Flags shapes and colors

author(s): Torstein Hønsi

by Umair Rafiq

HTML

<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/stock/highstock.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/stock/modules/data.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/stock/modules/exporting.js"></script>


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

JavaScript

Highcharts.getJSON('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/highcharts/[email protected]/samples/data/usdeur.json', function (data) {

    var year = new Date(data[data.length - 1][0]).getFullYear(); // Get year of last data point

    // Create the chart
    Highcharts.stockChart('container', {


        rangeSelector: {
            selected: 4
        },

        title: {
            text: 'USD to EUR exchange rate'
        },

        yAxis: {
            title: {
                text: 'Exchange rate'
            }
        },

        series: [{
            name: 'USD to EUR',
            data: data,
            id: 'dataseries',
            tooltip: {
                valueDecimals: 4
            }
        }, {
            type: 'flags',
            data: [{
                x: Date.UTC(year, 1, 22),
                title: 'K',
            }, {
                x: Date.UTC(year, 3, 28),
                title: 'Q',
                text: 'Shape: "squarepin"'
            }],
            onSeries: 'dataseries',
            shape: 'squarepin',
            width: 16
        }, {
            type: 'flags',
            data: [{
                x: Date.UTC(year, 2, 1),
                title: 'B',
                text: 'Shape: "circlepin"'
            }, {
                x: Date.UTC(year, 3, 1),
                title: '8K',
                text: 'Shape: "circlepin"'
            }],
            shape: 'circlepin',
            width: 16
        }, {
            type: 'flags',
            data: [{
                x: Date.UTC(year, 2, 10),
                title: 'EC',
                text: 'Shape: "flag"'
            }, {
                x: Date.UTC(year, 3, 11),
                title: 'EC',
                text: 'Shape: "flag"'
            }],
            color: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[0], // same as onSeries
            fillColor: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[0],
            onSeries: 'dataseries',
            width: 16,
            style: { // text style
               ...