Appearance in JavaScript (ES5) Sparkline control

30 Mar 2023 / 3 minutes to read

The appearance of the sparkline can be customized using margin, containerArea border, and containerArea background.

Sparkline border

The containerArea border of the sparkline is used to render border to cover sparkline area.

The following code example shows the sparkline with overall border.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

//Initialize Sparkline component
var sparklineInstance = new ej.charts.Sparkline({
    // To render border around the sparkline
    containerArea: {
        border: { color: '#033e96', width: 2 }
    },
    border: { color: '#033e96', width: 1 },
    height: '200px',
    width: '350px',
    type: 'Area',
    fill: '#b2cfff',
    dataSource: [3, 6, 4, 1, 3, 2, 5]
});
//Render initialized Sparkline
sparklineInstance.appendTo("#element");

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>Essential JS 2 for Sparkline </title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for Sparkline UI Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-charts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container" style="margin-top: 15%;">
            <div class="spark" id="element" align="center"></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>

Sparkline padding

Padding is used to specify padding value between container and sparkline. By default, padding value of the sparkline is 5. Sparkline padding values are specified by the left, right, top, and bottom.

The following code example shows the sparkline with overall padding is set to 20.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

//Initialize Sparkline component
var sparklineInstance = new ej.charts.Sparkline({
    containerArea: {
        border: { color: '#033e96', width: 2 }
    },
    // To render sparkline with padding
    padding: { left: 20, right: 20, bottom: 20, top: 20},
    border: { color: '#033e96', width: 1 },
    height: '200px',
    width: '350px',
    type: 'Area',
    fill: '#b2cfff',
    dataSource: [3, 6, 4, 1, 3, 2, 5]
});
//Render initialized Sparkline
sparklineInstance.appendTo("#element");

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>Essential JS 2 for Sparkline </title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for Sparkline UI Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-charts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container" style="margin-top: 15%;">
            <div class="spark" id="element" align="center"></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>

Sparkline area customization

The background color of the sparkline area can be customized using the containerArea background color. By default, the sparkline background color is transparent.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

//Initialize Sparkline component
var sparklineInstance = new ej.charts.Sparkline({
    containerArea: {
        border: { color: '#033e96', width: 2 },
        // To render sparkline with background
        background: '#eff1f4',
    },
    padding: { left: 20, right: 20, bottom: 20, top: 20},
    border: { color: '#033e96', width: 2 },
    height: '200px',
    width: '350px',
    type: 'Area',
    fill: '#b2cfff',
    dataSource: [3, 6, 4, 1, 3, 2, 5]
});
//Render initialized Sparkline
sparklineInstance.appendTo("#element");

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>Essential JS 2 for Sparkline </title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for Sparkline UI Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-charts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container" style="margin-top: 15%;">
            <div class="spark" id="element" align="center"></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>

Sparkline theme

Datalabel and trackline colors of the sparkline will be changed based on theme. For example, for dark theme, the color of datalabel and trackline should be white; for light theme, their value should be black. The possible values for sparkline theme are Material, Fabric, Bootstrap, and Highcontrast.

The following code example shows the color for datalabel and trackline is set to white for dark theme.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

//Initialize Sparkline component
var sparklineInstance = new ej.charts.Sparkline({
    // To specify theme
    theme: 'Highcontrast',
    dataLabelSettings: { visible: ['All']},
    tooltipSettings: {
        trackLineSettings: { visible: true }
    },
    axisSettings: {
        minX: -1, maxX: 7
    },
    lineWidth: 3,
    border: { color: 'transparent', width: 2 },
    height: '200px',
    width: '350px',
    type: 'Line',
    fill: '#007dd1',
    dataSource: [3, 6, 4, 1, 3, 2, 5]
});
//Render initialized Sparkline
sparklineInstance.appendTo("#element");

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>Essential JS 2 for Sparkline </title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for Sparkline UI Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-charts/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container" style="margin-top: 15%;">
            <div class="spark" id="element" align="center"></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>

Contents

Sparkline border
Sparkline padding
Sparkline area customization
Sparkline theme

Contents

Sparkline border
Sparkline padding
Sparkline area customization
Sparkline theme