printing pie's dataLabels numbers with commas

Question

I'm trying to print numbers with commas (showing 9,000 instand of just 9000), this is the way I'm setting the format format: '{point.name}: {point.y}'

I cant find a way to get {point.y} into a function that will return the wanted result, I tried this way format: '{point.name}: '+ numberWithCommas(point.y) but then of course point is not defined I'm not sure how to handle it, any direction how can I make it work ?

thanks

Answer 1

You need to do two things:

• set separator:

  Highcharts.setOptions({
    lang: {
      decimalPoint: '.',
      thousandsSep: ','
    }
  });
  

• set point format, to use that separator:

  format: '{point.name}: {point.y:,.0f}'
  

More about formatting string in Highcharts can be found in the DOCs ;)

And live demo.