JavaScript/jQuery PieChart - tooltip

A tooltip is a miniature rectangle displaying values of a series point. A tooltip appears when the end-user hovers the cursor over a series point. You can enable/disable tooltips, change their appearance and format their text using fields of the tooltip configuration object.

See Also

• format - provides a comprehensive overview of formatting capabilities.
• Data Formatting - shows how to apply formatting to various widget elements.

This option supports the following colors:

• Hexadecimal colors
• RGB colors
• RGBA colors
• Predefined/cross-browser color names
• Predefined SVG colors

This option sets one color for all tooltips. You can specify a particular tooltip's color in the tooltip.customizeTooltip function.

The following table demonstrates how the corner's curvature depends on the cornerRadius value:

cornerRadius	Result
cornerRadius: 0
cornerRadius: 15
cornerRadius: 35

This option should be assigned a function returning a specific object. The following fields can be specified in this object.

• color
  Specifies the color of a tooltip.

• text
  Specifies the text displayed by a tooltip.

• html
  Specifies the HTML markup displayed by a tooltip.

  NOTE

  If you are going to use external resources (for example, images) in the markup, specify the size of the area they will occupy beforehand.

• fontColor
  Specifies the color of the text displayed by a tooltip.

• borderColor
  Specifies the color of the tooltip border.

When implementing the function for this option, you can use information about the tooltip's point. For example, you can access the argument or value of this point. To do this, use the following fields of the this object.

• value
  Specifies the value of the currently hovered point.
• valueText
  Specifies the value of the currently hovered point with applied formatting if the format property is specified.
• argument
  Specifies the argument value of the currently hovered point.
• argumentText
  Specifies the argument value of the currently hovered point with applied formatting if the argumentFormat property is specified.
• percent
  Specifies the percent value of the currently hovered point.
• percentText
  Specifies the percent value of the currently hovered point with percentPrecision (optional) applied.
• point
  Provides access to the hovered point. To learn more about the field and methods of the point object, refer to the Point topic in the "Chart Elements" reference section.

The function's parameter represents the same object as the this object. If appropriate, you can use the function's parameter to obtain the value that is currently represented by a tooltip.

To get general information on data formatting, refer to the Data Formatting topic.

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See the format section for details on accepted values.

See Also

• Data Formatting

This option accepts a value from 0 to 1, where 0 makes tooltips completely transparent, and 1 makes them opaque.

If the widget's container has the CSS z-index property specified, and tooltips are displayed incorrectly, configure their z-index using this option.