JavaScript/jQuery Charts - Point Selection API

This demo shows how easily you can access a necessary chart series and select a specific point in it using the API.

Backend API

$(() => { const chart = $('#chart').dxChart({ dataSource, rotated: true, title: { text: 'Most Popular US Cat Breeds', }, commonSeriesSettings: { argumentField: 'breed', type: 'bar', }, series: { valueField: 'count', name: 'breeds', color: '#a3d6d2', selectionStyle: { color: '#ec2e7a', hatching: { direction: 'none' }, }, }, legend: { visible: false, }, export: { enabled: true, }, onPointClick(e) { const point = e.target; if (point.isSelected()) { point.clearSelection(); } else { point.select(); } }, }).dxChart('instance'); chart.getSeriesByPos(0).getPointsByArg('Siamese')[0].select(); });

<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> <head> <title>DevExtreme Demo</title> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" /> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script>window.jQuery || document.write(decodeURIComponent('%3Cscript src="js/jquery.min.js"%3E%3C/script%3E'))</script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn3.devexpress.com/jslib/25.1.6/css/dx.light.css" /> <script src="js/dx.all.js?v=25.1.6"></script> <script src="data.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> <script src="index.js"></script> </head> <body class="dx-viewport"> <div class="demo-container"> <div id="chart"></div> </div> </body> </html>

#chart { height: 440px; }

const dataSource = [{ breed: 'Domestic Shorthair', count: 62942, }, { breed: 'American Shorthair', count: 38287, }, { breed: 'Domestic Medium Hair', count: 15652, }, { breed: 'Domestic Long Hair', count: 13670, }, { breed: 'Siamese', count: 13377, }, { breed: 'Maine Coon', count: 11254, }, { breed: 'Persian', count: 7198, }, { breed: 'Russian Blue', count: 3569, }, { breed: 'Himalayan', count: 3755, }, { breed: 'Ragdoll', count: 3426, }, { breed: 'Bengal', count: 2966, }, { breed: 'Manx', count: 2391, }, { breed: 'British Shorthair', count: 2329, }, { breed: 'Norwegian Forest Cat', count: 1817, }, { breed: 'Bombay', count: 1486, }];