[javascript] How to add label in chart.js for pie chart

I am displaying Pie chart. But how to Display labels in pie charts.

Below is the chart.js code for pie chart.

this.Pie = function(data, options) {

  chart.Pie.defaults = {
    segmentShowStroke: true,
    segmentStrokeColor: "#fff",
    segmentStrokeWidth: 2,
    animation: true,
    animationSteps: 100,
    animationEasing: "easeOutBounce",
    animateRotate: true,
    animateScale: false,
    onAnimationComplete: null
  };

  var config = (options) ? mergeChartConfig(chart.Pie.defaults, options) : chart.Pie.defaults;

  return new Pie(data, config, context);
};

and below is the code of html file for displaying pie chart

code:

var data = [{
  value: 20,
  color: "#637b85"
}, {
  value: 30,
  color: "#2c9c69"
}, {
  value: 40,
  color: "#dbba34"
}, {
  value: 10,
  color: "#c62f29"
}];

var canvas = document.getElementById("hours");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
new Chart(ctx).Pie(data);

This question is related to javascript charts

The answer is


EDIT: http://jsfiddle.net/nCFGL/223/ My Example.

You should be able to like follows:

var pieData = [{
    value: 30,
    color: "#F38630",
    label: 'Sleep',
    labelColor: 'white',
    labelFontSize: '16'
  },
  ...
];

Include the Chart.js located at:

https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js/pull/35


For those using newer versions Chart.js, you can set a label by setting the callback for tooltips.callbacks.label in options.

Example of this would be:

var chartOptions = {
    tooltips: {
        callbacks: {
            label: function (tooltipItem, data) {
                return 'label';
            }
        }
    }
}

Rachel's solution is working fine, although you need to use the third party script from raw.githubusercontent.com

By now there is a feature they show on the landing page when advertisng the "modular" script. You can see a legend there with this structure:

<div class="labeled-chart-container">
    <div class="canvas-holder">
        <canvas id="modular-doughnut" width="250" height="250" style="width: 250px; height: 250px;"></canvas>
    </div>

<ul class="doughnut-legend">
    <li><span style="background-color:#5B90BF"></span>Core</li>
    <li><span style="background-color:#96b5b4"></span>Bar</li>
    <li><span style="background-color:#a3be8c"></span>Doughnut</li>
    <li><span style="background-color:#ab7967"></span>Radar</li>
    <li><span style="background-color:#d08770"></span>Line</li>
    <li><span style="background-color:#b48ead"></span>Polar Area</li>
</ul>
</div>

To achieve this they use the chart configuration option legendTemplate

legendTemplate : "<ul class=\"<%=name.toLowerCase()%>-legend\"><% for (var i=0; i<segments.length; i++){%><li><span style=\"background-color:<%=segments[i].fillColor%>\"></span><%if(segments[i].label){%><%=segments[i].label%><%}%></li><%}%></ul>"

You can find the doumentation here on chartjs.org This works for all the charts although it is not part of the global chart configuration.

Then they create the legend and add it to the DOM like this:

var legend = myPie.generateLegend();
$("#legend").html(legend);

Sample See also my JSFiddle sample


It is not necessary to use another library like newChart or use other people's pull requests to pull this off. All you have to do is define an options object and add the label wherever and however you want it in the tooltip.

var optionsPie = {
    tooltipTemplate: "<%= label %> - <%= value %>"
}

If you want the tooltip to be always shown you can make some other edits to the options:

 var optionsPie = {
        tooltipEvents: [],
        showTooltips: true,
        onAnimationComplete: function() {
            this.showTooltip(this.segments, true);
        },
        tooltipTemplate: "<%= label %> - <%= value %>"
    }

In your data items, you have to add the desired label property and value and that's all.

data = [
    {
        value: 480000,
        color:"#F7464A",
        highlight: "#FF5A5E",
        label: "Tobacco"
    }
];

Now, all you have to do is pass the options object after the data to the new Pie like this: new Chart(ctx).Pie(data,optionsPie) and you are done.

This probably works best for pies which are not very small in size.

Pie chart with labels


Use ChartNew.js instead of Chart.js

...

So, I have re-worked Chart.js. Most of the changes, are associated to requests in "GitHub" issues of Chart.js.

And here is a sample http://jsbin.com/lakiyu/2/edit

var newopts = {
    inGraphDataShow: true,
    inGraphDataRadiusPosition: 2,
    inGraphDataFontColor: 'white'
}
var pieData = [
    {
        value: 30,
        color: "#F38630",
    },
    {
       value: 30,
       color: "#F34353",
    },
    {
        value: 30,
        color: "#F34353",
    }
]
var pieCtx = document.getElementById('pieChart').getContext('2d');
new Chart(pieCtx).Pie(pieData, newopts);

It even provides a GUI editor http://charts.livegap.com/

So sweet.