Learning Highcharts [electronic resource].

ISBN:

9781849519090

9781849519083

Title:

Learning Highcharts [electronic resource].

Author:

Kuan, Joe.

Personal Author:

Kuan, Joe.

Publication Information:

Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (749 pages).

Series:

Community experience distilled

General Note:

Building a chart with multiple series types.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Learning Highcharts; Learning Highcharts; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. Web Charts; A short history of web charting; HTML image map (server-side technology); Java applet (client side) and servlet (server side).

Adobe Shockwave Flash (client side)The uprising of JavaScript and HTML5; HTML5 (SVG and canvas); SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics); Canvas; JavaScript charts on the market; jqPlot; amCharts; Ext JS 4 Charts; YUI 3 Charts; FusionCharts; JS Charts; Flot and Flotr; Why Highcharts?; Highcharts and JavaScript frameworks; Presentation; License; Simple API model; Documentations; Openness (feature request with user voice); Highcharts -- a quick tutorial; Directories structure; Summary; 2. Highcharts Configurations; Configuration structure; Understanding Highcharts layouts; Chart margins and spacings.

Chart label propertiesTitle and subtitle alignments; Legend alignment; Axis title alignment; Credits alignment; Experimenting with the automatic layout; Experimenting with the fixed layout; Framing the chart with axes; Accessing the axis data type; Adjusting intervals and background; Using plot lines and plot bands; Extending to multiple axes; Revisiting the series configuration; Exploring PlotOptions; Styling the tooltips; Formatting the tooltips in HTML; Using the callback handler; Applying a multiple series tooltip; Animating charts; Expanding colors with gradients; Summary.

3. Line, Area, and Scatter ChartsIntroducing line charts; Extending to multiple series line charts; Sketching an area chart; Mixing line and area series; Simulating a projection chart; Contrasting spline with step line; Extending to a stacked area chart; Plotting charts with missing data; Combining scatter and area series; Polishing a chart with an artistic style; Summary; 4. Bar and Column Charts; Introducing column charts; Overlapped column chart; Stacking and grouping a column chart; Mixing the stacked and single columns; Comparing the columns in stacked percentages.

Adjusting column colors and data labelsIntroducing bar charts; Giving the bar chart a simpler look; Constructing a mirror chart; Extending to a stacked mirror chart; Converting a single bar chart into a horizontal gauge chart; Sticking the charts together; Summary; 5. Pie Charts; Understanding the relationship of chart, pie, and series; Plotting simple pie charts -- single series; Configuring the pie with sliced off sections; Applying a legend to a pie chart; Plotting multiple pies in a chart -- multiple series; Preparing a donut chart -- multiple series.

Local Note:

eBooks on EBSCOhost

Subject Term:

JavaScript (Computer program language)

Web sites -- Design.

Client/server computing.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2012.

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Summary

Key Features Step-by-step instructions with real-live data to create bar charts, column charts and pie charts, to easily create artistic and professional quality charts Learn tips and tricks to create a variety of charts such as horizontal gauge charts, projection charts, and circular ratio charts Use and integrate Highcharts with jQuery Mobile and ExtJS 4, and understand how to run Highcharts on the server-side Add advanced reporting capabilities and understand how to select the right chart for your data Book Description Highcharts is a popular web charting software that produces stunning and smooth animated JavaScript and HTML5 SVG graphs. It is among the leading web charting software in the market and has been used in many different sectors ó from financial to social websites. Although it is built on top of jQuery, it is so simple to construct that you need little programming skill to create a simple web chart. Highcharts works on all modern browsers and is solely based on native browser technologies and doesn't require client side plugins like Flash or Java."Learning Highcharts" is a comprehensive tutorial with clear and practical examples. This book follows a step by step approach towards making artistic, presentable, or professional style charts and other types of charts that you won't find elsewhere. It also shows you how to integrate Highcharts with other popular frameworks, such as jQuery, jQuery Mobile, and ExtJS and even how to run it on the server side.The book starts off with an introduction to Highcharts and demonstrates usage of its rich set of options. This is followed by an introduction to each type of basic chart, beginning with simple illustrations and ending with more artistic and productive additions to the charts. The book then guides you how to use the Highcharts API and events handling which are important to build interactive applications. It then goes on to show you how to apply Highcharts onto a popular AJAX Framework or even jQuery, jQuery Mobile and Ext JS. Finally the book shows readers how to set up Highcharts running on server side. "Learning Highcharts" aims to teach you everything you need to know about Highcharts, and take the advanced leap from Flash to JavaScript, with this extremely productive and effective Charting software available, thus helping you build basic charts and even multiple series and axes charts. The book also shows you the flexibility of Highcharts and how to create other special charts. The programming side of APIs and event handling will benefit the readers in building advanced web applications with Highcharts. The book also guides readers on how to integrate Highcharts with popular frameworks such as jQuery Mobile and Ext JS. By the end of the book, you should be able to use Highcharts to suit your web page or application needs. What you will learn Learning the basicsóline, column, and pie charts and getting to grips with the latest features of Highcharts Producing artistic, professional and funky charts with examples Using the Highcharts APIs to produce interactive charts Creating horizontal gauge chart and projection charts Using Highcharts event handlers Using Highcharts with jQuery Mobile Using Highcharts with Ext JS 4 Running Highcharts on the server side Who this book is for

This book is both for beginners and advanced web developers who need to create interactive charts for their web applications. It primarily targets JavaScript Web developers who want to use the Highcharts library to prepare interactive and professional-quality charts and graphs for their applications quickly and easily. Prior experience with JavaScript is assumed.