[javascript] Click events on Pie Charts in Chart.js

Update: As @Soham Shetty comments, getSegmentsAtEvent(event) only works for 1.x and for 2.x getElementsAtEvent should be used.

.getElementsAtEvent(e)

Looks for the element under the event point, then returns all elements at the same data index. This is used internally for 'label' mode highlighting.

Calling getElementsAtEvent(event) on your Chart instance passing an argument of an event, or jQuery event, will return the point elements that are at that the same position of that event.

canvas.onclick = function(evt){
    var activePoints = myLineChart.getElementsAtEvent(evt);
    // => activePoints is an array of points on the canvas that are at the same position as the click event.
};

Example: https://jsfiddle.net/u1szh96g/208/


Original answer (valid for Chart.js 1.x version):

You can achieve this using getSegmentsAtEvent(event)

Calling getSegmentsAtEvent(event) on your Chart instance passing an argument of an event, or jQuery event, will return the segment elements that are at that the same position of that event.

From: Prototype Methods

So you can do:

$("#myChart").click( 
    function(evt){
        var activePoints = myNewChart.getSegmentsAtEvent(evt);           
        /* do something */
    }
);  

Here is a full working example:

<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.0.2.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="Chart.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            var data = [
                {
                    value: 300,
                    color:"#F7464A",
                    highlight: "#FF5A5E",
                    label: "Red"
                },
                {
                    value: 50,
                    color: "#46BFBD",
                    highlight: "#5AD3D1",
                    label: "Green"
                },
                {
                    value: 100,
                    color: "#FDB45C",
                    highlight: "#FFC870",
                    label: "Yellow"
                }
            ];

            $(document).ready( 
                function () {
                    var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart").getContext("2d");
                    var myNewChart = new Chart(ctx).Pie(data);

                    $("#myChart").click( 
                        function(evt){
                            var activePoints = myNewChart.getSegmentsAtEvent(evt);
                            var url = "http://example.com/?label=" + activePoints[0].label + "&value=" + activePoints[0].value;
                            alert(url);
                        }
                    );                  
                }
            );
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <canvas id="myChart" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
    </body>
</html>

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