Stack and group data Highcharts

by Sushil Mahajan

HTML

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

<div id="container" style="min-width: 400px; height: 400px; margin: 0 auto"></div>

JavaScript

$(function () {
        $('#container').highcharts({
    
            chart: {
                type: 'area'
            },

            legend:{
                enabled: true,
                layout: 'vertical'
            },
            
            title: {
                text: 'Total fruit consumtion, grouped by gender'
            },
    
            xAxis: {
                categories: ['Apples', 'Oranges', 'Pears', 'Grapes', 'Bananas']
            },
    
            yAxis: {
                allowDecimals: false,
                min: 0,
                title: {
                    text: 'Number of fruits'
                }
            },
    
            tooltip: {
                formatter: function() {
                    return '<b>'+ this.x +'</b><br/>'+
                        this.series.name +': '+ this.y +'<br/>'+
                        'Total: '+ this.point.stackTotal;
                }
            },
    
            plotOptions: {
                area: {
                    stacking: 'normal'
                }
            },
    
            series: [{
                id: '12',
                name: 'John and Joe (Group1)',
                data: [5, 3, 4, 7, 2],
                stack: 'male'
            }, {
                linkedTo:'12',
                name: 'Joe',
                data: [3, 4, 4, 2, 5],
                stack: 'male',
                showInLegend: 'true',
                legend: {
                    y: 12
                }
            }, {
                linkedTo:'12',
                name: 'John',
                data: [1,5, 10, 12, 5],
                stack: 'male',
                showInLegend: 'true'
            },
            {
                id: '13',
                name: 'Jane and Janet (Group2)',
                data: [2, 5, 6, 2, 1],
                stack: 'female'
            }, {
                linkedTo:'13',
                name: 'Janet',
                data: [3, 0, 4, 4, 3],
                stack: 'female',
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