Colored horizontal bands as chart background
HTML
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi?fake=.js"></script>
<div id="chart_div"></div>
<div id="creativeCommons" style="text-align: center; width: 400px;">
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource" property="dct:title" rel="dct:type">Code to add colored horizontal bands as a chart background</span> by <span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" property="cc:attributionName">Andrew Gallant</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.
</div>
JavaScript
function drawChart () {
var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
data.addColumn('string', 'Category');
data.addColumn('number', 'Value');
data.addColumn('number', 'color band 1');
data.addRows([
['', null, 50], // extra first row
['Foo', 60, 50],
['Bar', 70, 50],
['Baz', 30, 50],
['', null, 50] // extra last row
]);
var view = new google.visualization.DataView(data);
view.setColumns([{
type: 'number',
label: data.getColumnLabel(0),
calc: function (dt, row) {
return {v: row, f: dt.getValue(row, 0)};
}
}, 1, 2]);
// build list of axis labels
var ticks = [];
for (var i = 1; i < view.getNumberOfRows() - 1; i++) {
ticks.push({
v: view.getValue(i, 0),
f: view.getFormattedValue(i, 0)
});
}
// get the range of values in the view
var range = view.getColumnRange(0);
var chart = new google.visualization.ComboChart(document.getElementById('chart_div'));
chart.draw(view, {
height: 400,
width: 600,
hAxis: {
viewWindow: {
min: range.min,
max: range.max
},
ticks: ticks
},
vAxis: {
minValue: 0,
maxValue: 100
},
series: {
0: {
type: 'bars'
},
1: {
lineWidth: 0,
type: 'area',
visibleInLegend: false,
enableInteractivity: false
}
}
});
}
google.load('visualization', '1', {packages: ['corechart'], callback: drawChart});