Answer to Stack Overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37598587/hightcharts-remove-alphabetical-order

author(s): Michael Zavarello

HTML

<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
<div id="container" style="height: 300px"></div>

JavaScript

$(function () {
    $('#container').highcharts({

        chart: {
            type: 'column'
        },

        title: {
            text: 'Legend index demonstrated'
        },

        xAxis: {
            categories: ['High','Very high','Moderate','Low','Very low']
        },
        
        series: [{
            data: [8,1,1,3,7]
        }]

    });
});