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# RGraph: HTML5 canvas graph library - Horizontal bar chart documentation

The horizontal bar graph is a variation on the bar chart which can be useful when you have larger labels, since you have more space available to you for them.

The example file is here.

    <script>
        window.onload = function ()
        {
            var data = [280,45,133,166,84,259,266,960,219,311];

            var hbar = new RGraph.HBar('myCanvas', data);
            hbar.Set('chart.labels', ['Richard', 'Alex', 'Nick', 'Scott', 'Kjnell', 'Doug', 'Charles', 'Michelle', 'Mark', 'Alison']);
            hbar.Set('chart.gutter', 45);
            hbar.Set('chart.background.barcolor1', 'rgba(255,255,255,1)');
            hbar.Set('chart.background.barcolor2', 'rgba(255,255,255,1)');
            hbar.Set('chart.background.grid', true);
            hbar.Set('chart.colors', ['rgba(255,0,0,1)']);
            hbar.Draw();
        }
    </script>

## Properties

You can use these properties to control how the bar graph apears. You can set them by using the Set() method. Eg:

myHBar.Set('name', 'value');

- Margins
- Colors
- Background
- Labels and text
- Titles
- Scale and axes
- Miscellaneous
- Shadow
- Key
- Interactive features
- Zoom

### Margins

chart.gutter
The gutter of the graph. This is the area outside of the X and Y axis - where the labels go. If you're short on space for your labels, try increasing this.
Default: 25

### Colors

chart.colors
An array of the colors of the actual bars.
Default: An array - ['rgb(0,0,255)', '#0f0', '#00f', '#ff0', '#0ff', '#0f0']

### Background

chart.background.barcolor1
The color of the background bars, (1 of 2).
Default: white
chart.background.barcolor2
The color of the background bars, (2 of 2).
Default: white
chart.background.grid
Whether to show the background grid or not.
Default: true
chart.background.grid.color
The color of the background grid.
Default: #ddd
chart.background.grid.hsize
The horizontal background grid size.
Default: 40
chart.background.grid.vsize
The vertical background grid size.
Default: 18
chart.background.grid.width
The width that the background grid lines are. Decimals (eg 0.5) are permitted.
Default: 0.5
chart.background.grid.border
Determines whether a border line is drawn around the grid.
Default: true
chart.background.grid.hlines
Determines whether to draw the horizontal grid lines.
Default: true
chart.background.grid.vlines
Determines whether to draw the vertical grid lines.
Default: true
chart.background.grid.autofit
Instead of specifying a pixel width/height for the background grid, you can use autofit and specify how many horizontal and vertical lines you want.
Default: false
chart.background.grid.autofit.numhlines
When using autofit this allows you to specify how many horizontal grid lines you want.
Default: 14
chart.background.grid.autofit.numvlines
When using autofit this allows you to specify how many vertical grid lines you want.
Default: 20

### Labels and text

chart.labels
An array of the labels to be used on the graph.
Default: An empty array
chart.labels.above
This is a boolean which if true, will cause labels to be shown to the right of the bars. (It's called "above" for API compatibility).
Default: false
chart.text.font
The font used to render the text.
Default: Verdana
chart.text.color
The color of the labels.
Default: black
chart.text.size
The size (in points) of the labels.
Default: 10

### Titles

chart.title
The title of the graph, if any.
Default: null
chart.title.hpos
This allows you to completely override the horizontal positioning of the title. It should be a number between 0 and 1, and is multiplied with the whole width of the canvas and then used as the horizontal position.
Default: null
chart.title.vpos
This allows you to completely override the vertical positioning of the title. It should be a number between 0 and 1, and is multiplied with the gutter and then used as the vertical position. It can be useful if you need to have a large gutter.
Default: null
chart.title.xaxis
This allows to specify a title for the X axis.
Default: none
chart.title.yaxis
This allows to specify a title for the Y axis.
Default: none
chart.title.xaxis.pos
This is multiplied with the gutter to give the position of the X axis title.
Default: 0.25
chart.title.yaxis.pos
This is multiplied with the gutter to give the position of the Y axis title.
Default: 0.5
chart.title.color
The color of the title.
Default: black

### Scale and axes

chart.scale.point
The character used as the decimal point.
Default: .
chart.scale.thousand
The character used as the thousand separator
Default: ,
chart.scale.round
Whether to round the maximum scale value up or not. This will produce slightly better scales in some instances.
Default: null
chart.xmax
(Optional) An optional max figure for the X scale.
Default: none (one is calculated)
chart.yaxispos
The position of the Y axis. Works with regular and grouped charts. Can be either center or left.
Default: left
chart.axis.color
The color of the axes.
Default: black
chart.units.pre
The units that the X axis is measured in. This string is displayed BEFORE the actual number, allowing you to specify values such as "$50".
Default: none
chart.units.post
The units that the X axis is measured in. This string is displayed AFTER the actual number, allowing you to specify values such as "50ms".
Default: none
chart.units.ingraph
If your units are long, setting this stipulates them to be used for ingraph labels only.
Default: false

### Miscellaneous

chart.grouping
How the bars are grouped, and it should be one of: grouped or stacked
Default: grouped
chart.vmargin
The vertical margin that is applied to each individual bar.
Default: 3
chart.strokestyle
The color of the outlines of the bars.
Default: black

### Shadow

chart.shadow
Whether a small drop shadow is applied.
Default: false
chart.shadow.color
The color of the shadow.
Default: #666
chart.shadow.offsetx
The X offset of the shadow.
Default: 3
chart.shadow.offsety
The Y offset of the shadow.
Default: 3
chart.shadow.blur
The severity of the shadow blurring effect.
Default: 3

### Key

chart.key
An array of key information.
Default: [] (An empty array)
chart.key.background
The color of the key background. Typically white, you could set this to something like rgba(255,255,255,0.7) to allow people to see things behind it.
Default: white
chart.key.position
Determines the position of the key.Either graph (default), or gutter.
Default: graph
chart.key.shadow
Whether a small drop shadow is applied to the key.
Default: false
chart.key.shadow.color
The color of the shadow.
Default: #666
chart.key.shadow.blur
The extent of the blurring effect used on the shadow.
Default: 3
chart.key.shadow.offsetx
The X offset of the shadow.
Default: 2
chart.key.shadow.offsety
The Y offset of the shadow.
Default: 2
chart.key.rounded
This controls whether the corners of the key (in graph mode) are curved. If the key is gutter mode, this has no effect.
Default: false

### Interactive features

chart.contextmenu
An array of context menu items. You cannot have context menus AND tooltips, only one or the other. More information on context menus is here.
Default: [] (An empty array)
chart.tooltips
An array of tooltips for the chart.
Default: An empty array
chart.tooltips.effect
The visual effect used when showing tooltips. Can be either fade or expand.
Default: fade
chart.tooltips.css.class
This is the name of the CSS class the graph uses.
Default: RGraph_tooltip
chart.tooltips.override
If you wish to handle showing tooltips yourself, this should be a function object which does just that. There's more information on the tooltips documentation page
Default: null
chart.annotatable
Whether annotations are enabled for the chart (ie you can draw on the chart interactively.
Default: false
chart.annotate.color
If you do not allow the use of the palette, then this will be the only colour allowed for annotations.
Default: black
chart.resizable
Defaulting to false, this determines whether your graph will be resizable. Because of the numerous event handlers this has to install code on, This feature is unlikely to work with other dynamic features (the context menu is fine however).
Default: false

### Zoom

chart.zoom.mode
Can be used to control whether the zoom is in thumbnail or canvas mode. Possible values are: thumbnail and canvas.
Default: canvas
chart.zoom.factor
This is the factor that the graph will be zoomed by (bigger values means more zoom)
Default: 1.5
chart.zoom.fade.in
Whether the zoomed canvas fades in or not. This also can be used to control the fade in for the zoom in thumbnail mode.
Default: true
chart.zoom.fade.out
Whether the zoomed canvas fades out or not. This also can be used to control the fade in for the zoom in thumbnail mode.
Default: true
chart.zoom.hdir
The horizontal direction of the zoom. Possible values are: left, center, right
Default: right
chart.zoom.vdir
The vertical direction of the zoom. Possible values are: up, center, down
Default: down
chart.zoom.delay
The delay (in milliseconds) between frames.
Default: 50
chart.zoom.frames
The number of frames in the zoom animation.
Default: 10
chart.zoom.shadow
Whether or not the zoomed canvas has a shadow or not.
Default: true
chart.zoom.thumbnail.width
When the zoom is in thumbnail mode, this is the width (in pixels) of the thumbnail.
Default: 75
chart.zoom.thumbnail.height
When the zoom is in thumbnail mode, this is the height (in pixels) of the thumbnail.
Default: 75
chart.zoom.background
Defaulting to true, this determines whether the zoom has a dark, semi-opaque background that covers the entire web page.
Default: true