tutorial This short tutorial will show how you can make parts of any label super- or sub-script using amCharts 4’s in-line text formatting syntax. Enabling PREREQUISITE If you don’t know how square bracket text formatting works, make sure you read the “Visual formatting” section in our Text formatting article. Basically, a square bracket blocks in any […]
tutorial The defining characteristic of each donut, including donut charts, is its hole. It’s a space that can be used for good. This tutorial will show how we can easily add some labels inside it to display complementing information, such as sum of values for all the slices. Adding a label Most of the elements in […]
tutorial In our everyday charting we mainly use absolute values. However, sometimes we might need to show how specific value relates to other elements. In this case relative percent value is much more representative than absolute one. This tutorial will explain ways we can use such relative values. Intro Let’s start with a fairly simple stacked […]
tutorial This tutorial will explain how individual column labels (bullets) can be used as Category axis labels. The task During the course of this tutorial, we are going to give a fairly basic clustered column chart a makeup. Let’s do this step by step. Moving categories up First task is to move those year categories up […]
tutorial During the course of this article we’re going to learn how to automatically place labels over map polygons, as well as make them positioned just the right way. Base map As a polygon of our development, let’s use a map of the United States in an Albers USA projection. Series for polygons Setting up Polygon […]
tutorial Building column stacks is easy: just set stackable = true on each column series. This tutorial will show how we can display automatic total value of the whole stack on top of it. Base chart Here’s a base chart we’re going to start with. It’s already got several ColumnSeries stacked. It also has “label bullets” […]
tutorial Sometimes chart legend can get out of control size-wise, especially if you have long labels. This tutorial will show how you can get it back in check by capping the length of its labels. The problem Long labels will bloat up legend size. This is especially prominent where chart size is not very big: Even […]
tutorial Normally, labels for Pie chart’s slices are horizontal, and either arranged in columns or attached to the slice itself. This tutorial will show how you can make labels curve along the outer edge of the slice. Base chart Let’s take a super basic pie chart as our starting point. Making labels cool again To make […]
tutorial In amCharts 4 any SVG label can follow any curve. This tutorial will explain how it works and how you can spice up the look of your charts in various situations, using curved labels. The basics All text labels in amCharts 4 are represented by an object of type Label. To make a label follow […]
tutorial By default, labels on a Sankey Diagram will be truncated with an ellipsis if they are longer than 150 pixels. This tutorial explores other options for handling long labels. Base chart Here’s a Sankey Diagram with some overly long node names. All labels are cut off and not overly informative. Let’s see how we can […]