Stacked Column in JavaScript (ES5) Chart control

08 May 2023 / 2 minutes to read

Stacked Column

To render a stacked column series, use series type as StackingColumn and inject StackingColumnSeries module using Chart.Inject(StackingColumnSeries) method.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

var chartData = [
    { x: '2014', y: 111.1, y1: 76.9, y2: 66.1, y3: 34.1 },
    { x: '2015', y: 127.3, y1: 99.5, y2: 79.3, y3: 38.2 },
    { x: '2016', y: 143.4, y1: 121.7, y2: 91.3, y3: 44.0 },
    { x: '2017', y: 159.9, y1: 142.5, y2: 102.4, y3: 51.6 },
    { x: '2018', y: 175.4, y1: 166.7, y2: 112.9, y3: 61.9 },
    { x: '2019', y: 189.0, y1: 182.9, y2: 122.4, y3: 71.5 },
    { x: '2020', y: 202.7, y1: 197.3, y2: 120.9, y3: 82.0 }
];
var chart = new ej.charts.Chart({
        primaryXAxis: {
            title: 'Years',
            interval: 1,
            valueType: 'Category'
        },
        primaryYAxis:
        {
            title: 'Sales in Billions',
            minimum: 0,
            maximum: 700,
            interval: 100,
            labelFormat: '{value}B',
        },
        series: [
            {
                dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y',
                //Series type as stacked column
                type: 'StackingColumn',
                name: 'UK',
            }, {
                dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y1',
                 type: 'StackingColumn', name: 'Germany',
            }, {
                dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y2',
                 type: 'StackingColumn', name: 'France',

            }, {
               dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y3',
                 type: 'StackingColumn', name: 'Italy',

            }
        ],
        title: 'Mobile Game Market by Country'
}, '#element');

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>EJ2 Animation</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="element"></div>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

Stacking Group

You can use the stackingGroup property to group the stacked columns and 100% stacked columns. Columns with same group name are stacked on top of each other.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

var chartData = [
    { x: '2014', y: 111.1, y1: 76.9, y2: 66.1, y3: 34.1 },
    { x: '2015', y: 127.3, y1: 99.5, y2: 79.3, y3: 38.2 },
    { x: '2016', y: 143.4, y1: 121.7, y2: 91.3, y3: 44.0 },
    { x: '2017', y: 159.9, y1: 142.5, y2: 102.4, y3: 51.6 },
    { x: '2018', y: 175.4, y1: 166.7, y2: 112.9, y3: 61.9 },
    { x: '2019', y: 189.0, y1: 182.9, y2: 122.4, y3: 71.5 },
    { x: '2020', y: 202.7, y1: 197.3, y2: 120.9, y3: 82.0 }
];
var chart = new ej.charts.Chart({
        primaryXAxis: {
            title: 'Years',
            interval: 1,
            valueType: 'Category'
        },
        primaryYAxis:
        {
            title: 'Sales in Billions',
            minimum: 0,
            maximum: 400,
            interval: 100,
            labelFormat: '{value}B',
        },
        series: [
            {
                dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y',
                type: 'StackingColumn', name: 'UK',
                //Stacking group for stacked column series
                stackingGroup: 'UKAndGermany'
            }, {
                dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y1',
                 type: 'StackingColumn', name: 'Germany', stackingGroup: 'UKAndGermany'
            }, {
                dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y2',
                 type: 'StackingColumn', name: 'France', stackingGroup: 'FranceAndItaly'

            }, {
               dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y3',
                 type: 'StackingColumn', name: 'Italy', stackingGroup: 'FranceAndItaly'

            }
        ],
        title: 'Mobile Game Market by Country'
}, '#element');

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>EJ2 Animation</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="element"></div>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

Series customization

The following properties can be used to customize the column series.

fill – Specifies the color of the series.
opacity – Specifies the opacity of fill.
dashArray – Specifies the dashes of series.
border – Specifies the color and width of series border.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

var chartData = [
    { x: '2014', y: 111.1, y1: 76.9, y2: 66.1, y3: 34.1 },
    { x: '2015', y: 127.3, y1: 99.5, y2: 79.3, y3: 38.2 },
    { x: '2016', y: 143.4, y1: 121.7, y2: 91.3, y3: 44.0 },
    { x: '2017', y: 159.9, y1: 142.5, y2: 102.4, y3: 51.6 },
    { x: '2018', y: 175.4, y1: 166.7, y2: 112.9, y3: 61.9 },
    { x: '2019', y: 189.0, y1: 182.9, y2: 122.4, y3: 71.5 },
    { x: '2020', y: 202.7, y1: 197.3, y2: 120.9, y3: 82.0 }
];
var chart = new ej.charts.Chart({
        primaryXAxis: {
            title: 'Years',
            interval: 1,
            valueType: 'Category'
        },
        primaryYAxis:
        {
            title: 'Sales in Billions',
            minimum: 0,
            maximum: 400,
            interval: 100,
            labelFormat: '{value}B',
        },
        series: [
            {
                dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y', dashArray: '2.2',
                //Series type as stacked column
                type: 'StackingColumn', border: { width: 1.5, color: 'blue'}
            }, {
                dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y1', dashArray: '2.2',
                 type: 'StackingColumn',border: { width: 1.5, color: 'yellow'}
            }, {
                dataSource: chartData, xName: 'x', yName: 'y2', dashArray: '2.2',
                 type: 'StackingColumn',border: { width: 1.5, color: 'red'}

            }
        ],
        title: 'Mobile Game Market by Country'
}, '#element');

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>EJ2 Animation</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="element"></div>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

Stacked Column in JavaScript (ES5) Chart control

Stacked Column

Stacking Group

Series customization

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