Chapter 2: Adjusting Intervals and Background (5)

fix the x-axis data labels and first data point touching the y-axis line

by JoeKuan

HTML

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
<body>
<div style="margin: 5px 60px 5px 5px; " id='container'></div>
</body>

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
       var chart = new Highcharts.Chart({
                chart: {
                renderTo: 'container',
                height: 250,
                spacingRight: 30 
            },
            title: {
                text: 'Market Data: Nasdaq 100'
            },
            subtitle: {
                text: 'May 11, 2012'
            },
            xAxis: {
               type: 'datetime',
               labels: {
                   formatter: function() {
                       return Highcharts.dateFormat('%I:%M %P', this.value);
                   },
                   y: 17
               },
               gridLineDashStyle: 'dot',
               gridLineWidth: 1,
               tickInterval: 60 * 60 * 1000,
               lineWidth: 2,
               lineColor: '#92A8CD',
               tickWidth: 3,
               tickLength: 6,
               tickColor: '#92A8CD',
        minPadding: 0.02,
        offset: 1
            },
            yAxis: {
                title: {
                    text: null
                },
                tickInterval: 10,
                minorTickInterval: 5,
                minorGridLineColor: '#ADADAD',
                minorGridLineDashStyle: '  dashdot',
                gridLineColor: '#8AB8E6',
                alternateGridColor: {
                    linearGradient: {
                        x1: 0, y1: 1,
                        x2: 1, y2: 1
                    },
                    stops: [ [0, '#FAFCFF' ],
                             [0.5, '#F5FAFF'] ,
                             [0.8, '#E0F0FF'] ,
                             [1, '#D6EBFF'] ]
                },
                 lineWidth: 2,
                 lineColor: '#92A8CD',
                 tickWidth: 3,
                 tickLength: 6,
                 tickColor: '#92A8CD',
                 minorTickLength: 3,
                 minorTickWidth: 1,
                 minorTickColor: '#D8D8D8'
            },
            legend: {
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