Horizontal Bar Chart JS

Horizontal Bar Chart JS

How to create a horizontal bar chart in Chart JS 3. Chart JS 3 had a breaking change regarding to the horizontal bar chart type. In Chart JS 2 you could specify the chart type to horizontal. This has been removed as the difference of an horizontal bar and a vertical bar is minimal. The key difference is the position of the labels in the axis. To understand how to do this we will explore the indexAxis which has been added in Chart JS 3.

We will create a simple horizontal bar chart js. Basically converting the bar chart that we have into a horizontal version. This is a horizontal bar chart js example that would be perfect for practicing the new changes in Chart JS 3.

Let's explore how!

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[XoyTech]

Hello, your videos are very helpful...!!! Thank you, thank you very much...!!!

[rp]

Can you please share an example of creating a horizontal bar chart with data structures? Apparently, the examples in the documentation only work for non-datastrucuture charts.

[emselman]

Ohhh it was very helpful for me you.... !!