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Why itemSort is not triggered when I hover a dataset point in Chart.js?

I can't figure out why my console.log isn't triggered in the Chart.js tooltip itemSort function. Do I miss something ?

plugins: {
      legend: {
        display: false,
      },
      tooltip: {
        backgroundColor: "transparent",
        titleColor: "black",
        titleAlign: "center",
        bodyColor: "black",
        bodyAlign: "center",
        displayColors: false,
        callbacks: {
          label: (element) => element.raw,
        },
        itemSort: (elements) => {
          console.log("elements", elements);
          return elements;
        },
      },
    },
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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This is because by default the interaction mode is 'point' so it only shows a single value and thus can not be sorted. So chart.js does not call the method. If you make it another interaction mode like 'index' where it shows the tooltip for all datapoints at that data index it is getting called:

const options = {
  type: 'line',
  data: {
    labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
    datasets: [{
        label: '# of Votes',
        data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
        borderWidth: 1
      },
      {
        label: '# of Points',
        data: [7, 11, 5, 8, 3, 7],
        borderWidth: 1
      }
    ]
  },
  options: {
    plugins: {
      tooltip: {
        mode: 'index',
        itemSort: (e, x) => {
          console.log(e.raw, x.raw) // Dont log entire objects since stack does not like that
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

const ctx = document.getElementById('chartJSContainer').getContext('2d');
new Chart(ctx, options);
<body>
  <canvas id="chartJSContainer" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.7.0/chart.js"></script>
</body>

Edit:
From your comment on deleted answer if you want to change the order of the label and the value you should use the label callback instead of using the sort function

const options = {
  type: 'line',
  data: {
    labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
    datasets: [{
        label: '# of Votes',
        data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
        borderWidth: 1
      },
      {
        label: '# of Points',
        data: [7, 11, 5, 8, 3, 7],
        borderWidth: 1
      }
    ]
  },
  options: {
    plugins: {
      tooltip: {
        callbacks: {
          label: (e) => (`${e.formattedValue}, ${e.label}`)
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

const ctx = document.getElementById('chartJSContainer').getContext('2d');
new Chart(ctx, options);
<body>
  <canvas id="chartJSContainer" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.7.0/chart.js"></script>
</body>

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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