Class Legend

Turn automatic width for legend items on or off. If true, itemWidth is ignored. This setting takes into account the gap.

Set or get gap between legend items.

This can be optionally used to enable highlighting legends for the selections/filters for the chart.

Position legend horizontally instead of vertically.

Set or get legend item height.

Legend item width for horizontal legend.

Set or get the legend text function. The legend widget uses this function to render the legend text for each item. If no function is specified the legend widget will display the names associated with each group.

Example

// default legendText

legend.legendText(d => d.name)

// create numbered legend items
chart.legend(new Legend().legendText(function(d, i) { return i + '. ' + d.name; }))

// create legend displaying group counts
chart.legend(new Legend().legendText(function(d) { return d.name + ': ' d.data; }))

Maximum width for horizontal legend.

Maximum number of legend items to display

Set or get x coordinate for legend widget.

Set or get y coordinate for legend widget.