Bar - Custom Chart

by Roydon DSouza

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: 500px; height: 400px; margin: 0 auto"></div>

JavaScript

$(function () {
        $('#container').highcharts({
            chart: {
                type: 'column'
            },
            title: {
                text: 'World\'s largest cities per 2014'
            },
            subtitle: {
                text: 'Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population">Wikipedia</a>'
            },
            xAxis: {
                type: 'category',
                labels: {
                    rotation: -45,
                    style: {
                        fontSize: '13px',
                        fontFamily: 'Verdana, sans-serif'
                    },
                    formatter: function() {
                    return this.value.substring(0,3)+'...';
                    }
                }
            },
            yAxis: {
                min: 0,
                title: {
                    text: 'Population (millions)'
                }
            },
            legend: {
                enabled: false
            },
            tooltip: {
                pointFormat: 'Population in 2008: <b>{point.y:.1f} millions</b>',
            },
            series: [{
                name: 'Population',
                data: [
                    ['Shanghai', 23.7],
                    ['Lagos', 16,1],
                    ['Instanbul', 14.2],
                    ['Karachi', 14.0],
                    ['Mumbai', 12.5],
                    ['Moscow', 12.1],
                    ['São Paulo', 11.8],
                    ['Beijing', 11.7],
                    ['Guangzhou', 11.1],
                    ['Delhi', 11.1],
                    ['Shenzhen', 10.5],
                    ['Seoul', 10.4],
                    ['Jakarta', 10.0],
                    ['Kinshasa', 9.3],
                    ['Tianjin', 9.3],
                    ['Tokyo', 9.0],
                    ['Cairo', 8.9],
                    ['Dhaka', 8.9],
                    ['Mexico City', 8.9],
                    ['Lima', 8.9]
     ...