effect on other charts. (To change the opacity of a trendline, see trendline opacity .) Type: number Default: 1.0 |
enableInteractivity | Whether the chart throws user-based events or reacts to user interaction. If false, the chart will not throw 'select' or other interaction-based events (but will throw ready or error events), and will not display hovertext or otherwise change depending on user input. Type: boolean Default: true |
explorer | The This feature is experimental and may change in future releases. Note: The explorer only works with continuous axes (such as numbers or dates). Type: object Default: null |
explorer.actions | The Google Charts explorer supports three actions:
Type: Array of strings Default: ['dragToPan', 'rightClickToReset'] |
explorer.axis | By default, users can pan both horizontally and vertically when the Type: string Default: both horizontal and vertical panning |
explorer.keepInBounds | By default, users can pan all around, regardless of where the data is. To ensure that users don't pan beyond the original chart, use Type: boolean Default: false |
explorer.maxZoomIn | The maximum that the explorer can zoom in. By default, users will be able to zoom in enough that they'll see only 25% of the original view. Setting Type: number Default: 0.25 |
explorer.maxZoomOut | The maximum that the explorer can zoom out. By default, users will be able to zoom out far enough that the chart will take up only 1/4 of the available space. Setting Type: number Default: 4 |
explorer.zoomDelta | When users zoom in or out, Type: number Default: 1.5 |
focusTarget | The type of the entity that receives focus on mouse hover. Also affects which entity is selected by mouse click, and which data table element is associated with events. Can be one of the following:
In focusTarget 'category' the tooltip displays all the category values. This may be useful for comparing values of different series. Type: string Default: 'datum' |
fontSize | The default font size, in pixels, of all text in the chart. You can override this using properties for specific chart elements. Type: number Default: automatic |
fontName | The default font face for all text in the chart. You can override this using properties for specific chart elements. Type: string Default: 'Arial' |
forceIFrame | Draws the chart inside an inline frame. (Note that on IE8, this option is ignored; all IE8 charts are drawn in i-frames.) Type: boolean Default: false |
hAxis | An object with members to configure various horizontal axis elements. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: { title: 'Hello', titleTextStyle: { color: '#FF0000' } } Type: object Default: null |
hAxis.baseline | The baseline for the horizontal axis. This option is only supported for a Type: number Default: automatic |
hAxis.baselineColor | The color of the baseline for the horizontal axis. Can be any HTML color string, for example: This option is only supported for a Type: number Default: 'black' |
hAxis.direction | The direction in which the values along the horizontal axis grow. Specify Type: 1 or -1 Default: 1 |
hAxis.format | A format string for numeric or date axis labels. For number axis labels, this is a subset of the decimal formatting ICU pattern set . For instance,
For date axis labels, this is a subset of the date formatting ICU pattern set . For instance, The actual formatting applied to the label is derived from the locale the API has been loaded with. For more details, see loading charts with a specific locale . In computing tick values and gridlines, several alternative combinations of all the relevant gridline options will be considered and alternatives will be rejected if the formatted tick labels would be duplicated or overlap. So you can specify This option is only supported for a Type: string Default: auto |
hAxis.gridlines | An object with properties to configure the gridlines on the horizontal axis. Note that horizontal axis gridlines are drawn vertically. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: {color: '#333', minSpacing: 20} This option is only supported for a Type: object Default: null |
hAxis.gridlines.color | The color of the horizontal gridlines inside the chart area. Specify a valid HTML color string. Type: string Default: '#CCC' |
hAxis.gridlines.count | The approximate number of horizontal gridlines inside the chart area. If you specify a positive number for Type: number Default: -1 |
hAxis.gridlines.interval | An array of sizes (as data values, not pixels) between adjacent gridlines. This option is only for numeric axes at this time, but it is analogous to the Type: number between 1 and 10, not including 10. Default: computed |
hAxis.gridlines.minSpacing | The minimum screen space, in pixels, between hAxis major gridlines. The default for major gridlines is Type: number Default: computed |
hAxis.gridlines.multiple | All gridline and tick values must be a multiple of this option's value. Note that, unlike for intervals, powers of 10 times the multiple are not considered. So you can force ticks to be integers by specifying Type: number Default: 1 |
hAxis.gridlines.units | Overrides the default format for various aspects of date/datetime/timeofday data types when used with chart computed gridlines. Allows formatting for years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds. General format is: gridlines: { units: { years: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, months: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, days: {format: [/*format strings here*/]} hours: {format: [/*format strings here*/]} minutes: {format: [/*format strings here*/]} seconds: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, milliseconds: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, } } Additional information can be found in Dates and Times. Type: object Default: null |
hAxis.minorGridlines | An object with members to configure the minor gridlines on the horizontal axis, similar to the hAxis.gridlines option. This option is only supported for a Type: object Default: null |
hAxis.minorGridlines.color | The color of the horizontal minor gridlines inside the chart area. Specify a valid HTML color string. Type: string Default: A blend of the gridline and background colors |
hAxis.minorGridlines.count | The Type: number Default:1 |
hAxis.minorGridlines.interval | The minorGridlines.interval option is like the major gridlines interval option, but the interval that is chosen will always be an even divisor of the major gridline interval. The default interval for linear scales is Type: number Default:1 |
hAxis.minorGridlines.minSpacing | The minimum required space, in pixels, between adjacent minor gridlines, and between minor and major gridlines. The default value is 1/2 the minSpacing of major gridlines for linear scales, and 1/5 the minSpacing for log scales. Type: number Default:computed |
hAxis.minorGridlines.multiple | Same as for major Type: number Default: 1 |
hAxis.minorGridlines.units | Overrides the default format for various aspects of date/datetime/timeofday data types when used with chart computed minorGridlines. Allows formatting for years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds. General format is: gridlines: { units: { years: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, months: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, days: {format: [/*format strings here*/]} hours: {format: [/*format strings here*/]} minutes: {format: [/*format strings here*/]} seconds: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, milliseconds: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, } } Additional information can be found in Dates and Times. Type: object Default: null |
hAxis.logScale | This option is only supported for a Type: boolean Default: false |
hAxis.scaleType |
This option is only supported for a Type: string Default: null |
hAxis.textPosition | Position of the horizontal axis text, relative to the chart area. Supported values: 'out', 'in', 'none'. Type: string Default: 'out' |
hAxis.textStyle | An object that specifies the horizontal axis text style. The object has this format: { color: <string>, fontName: <string>, fontSize: <number>, bold: <boolean>, italic: <boolean> } The Type: object Default: {color: 'black', fontName: <global-font-name>, fontSize: <global-font-size>} |
hAxis.ticks | Replaces the automatically generated X-axis ticks with the specified array. Each element of the array should be either a valid tick value (such as a number, date, datetime, or timeofday), or an object. If it's an object, it should have a The viewWindow will be automatically expanded to include the min and max ticks unless you specify a Examples:
This option is only supported for a Type: Array of elements Default: auto |
hAxis.title | Type: string Default: null |
hAxis.titleTextStyle | An object that specifies the horizontal axis title text style. The object has this format: { color: <string>, fontName: <string>, fontSize: <number>, bold: <boolean>, italic: <boolean> } The Type: object Default: {color: 'black', fontName: <global-font-name>, fontSize: <global-font-size>} |
hAxis.allowContainerBoundaryTextCutoff | If false, will hide outermost labels rather than allow them to be cropped by the chart container. If true, will allow label cropping. This option is only supported for a Type: boolean Default: false |
hAxis.slantedText | If true, draw the horizontal axis text at an angle, to help fit more text along the axis; if false, draw horizontal axis text upright. Default behavior is to slant text if it cannot all fit when drawn upright. Notice that this option is available only when the Type: boolean Default: automatic |
hAxis.slantedTextAngle | The angle of the horizontal axis text, if it's drawn slanted. Ignored if Type: number, -90—90 Default: 30 |
hAxis.maxAlternation | Maximum number of levels of horizontal axis text. If axis text labels become too crowded, the server might shift neighboring labels up or down in order to fit labels closer together. This value specifies the most number of levels to use; the server can use fewer levels, if labels can fit without overlapping. For dates and times, the default is 1. Type: number Default: 2 |
hAxis.maxTextLines | Maximum number of lines allowed for the text labels. Labels can span multiple lines if they are too long, and the number of lines is, by default, limited by the height of the available space. Type: number Default: auto |
hAxis.minTextSpacing | Minimum horizontal spacing, in pixels, allowed between two adjacent text labels. If the labels are spaced too densely, or they are too long, the spacing can drop below this threshold, and in this case one of the label-unclutter measures will be applied (e.g, truncating the labels or dropping some of them). Type: number Default: The value of hAxis.textStyle.fontSize |
hAxis.showTextEvery | How many horizontal axis labels to show, where 1 means show every label, 2 means show every other label, and so on. Default is to try to show as many labels as possible without overlapping. Type: number Default: automatic |
hAxis.maxValue | Moves the max value of the horizontal axis to the specified value; this will be rightward in most charts. Ignored if this is set to a value smaller than the maximum x-value of the data. This option is only supported for a Type: number Default: automatic |
hAxis.minValue | Moves the min value of the horizontal axis to the specified value; this will be leftward in most charts. Ignored if this is set to a value greater than the minimum x-value of the data. This option is only supported for a Type: number Default: automatic |
hAxis.viewWindowMode | Specifies how to scale the horizontal axis to render the values within the chart area. The following string values are supported:
This option is only supported for a Type: string Default: Equivalent to 'pretty', but haxis.viewWindow.min and haxis.viewWindow.max take precedence if used. |
hAxis.viewWindow | Specifies the cropping range of the horizontal axis. Type: object Default: null |
hAxis.viewWindow.max |
Ignored when Type: number Default: auto |
hAxis.viewWindow.min |
Ignored when Type: number Default: auto |
height | Height of the chart, in pixels. Type: number Default: height of the containing element |
interpolateNulls | Whether to guess the value of missing points. If true, it will guess the value of any missing data based on neighboring points. If false, it will leave a break in the line at the unknown point. This is not supported by Area charts with the Type: boolean Default: false |
legend | An object with members to configure various aspects of the legend. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: {position: 'top', textStyle: {color: 'blue', fontSize: 16}} Type: object Default: null |
legend.alignment | Alignment of the legend. Can be one of the following:
Start, center, and end are relative to the style -- vertical or horizontal -- of the legend. For example, in a 'right' legend, 'start' and 'end' are at the top and bottom, respectively; for a 'top' legend, 'start' and 'end' would be at the left and right of the area, respectively. The default value depends on the legend's position. For 'bottom' legends, the default is 'center'; other legends default to 'start'. Type: string Default: automatic |
legend.maxLines | Maximum number of lines in the legend. Set this to a number greater than one to add lines to your legend. Note: The exact logic used to determine the actual number of lines rendered is still in flux. This option currently works only when legend.position is 'top'. Type: number Default: 1 |
legend.pageIndex | Initial selected zero-based page index of the legend. Type: number Default: 0 |
legend.position | Position of the legend. Can be one of the following:
Type: string Default: 'right' |
legend.textStyle | An object that specifies the legend text style. The object has this format: { color: <string>, fontName: <string>, fontSize: <number>, bold: <boolean>, italic: <boolean> } The Type: object Default: {color: 'black', fontName: <global-font-name>, fontSize: <global-font-size>} |
lineDashStyle | The on-and-off pattern for dashed lines. For instance, Type: Array of numbers Default: null |
lineWidth | Data line width in pixels. Use zero to hide all lines and show only the points. You can override values for individual series using the Type: number Default: 2 |
orientation | The orientation of the chart. When set to Type: string Default: 'horizontal' |
pointShape | The shape of individual data elements: 'circle', 'triangle', 'square', 'diamond', 'star', or 'polygon'. See the points documentation for examples. Type: string Default: 'circle' |
pointSize | Diameter of displayed points in pixels. Use zero to hide all points. You can override values for individual series using the Type: number Default: 0 |
pointsVisible | Determines whether points will be displayed. Set to This can also be overridden using the style role in the form of Type: boolean Default: true |
reverseCategories | If set to true, will draw series from right to left. The default is to draw left-to-right. This option is only supported for a Type: boolean Default: false |
selectionMode | When Type: string Default: 'single' |
series | An array of objects, each describing the format of the corresponding series in the chart. To use default values for a series, specify an empty object {}. If a series or a value is not specified, the global value will be used. Each object supports the following properties:
You can specify either an array of objects, each of which applies to the series in the order given, or you can specify an object where each child has a numeric key indicating which series it applies to. For example, the following two declarations are identical, and declare the first series as black and absent from the legend, and the fourth as red and absent from the legend: series: [ {color: 'black', visibleInLegend: false}, {}, {}, {color: 'red', visibleInLegend: false} ] series: { 0:{color: 'black', visibleInLegend: false}, 3:{color: 'red', visibleInLegend: false} } Type: Array of objects, or object with nested objects Default: {} |
theme | A theme is a set of predefined option values that work together to achieve a specific chart behavior or visual effect. Currently only one theme is available:
Type: string Default: null |
title | Text to display above the chart. Type: string Default: no title |
titlePosition | Where to place the chart title, compared to the chart area. Supported values:
Type: string Default: 'out' |
titleTextStyle | An object that specifies the title text style. The object has this format: { color: <string>, fontName: <string>, fontSize: <number>, bold: <boolean>, italic: <boolean> } The Type: object Default: {color: 'black', fontName: <global-font-name>, fontSize: <global-font-size>} |
tooltip | An object with members to configure various tooltip elements. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: {textStyle: {color: '#FF0000'}, showColorCode: true} Type: object Default: null |
tooltip.ignoreBounds | If set to Note: This only applies to HTML tooltips. If this is enabled with SVG tooltips, any overflow outside of the chart bounds will be cropped. See Customizing Tooltip Content for more details. Type: boolean Default: false |
tooltip.isHtml | If set to true, use HTML-rendered (rather than SVG-rendered) tooltips. See Customizing Tooltip Content for more details. Note: customization of the HTML tooltip content via the tooltip column data role is not supported by the Bubble Chart visualization. Type: boolean Default: false |
tooltip.showColorCode | If true, show colored squares next to the series information in the tooltip. The default is true when Type: boolean Default: automatic |
tooltip.textStyle | An object that specifies the tooltip text style. The object has this format: { color: <string>, fontName: <string>, fontSize: <number>, bold: <boolean>, italic: <boolean> } The Type: object Default: {color: 'black', fontName: <global-font-name>, fontSize: <global-font-size>} |
tooltip.trigger | The user interaction that causes the tooltip to be displayed:
Type: string Default: 'focus' |
trendlines | Displays trendlines on the charts that support them. By default, linear trendlines are used, but this can be customized with the
Trendlines are specified on a per-series basis, so most of the time your options will look like this: var options = { trendlines: { 0: { type: 'linear', color: 'green', lineWidth: 3, opacity: 0.3, showR2: true, visibleInLegend: true } } } Type: object Default: null |
trendlines.n.color | The color of the trendline , expressed as either an English color name or a hex string. Type: string Default: default series color |
trendlines.n.degree | For trendlines of Type: number Default: 3 |
trendlines.n.labelInLegend | If set, the trendline will appear in the legend as this string. Type: string Default: null |
trendlines.n.lineWidth | The line width of the trendline , in pixels. Type: number Default: 2 |
trendlines.n.opacity | The transparency of the trendline , from 0.0 (transparent) to 1.0 (opaque). Type: number Default: 1.0 |
trendlines.n.pointSize | Trendlines are constucted by stamping a bunch of dots on the chart; this rarely-needed option lets you customize the size of the dots. The trendline's Type: number Default: 1 |
trendlines.n.pointsVisible | Trendlines are constucted by stamping a bunch of dots on the chart. The trendline's Type: boolean Default: true |
trendlines.n.showR2 | Whether to show the coefficient of determination in the legend or trendline tooltip. Type: boolean Default: false |
trendlines.n.type | Whether the trendlines is Type: string Default: linear |
trendlines.n.visibleInLegend | Whether the trendline equation appears in the legend. (It will appear in the trendline tooltip.) Type: boolean Default: false |
vAxes | Specifies properties for individual vertical axes, if the chart has multiple vertical axes. Each child object is a To specify a chart with multiple vertical axes, first define a new axis using { series: { 2: { targetAxisIndex:1 } }, vAxes: { 1: { title:'Losses', textStyle: {color: 'red'} } } } This property can be either an object or an array: the object is a collection of objects, each with a numeric label that specifies the axis that it defines--this is the format shown above; the array is an array of objects, one per axis. For example, the following array-style notation is identical to the vAxes: [ {}, // Nothing specified for axis 0 { title:'Losses', textStyle: {color: 'red'} // Axis 1 } ] Type: Array of object, or object with child objects Default: null |
vAxis | An object with members to configure various vertical axis elements. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: {title: 'Hello', titleTextStyle: {color: '#FF0000'}} Type: object Default: null |
vAxis.baseline | Type: number Default: automatic |
vAxis.baselineColor | Specifies the color of the baseline for the vertical axis. Can be any HTML color string, for example: Type: number Default: 'black' |
vAxis.direction | The direction in which the values along the vertical axis grow. By default, low values are on the bottom of the chart. Specify Type: 1 or -1 Default: 1 |
vAxis.format | A format string for numeric axis labels. This is a subset of the ICU pattern set . For instance,
The actual formatting applied to the label is derived from the locale the API has been loaded with. For more details, see loading charts with a specific locale . In computing tick values and gridlines, several alternative combinations of all the relevant gridline options will be considered and alternatives will be rejected if the formatted tick labels would be duplicated or overlap. So you can specify Type: string Default: auto |
vAxis.gridlines | An object with members to configure the gridlines on the vertical axis. Note that vertical axis gridlines are drawn horizontally. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: {color: '#333', minSpacing: 20} Type: object Default: null |
vAxis.gridlines.color | The color of the vertical gridlines inside the chart area. Specify a valid HTML color string. Type: string Default: '#CCC' |
vAxis.gridlines.count | The approximate number of horizontal gridlines inside the chart area. If you specify a positive number for Type: number Default: -1 |
vAxis.gridlines.interval | An array of sizes (as data values, not pixels) between adjacent gridlines. This option is only for numeric axes at this time, but it is analogous to the Type: number between 1 and 10, not including 10. Default: computed |
vAxis.gridlines.minSpacing | The minimum screen space, in pixels, between hAxis major gridlines. The default for major gridlines is Type: number Default: computed |
vAxis.gridlines.multiple | All gridline and tick values must be a multiple of this option's value. Note that, unlike for intervals, powers of 10 times the multiple are not considered. So you can force ticks to be integers by specifying Type: number Default: 1 |
vAxis.gridlines.units | Overrides the default format for various aspects of date/datetime/timeofday data types when used with chart computed gridlines. Allows formatting for years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds. General format is: gridlines: { units: { years: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, months: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, days: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, hours: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, minutes: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, seconds: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, milliseconds: {format: [/*format strings here*/]} } } Additional information can be found in Dates and Times. Type: object Default: null |
vAxis.minorGridlines | An object with members to configure the minor gridlines on the vertical axis, similar to the vAxis.gridlines option. Type: object Default: null |
vAxis.minorGridlines.color | The color of the vertical minor gridlines inside the chart area. Specify a valid HTML color string. Type: string Default: A blend of the gridline and background colors |
vAxis.minorGridlines.count | The minorGridlines.count option is mostly deprecated, except for disabling minor gridlines by setting the count to 0. The number of minor gridlines depends on the interval between major gridlines (see vAxis.gridlines.interval) and the minimum required space (see vAxis.minorGridlines.minSpacing). Type: number Default: 1 |
vAxis.minorGridlines.interval | The minorGridlines.interval option is like the major gridlines interval option, but the interval that is chosen will always be an even divisor of the major gridline interval. The default interval for linear scales is Type: number Default:1 |
vAxis.minorGridlines.minSpacing | The minimum required space, in pixels, between adjacent minor gridlines, and between minor and major gridlines. The default value is 1/2 the minSpacing of major gridlines for linear scales, and 1/5 the minSpacing for log scales. Type: number Default:computed |
vAxis.minorGridlines.multiple | Same as for major Type: number Default: 1 |
vAxis.minorGridlines.units | Overrides the default format for various aspects of date/datetime/timeofday data types when used with chart computed minorGridlines. Allows formatting for years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds. General format is: gridlines: { units: { years: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, months: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, days: {format: [/*format strings here*/]} hours: {format: [/*format strings here*/]} minutes: {format: [/*format strings here*/]} seconds: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, milliseconds: {format: [/*format strings here*/]}, } } Additional information can be found in Dates and Times. Type: object Default: null |
vAxis.logScale | If true, makes the vertical axis a logarithmic scale. Note: All values must be positive. Type: boolean Default: false |
vAxis.scaleType |
This option is only supported for a Type: string Default: null |
vAxis.textPosition | Position of the vertical axis text, relative to the chart area. Supported values: 'out', 'in', 'none'. Type: string Default: 'out' |
vAxis.textStyle | An object that specifies the vertical axis text style. The object has this format: { color: <string>, fontName: <string>, fontSize: <number>, bold: <boolean>, italic: <boolean> } The Type: object Default: {color: 'black', fontName: <global-font-name>, fontSize: <global-font-size>} |
vAxis.ticks | Replaces the automatically generated Y-axis ticks with the specified array. Each element of the array should be either a valid tick value (such as a number, date, datetime, or timeofday), or an object. If it's an object, it should have a The viewWindow will be automatically expanded to include the min and max ticks unless you specify a Examples:
Type: Array of elements Default: auto |
vAxis.title |
Type: string Default: no title |
vAxis.titleTextStyle | An object that specifies the vertical axis title text style. The object has this format: { color: <string>, fontName: <string>, fontSize: <number>, bold: <boolean>, italic: <boolean> } The Type: object Default: {color: 'black', fontName: <global-font-name>, fontSize: <global-font-size>} |
vAxis.maxValue | Moves the max value of the vertical axis to the specified value; this will be upward in most charts. Ignored if this is set to a value smaller than the maximum y-value of the data. Type: number Default: automatic |
vAxis.minValue | Moves the min value of the vertical axis to the specified value; this will be downward in most charts. Ignored if this is set to a value greater than the minimum y-value of the data. Type: number Default: null |
vAxis.viewWindowMode | Specifies how to scale the vertical axis to render the values within the chart area. The following string values are supported:
Type: string Default: Equivalent to 'pretty', but vaxis.viewWindow.min and vaxis.viewWindow.max take precedence if used. |
vAxis.viewWindow | Specifies the cropping range of the vertical axis. Type: object Default: null |
vAxis.viewWindow.max | The maximum vertical data value to render. Ignored when Type: number Default: auto |
vAxis.viewWindow.min | The minimum vertical data value to render. Ignored when Type: number Default: auto |
width | Width of the chart, in pixels. Type: number Default: width of the containing element |
Methods
Method | |
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draw(data, options) | Draws the chart. The chart accepts further method calls only after the Return Type: none |
getAction(actionID) | Returns the tooltip action object with the requested Return Type: object |
getBoundingBox(id) | Returns an object containing the left, top, width, and height of chart element
Values are relative to the container of the chart. Call this after the chart is drawn. Return Type: object |
getChartAreaBoundingBox() | Returns an object containing the left, top, width, and height of the chart content (i.e., excluding labels and legend):
Values are relative to the container of the chart. Call this after the chart is drawn. Return Type: object |
getChartLayoutInterface() | Returns an object containing information about the onscreen placement of the chart and its elements. The following methods can be called on the returned object:
Call this after the chart is drawn. Return Type: object |
getHAxisValue(xPosition, optional_axis_index) | Returns the horizontal data value at Example: Call this after the chart is drawn. Return Type: number |
getImageURI() | Returns the chart serialized as an image URI. Call this after the chart is drawn. See Printing PNG Charts. Return Type: string |
getSelection() | Returns an array of the selected chart entities. Selectable entities are points, annotations, legend entries and categories. A point or annotation corresponds to a cell in the data table, a legend entry to a column (row index is null), and a category to a row (column index is null). For this chart, only one entity can be selected at any given moment. Return Type: Array of selection elements |
getVAxisValue(yPosition, optional_axis_index) | Returns the vertical data value at Example: Call this after the chart is drawn. Return Type: number |
getXLocation(dataValue, optional_axis_index) | Returns the pixel x-coordinate of Example: Call this after the chart is drawn. Return Type: number |
getYLocation(dataValue, optional_axis_index) | Returns the pixel y-coordinate of Example: Call this after the chart is drawn. Return Type: number |
removeAction(actionID) | Removes the tooltip action with the requested Return Type: none |
setAction(action) | Sets a tooltip action to be executed when the user clicks on the action text. The Any and all tooltip actions should be set prior to calling the chart's Return Type: none |
setSelection() | Selects the specified chart entities. Cancels any previous selection. Selectable entities are points, annotations, legend entries and categories. A point or annotation corresponds to a cell in the data table, a legend entry to a column (row index is null), and a category to a row (column index is null). For this chart, only one entity can be selected at a time. Return Type: none |
clearChart() | Clears the chart, and releases all of its allocated resources. Return Type: none |
Events
For more information on how to use these events, see Basic Interactivity, Handling Events, and Firing Events.
Name | |
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animationfinish | Fired when transition animation is complete. Properties: none |
click | Fired when the user clicks inside the chart. Can be used to identify when the title, data elements, legend entries, axes, gridlines, or labels are clicked. Properties: targetID |
error | Fired when an error occurs when attempting to render the chart. Properties: id, message |
legendpagination | Fired when the user clicks legend pagination arrows. Passes back the current legend zero-based page index and the total number of pages. Properties: currentPageIndex, totalPages |
onmouseover | Fired when the user mouses over a visual entity. Passes back the row and column indices of the corresponding data table element. Properties: row, column |
onmouseout | Fired when the user mouses away from a visual entity. Passes back the row and column indices of the corresponding data table element. Properties: row, column |
ready | The chart is ready for external method calls. If you want to interact with the chart, and call methods after you draw it, you should set up a listener for this event before you call the Properties: none |
select | Fired when the user clicks a visual entity. To learn what has been selected, call Properties: none |
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