Example: Basic Charts Implementation

This example shows how to use Charts to create a basic chart.

Creating a simple Chart instance

The Charts module allows you to create and customize different chart types. All you need to get started is a data provider (array), one line of code and a dom element (div) in which to render the Chart.

CSS

#mychart {
    margin:10px 10px 10px 10px;
    width:90%;
    max-width: 800px;
    height:400px;
}

HTML

<div id="mychart"></div>

JavaScript

YUI().use('charts', function (Y)
{
    var myDataValues = [
        {category:"5/1/2010", values:2000},
        {category:"5/2/2010", values:50},
        {category:"5/3/2010", values:400},
        {category:"5/4/2010", values:200},
        {category:"5/5/2010", values:5000}
    ];

    var mychart = new Y.Chart({dataProvider:myDataValues, render:"#mychart"});
});

The dataProvider attribute accepts either an array of object literals or a multi-dimensional array. Below is an alternative dataProvider source for the above chart.

var myDataValues = [
    ["5/1/2010", "5/2/2010", "5/3/2010", "5/4/2010", "5/5/2010"],
    [2000, 50, 400, 200, 5000]
];

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