Marker customization in EJ2 JavaScript Chart control

23 Jun 20237 minutes to read

By using the pointRender, you can customize the marker shape.

To Customize the marker shape, follow the given steps:

Step 1:

Customize the marker shape in each data point by using the pointRender event. Using this event, you can set the shape value to the argument.

var shapes = [
   'Diamond', 'Circle','Rectangle', 'Line', 'Triangle', 'Rectangle'
   ];
var shapeRender = function(args) {
 args.shape = shapes[args.point.index];
 }
var chart = new ej.charts.Chart({
     //Initializing Primary X Axis
        primaryXAxis: {
            title: 'Countries', valueType: 'Category',
            interval: 1
        },
        //Initializing Primary Y Axis
        primaryYAxis:
        {
            title: 'Penetration', rangePadding: 'None',
            labelFormat: '{value}%', minimum: 0,
            maximum: 75, interval: 15
        },
        //Initializing Chart Series
        series: [
            {
                type: 'Line',
                dataSource: [{ x: 'WW', y: 12, text: 'World Wide' },
                { x: 'EU', y: 5, text: 'Europe' },
                { x: 'APAC', y: 15, text: 'Pacific' },
                { x: 'LATAM', y: 6.4, text: 'Latin' },
                { x: 'MEA', y: 30, text: 'Africa' },
                { x: 'NA', y: 25.3, text: 'America' }],
                name: 'December 2007',
                marker: {
                    visible: true, width: 10, height: 10,
                    shape: 'Diamond', dataLabel: { name: 'text' }
                },
                xName: 'x', width: 2,
                yName: 'y',
            },

        ],
        //Initializing Chart title
        title: 'FB Penetration of Internet Audience',
        legendSettings: { visible: false },
        pointRender: shapeRender,
    width:'650px',
    height: '350px'
    }, '#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="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/32.1.19/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div class="col-sm-8">
            <div class="row">
                <div class="col-sm-4">  
                  <div id="container">
                    <div id="element" style="width:350px; height:350px;float:left">
                    </div>
                    <label id="lbl"></label>
                  </div>
                </div>
                <div class="col-sm-4" style="width:200px; height:350px;float: right">
                  <div id="Grid">
                  </div>
                </div>
            </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>