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Highcharts Display Pie Chart with Legends

The following example demonstrates how to display a pie chart with legends.

We have already learned the basic configuration syntax of Highcharts in previous chapters. Now, let's look at other configurations.

Configuration

Series Configuration

Set the type property of the series to pie. The series.type describes the type of data series. The default value is "line".

var series = {
   type: 'pie'
};

plotOptions

Use the plotOptions.pie.showInLegend property to set whether to display the legend.

var plotOptions = {
   pie: {
      allowPointSelect: true,
      cursor: 'pointer',
      dataLabels: {
         enabled: false           
      },
      showInLegend: true
   }
};

Example

Filename: highcharts_pie_legends.htm

<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Highcharts Tutorial | tutorialpro.org(tutorialpro.org)</title>
<script src="http://apps.bdimg.com/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container" style="width: 550px; height: 400px; margin: 0 auto"></div>
<script language="JavaScript">
$(document).ready(function() {  
   var chart = {
       plotBackgroundColor: null,
       plotBorderWidth: null,
       plotShadow: false
   };
   var title = {
      text: 'Browser market shares at a specific website, 2014'   
   };      
   var tooltip = {
      pointFormat: '{series.name}: <b>{point.percentage:.1f}%</b>'
   };
   var plotOptions = {
      pie: {
         allowPointSelect: true,
         cursor: 'pointer',
         dataLabels: {
            enabled: false           
         },
         showInLegend: true
      }
   };
   var series= [{
      type: 'pie',
      name: 'Browser share',
      data: [
         ['Firefox',   45.0],
         ['IE',       26.8],
         {
            name: 'Chrome',
            y: 12.8,
            sliced: true,
            selected: true
         },
         ['Safari',    8.5],
         ['Opera',     6.2],
         ['Others',   0.7]
      ]
   }];     

   var json = {};   
   json.chart = chart; 
   json.title = title;     
   json.tooltip = tooltip;  
   json.series = series;
   json.plotOptions = plotOptions;
   $('#container').highcharts(json);  
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

Try it »

The output of the above example is:

Highcharts Pie Charts

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