Answer to Stack Overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40653131/highcharts-disable-allowpointselect-for-only-one-pie-slice

Mike Zavarello

HTML

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

<div id="container" style="min-width: 310px; height: 400px; max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto"></div>

JavaScript

$(function () {
  Highcharts.chart('container', {
    chart: {
      plotBackgroundColor: null,
      plotBorderWidth: null,
      plotShadow: false,
      type: 'pie'
    },
    title: {
      text: 'Browser market shares January, 2015 to May, 2015'
    },
    tooltip: {
      pointFormat: '{series.name}: <b>{point.percentage:.1f}%</b>'
    },
    plotOptions: {
      pie: {
        allowPointSelect: false,
        cursor: 'pointer',
        dataLabels: {
          enabled: true,
          format: '<b>{point.name}</b>: {point.percentage:.1f} %',
          style: {
            color: (Highcharts.theme && Highcharts.theme.contrastTextColor) || 'black'
          }
        }
      }
    },
    series: [{
      name: 'Brands',
      colorByPoint: true,
      data: [{
        name: 'Microsoft Internet Explorer',
        y: 56.33
      }, 
      // pie slice on which you want to disable selections
      {
        name: 'Chrome',
        y: 24.03,
        // add event to prevent this slice from being selectable by the user
        events : {
          click: function(e){
            e.preventDefault();		// prevent any action from occuring on "click" event
          }
        }
      }, 
      {
        name: 'Firefox',
        y: 10.38
      }, {
        name: 'Safari',
        y: 4.77
      }, {
        name: 'Opera',
        y: 0.91
      }, {
        name: 'Proprietary or Undetectable',
        y: 0.2
      }]
    }]
  });
});