I am trying to create a stacked bar chart (with chart.js 3.7+) which uses the entire canvas:
new Chart(..., {
type: 'bar',
data: {
labels: ['a','b','c','d','e'],
datasets: [{
backgroundColor: '#ff00ff',
data: [20,40,60,40,20],
},{
backgroundColor: '#00ff00',
data: [100,200,300,200,100],
}]
},
options: {
maintainAspectRatio: false,
responsive: true,
plugins: {
legend: { display: false },
},
scales: {
x: {
display: false,
stacked: true
},
y: {
display: true,
stacked: true
}
}
}
});
When I use a normal bar chart the graph is stretched to use up all the vertical space:
But when I stack the bars the combined longest bar doesn't use up all the vertical space:
How can I get the stacked bar chart to stretch to use all available vertical space?
See example here.
You could sum your arrays, find the max value in the resulting array and set the options.scales.y.max property with this value :
let data1 = [20,40,60,40,20];
let data2 = [100,200,300,200,100];
let sum = data1.map(function (num, idx) {
return num + data2[idx];
});
let max = Math.max(...sum);
var options =
{
maintainAspectRatio: false,
responsive: true,
plugins: {
legend: { display: false },
},
scales: {
x: {
display: false,
stacked: true
},
y: {
display: true,
stacked: true,
max: max
}
}
};
var mychart = new Chart(document.getElementById('mycanvas2').getContext('2d'), {
type: 'bar',
data: {
labels: ['a','b','c','d','e'],
datasets: [{
backgroundColor: '#ff00ff',
data: data1
},{
backgroundColor: '#00ff00',
data: data2
}]
},
options: options
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.7.0/chart.min.js"></script>
<div style="width:400px; height: 200px">
<canvas id="mycanvas2"></canvas>
</div>