How to highlight the series using legend in Angular Column Charts?

Description

This article shows how to highlight the series using legend in Angular Column Charts.

Solution

The highlight operation is used to emphasize particular data point or series in a chart. The highlight settings can be enabled in Chart by using the highlightMode and highlightPattern in charts. To highlight the series using the legend, the enableHighlight property should be enabled in legendSettings of the chart.

Code Snippet

The following example shows how to highlight the series using the legend.

app.component.html

<ejs-chart id='chartcontainer' [legendSettings]='legendSettings' [highlightMode]='highlightMode' [highlightPattern]='highlightPattern'>
   <e-series-collection>
      <e-series [dataSource]='data1' type='Column' xName='x' yName='y' name='USA'>
      </e-series>
    </e-series-collection>
</ejs-chart>

app.component.ts

   public legendSettings: Object = {
       visible: true,
       enableHighlight: true,
   };
   public highlightMode: string = 'Point';
   public highlightPattern: string =  'DiagonalForward';

The following screenshot illustrates the output of the above code snippet

Hovering on legend

View Sample in Stackblitz

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning how to highlight the series using legend in Angular Column Chart.

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