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How to position tooltip when moving along y-axis?

When I try to hover mouse along y-axis I observed that the tooltip is at the top but the point selected is at the bottom of the graph. This is because the point below might be the second point when we hover along the x-axis.
How do I make highcharts transverse points along the y-axis ?
Note: It is not a shared tooltip
I have tried setting the following attributes in the tooltip:
followPointer: true,
followTouchMove: true,

That is because of the default value of the findNearestPointBy option, which is 'x'. You can set it to 'y' or 'xy':
series: [{
findNearestPointBy: 'xy',
...
}]
Live demo: https://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/2nqdxp3z/
API Reference: https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/series.line.findNearestPointBy

Reduce space between ticks in horizontal bar-chart chartJS

I am using the horizontal bar chart from chartjs. Right now my Chart seems to be very big, and the space between the ticks on the xAxis is very high. ( I attached picture of that), can anyone tell me how to reduce this space and scale the chart in total better?
My css properties:
#myChart {
width: 90% !important;
height: 100% !important;
padding-left: 0;
padding-right: 0;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
display: block;
padding-bottom: 5%;
}
My chart options:
modelChart = new Chart(ctx, {
type: 'horizontalBar',
data: data,
options: {
scales: {
yAxes: [{
ticks: {
suggestedMin: 0,
fontSize: 18
}
}],
xAxes: [{
ticks: {
autoSkip: false,
fontSize: 18,
beginAtZero: true
}
}]
},
legend: {
display: false
},
tooltips: {
footerFontSize: 22,
bodyFontSize: 22,
titleFontSize: 18
},
hover: {
animationDuration: 0
}
}
});

If you post your corresponding HTML then I can confirm this, but is #myChart the id of your canvas element or of a div that contains your canvas element?
Chart.js will render the chart such that it fully fills the parent of the canvas element. Even if you set a width property on a canvas element it will still not affect the chart size.
Checkout this codepen example that demonstrates the difference. At the top is a chart contained by a div whose width is set to 40%. At the bottom is the same chart but the canvas element's width is set to 40%. Notice that the second chart still fills the entire window.
So long story short, you should wrap your canvas element in a div and set the div's desired size accordingly to actually change the size of your chart.
Now, let me address your question about changing the space between ticks in your X axis. There is not really a way to truly do this like I think you are wanting to do, because chart.js determines the tick placement by dividing the width of the chart by the number of tick steps (e.g. it always uses the full width of the chart equally).
So one way to decrease the space between ticks is to simply add more ticks (by changing the tick stepSize using the stepSize and fixedStepSize properties). Obviously, in this case, the chart size has not changed. You are just showing more ticks, so the space between them has decreased.
If you want to truly change the distance between ticks, then the only way is to decrease the width of the chart. But by default, the height of the chart will decrease along with the width because the maintainAspectRatio property is defaulted to true.
So if you want a narrower chart (but still want the chart to be large) then I would advise you to set the maintainAspectRatio property to false and manually set the height and width of your chart's parent div.
Checkout this codepen that gives an example of each of the tick spacing concepts that I discussed.
The first chart is the baseline, the second chart adds more ticks (thus decreasing the tick spacing), and the third chart changes the aspect ratio so the chart is still large but narrower (therefore the distance between ticks is reduced).

Try using chartArea: {width: '30%'}. Adjust percentage as per requirement. It will compress the width of the chart. Just a thought !!!! I used in horizontal bar graphs to adjust my graph size.

Highcharts columns - fixed border width, remove spacing between the bars

TL;DR Q: How do I force the fixed width of bar's border in Highstocks?
I need to display a histogram using Highcharts. I'd like to look it like this:
that is, no spaces between the bars, and the fixed width border.
Now I've tried to do the same with Highcharts, but it seems that some of the bars overlap each other, and the border width is not constant:
Here are the (significant) config options:
plotOptions: {
series : {
pointPadding : 0,
groupPadding : 0,
shadow : false,
borderWidth : 1,
borderColor : 'black'
}
}
What am I doing wrong?

The problem is not the gridLineWidth. You've set that correctly.
In addition you need to set the minorGridLineWidth that you have to set to 0
similar demo:
http://jsfiddle.net/P2Mv2/1/

Overlapping bars with JQPlot

I am creating a chart with JQPlot. The chart will contain several series, each series with two bars. The second bar of each series should be partly covered by the first bar. I tried to achieve this goal by setting barPadding to a negative value:
seriesDefaults:{
renderer:$.jqplot.BarRenderer,
rendererOptions: {
varyBarColor: false,
fillToZero: true,
barPadding: -5, // number of pixels between adjacent bars in the same group (same category or bin).
barDirection: 'vertical', // vertical or horizontal.
barWidth: 20, // width of the bars. null to calculate automatically.
shadowOffset: 0 // offset from the bar edge to stroke the shadow.
},
},
This indeed makes the bars overlapping but the second bar overlaps the first one.
I would like it vice versa.
Is this possible with JQPlot or does anyone know another library with this possibility?

There is no such configuration in jqplot. However there is a hacky way to do it by setting the z-index.
$('#chart .jqplot-series-canvas:first').css( "z-index", 99999);
Demo

Formatting legend and axis in Google Charts

I'm new with Google Charts and I am not able to obtain a fine result with the texts surrounding the graph.
This is how my chart looks:
As you can see, it does cut both Horizontal-Axis and Legends, so the final result is not as good as It could be. Is there a way to solve this? I've been reading the official documentation and some posts from here, but I haven't found the way to do this.
Recap: How do we modify the legend or the axis texts so they are fully visible?

After some time experimenting, I daresay it is not posible to choose how much part of the words on legend or axis you can show.
However, you can play with their sizes and position so you get -more or less- what we were looking for.
This is what can be done:
legend: {position: 'top', textStyle: {fontSize: 14}}
I've also made the image a little bit bigger so it fits the x-axis without problems (There was also the option of making its text smaller).
So doing this, this is what you get:

Its basically about setting your chart area vs width / height.
width: [yourChoice]px,
chartArea: {width: '50%'}
ref https://stackoverflow.com/a/6870732/661584
Also as #ArcDare says using the other available styling options such as font size etc

For optmized chart area,
chartArea: {'width': '90%', 'height': '60%'},
legend: { position: 'bottom' },
hAxis : { textStyle : { fontSize: 10} },
vAxis : { textStyle : { fontSize: 10} },
The trick is setting axis textStyle fontsize will enable better placement of legend on the bottom of the chart as the chart Area is about 60-70%
Feel free to use my custom Google Charts plugin which creates both chart and table.
https://github.com/cosmoarunn/gapiExt