Highcharts Demo

author(s): Torstein Hønsi

HTML

<script src="http://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>

<div id="container" style="height: 400px"></div>

CSS

.highcharts-axis span {
   float:left;
   width:300px;
}

JavaScript

$(function () {
    var chart = new Highcharts.Chart({
    
        chart: {
            renderTo: 'container',
            type: 'column'
        },
    
        xAxis: {
            categories: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']
        },
        
        yAxis: {
        
            title: {
                text: 'Some extremely long text that should not shift over the grap',
                useHTML: true,
                offset:60,
                style: {
                    whiteSpace: 'normal'
                }
            }
        },
    
        series: [{
            data: [29.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0, 135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6, 54.4]
        }]
    
    });
});