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How to display Tooltip without hovering pie chart with Chart.JS


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I'm using AdminLTE and chart.js for pie charts. The question is, can i make the text visible for each arc in the pie chart without hovering mouse? I don't use legends because some chart have a lot of labels in it.

If you have any other ways to show the all text labels i would appreciate it.

This is my current script for all my pie charts

<script>    
                $(function () {
                    //-------------
                    //- PIE CHART -
                    //-------------
                    // Get context with jQuery - using jQuery's .get() method.
                    var pieChartCanvas = $('#pieChart').get(0).getContext('2d')
                    var pieChart       = new Chart(pieChartCanvas)
                    var PieData        = [<?php echo $isiData; ?>]

                    var pieOptions     = {                      
                    //Boolean - Whether we should show a stroke on each segment
                    segmentShowStroke    : true,
                    //String - The colour of each segment stroke
                    segmentStrokeColor   : '#fff',
                    //Number - The width of each segment stroke
                    segmentStrokeWidth   : 2,
                    //Number - The percentage of the chart that we cut out of the middle
                    percentageInnerCutout: 0, // This is 0 for Pie charts
                    //Number - Amount of animation steps
                    animationSteps       : 150,
                    //String - Animation easing effect
                    animationEasing      : 'easeOutBack',
                    //Boolean - Whether we animate the rotation of the Doughnut
                    animateRotate        : true,
                    //Boolean - Whether we animate scaling the Doughnut from the centre
                    animateScale         : false,
                    //Boolean - whether to make the chart responsive to window resizing
                    responsive           : true,
                    // Boolean - whether to maintain the starting aspect ratio or not when responsive, if set to false, will take up entire container
                    maintainAspectRatio  : true,

                    //String - A legend template
                    legendTemplate       : '<ul class="<%=name.toLowerCase()%>-legend"><% for (var i=0; i<segments.length; i++){%><li><span style="background-color:<%=segments[i].fillColor%>"></span><%if(segments[i].label){%><%=segments[i].label%><%}%></li><%}%></ul>'
                    }

                    //Create pie or douhnut chart
                    // You can switch between pie and douhnut using the method below.
                    pieChart.Doughnut(PieData, pieOptions)
                })  
                </script>
<canvas id="pieChart" style="height:400px;"></canvas>

Solution

  • I've had a great time on google with this problem..

    Basically the way other developers solve your problem was creating a plugin which makes all the tooltips show up after the render

    I found a fiddle that fixes this problem..

    The fiddle is not mine..

    Credits goes to Suhaib Janjua

    // Show tooltips always even the stats are zero
    
    Chart.pluginService.register({
      beforeRender: function(chart) {
        if (chart.config.options.showAllTooltips) {
          // create an array of tooltips
          // we can't use the chart tooltip because there is only one tooltip per chart
          chart.pluginTooltips = [];
          chart.config.data.datasets.forEach(function(dataset, i) {
            chart.getDatasetMeta(i).data.forEach(function(sector, j) {
              chart.pluginTooltips.push(new Chart.Tooltip({
                _chart: chart.chart,
                _chartInstance: chart,
                _data: chart.data,
                _options: chart.options.tooltips,
                _active: [sector]
              }, chart));
            });
          });
    
          // turn off normal tooltips
          chart.options.tooltips.enabled = false;
        }
      },
      afterDraw: function(chart, easing) {
        if (chart.config.options.showAllTooltips) {
          // we don't want the permanent tooltips to animate, so don't do anything till the animation runs atleast once
          if (!chart.allTooltipsOnce) {
            if (easing !== 1)
              return;
            chart.allTooltipsOnce = true;
          }
    
          // turn on tooltips
          chart.options.tooltips.enabled = true;
          Chart.helpers.each(chart.pluginTooltips, function(tooltip) {
            tooltip.initialize();
            tooltip.update();
            // we don't actually need this since we are not animating tooltips
            tooltip.pivot();
            tooltip.transition(easing).draw();
          });
          chart.options.tooltips.enabled = false;
        }
      }
    });
    
    // Show tooltips always even the stats are zero
    
    
    var canvas = $('#myCanvas2').get(0).getContext('2d');
    var doughnutChart = new Chart(canvas, {
      type: 'doughnut',
      data: {
        labels: [
          "Success",
          "Failure"
        ],
        datasets: [{
          data: [45, 9],
          backgroundColor: [
            "#1ABC9C",
            "#566573"
          ],
          hoverBackgroundColor: [
            "#148F77",
            "#273746"
          ]
        }]
      },
      options: {
        // In options, just use the following line to show all the tooltips
        showAllTooltips: true
      }
    });
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.3.0/Chart.bundle.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    
    <div>
         <canvas id="myCanvas2" width="350" height="296"></canvas>
    </div>