Highcharts Demo

author(s): Daniel Studencki

by Umair Rafiq

HTML

<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/timeline.js"></script>

<div id="container"></div>

CSS

#container {
    min-width: 400px;
    max-width: 600px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

JavaScript

Highcharts.chart('container', {
    chart: {
        zoomType: 'x',
        type: 'timeline'
    },
credits: {
        enabled: false
    },
    xAxis: {
        type: 'datetime',
        visible: true
    },
    yAxis: {
        gridLineWidth: 1,
        title: null,
        labels: {
            enabled: false
        }
    },
    legend: {
        enabled: false
    },
    title: {
        text: 'Timeline of Space Exploration'
    },
    subtitle: {
        text: 'Info source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_exploration">www.wikipedia.org</a>'
    },
    tooltip: {
        style: {
            width: 300
        }
    },
    series: [{
        dataLabels: {
            allowOverlap: false,
            format: '<span style="color:{point.color}">● </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" > ' +
                '{point.x:%d %b %Y}</span><br/>{point.label}'
        },
        marker: {
            symbol: 'circle'
        },
        data: [{
            x: Date.UTC(1951, 5, 22),
            name: 'First dogs in space',
            label: 'First dogs in space',
            color: 'rgb(247, 163, 92)', 
            description: "Dezik and Tsygan were the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight on 22 July 1951. Both dogs were recovered unharmed after travelling to a maximum altitude of 110 km."
        }, {
            x: Date.UTC(1957, 9, 4),
            name: 'First artificial satellite',
            label: 'First artificial satellite',
            color: 'rgb(247, 163, 92)', 
            description: "Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957, orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere."
        }, {
            x: Date.UTC(1959, 0, 4),
            color: 'rgb(247, 163, 92)', 
            name: 'First artificial satellite to reach the Moon',
            label: 'First...