Plugin Name

This library will generate a graph similar to Microsoft Excel.

How to use

To transform a table of data into a chart, simply create a MilkChart object of the chart type you wish passing in the table id and an object containing options for the chart.

Table structure:

<table id="chart">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Column A</th><th>Column B</th><th>Column C</th><th>Column D</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr><td>8.3</td><td>70</td><td>10.3</td><td>100</td></tr>
        <tr><td>8.6</td><td>65</td><td>10.3</td><td>125</td></tr>
        <tr><td>8.8</td><td>63</td><td>10.2</td><td>106</td></tr>
        <tr><td>10.5</td><td>72</td><td>16.4</td><td>162</td></tr>
        <tr><td>11.1</td><td>80</td><td>22.6</td><td>89</td></tr>
    
    </tbody>
    <tfoot>
        <tr>
            <td>Row 1</td><td>Row 2</td><td>Row 3</td><td>Row 4</td><td>Row 5</td>
        </tr>
    </tfoot>
</table>

• NOTE: The [tfoot] tag is optional. This is where row names are stored. If it's not important, they will be named Row # by default.

The JavaScript:

window.addEvent('domready', function() {
    var chart = new MilkChart.Column("chart");
})

MilkChart Options

You can pass several options to the MilkChart chart object constructors. Each of the options has a default value.

• width - (int: Defaults to 400) Width of chart in px
• height - (int: Defaults to 280) Height of chart in px
• padding - (int: Defaults to 12) Outer padding of chart in px
• font - (string: Defaults to "Verdana") Font to be used for labels
• fontColor - (string: Defaults to #000000) Color used for labels
• fontSize - (int: Defaults to 10) Font size in pt
• background - (string: Defaults to #ffffff) Background color of chart
• chartLineColor - (string: Defaults to #333333) Color of value lines
• chartLineWeight - (int: Defaults to 1) Line Wieght of value lines in px
• border - (bool: Defaults to true) Draws a border around edge chart (ignores padding)
• borderWeight - (int: Defaults to 1) Border width in px
• borderColor - (string: Defaults to #333333) Border color
• titleSize - (int: Defaults to 18) Size of title font in pt
• titleFont - (string: Defaults to "Verdana") Font used for title
• titleColor - (string: Defaults to #000000) Font color for title
• showRowNames - (bool: Defaults to true) Show the row labels on one of the axes
• showValues - (bool: Defaults to true) Show values on one of the axes
• showKey - (bool: Defaults to true) Shows the column labels
• useZero - (bool: Defaults to true) Always use 0 as the lowest value
• useFooter - (bool: Defaults to true) Get row labels from table footer

MilkChart Classes

These are the available classes MilkChart provides and their additional options.

• Column
  • columnBorder - (bool:Defaults to false) Draws borders around each column
  • columnBorderWeight - (int:Defaults to 2) Width of border in pixels
  • columnBorderColor - (string:Defaults to #000000) Color of the border
• Bar
• Line
  • showTicks - (bool:Defaults to false) Draw tick marks at each value
  • showLines - (bool:Defaults to true) Draw lines connecting values
  • lineWeight - (int: Defaults to 3) Line weight in px
• Scatter
  • showTicks - (bool:Defaults to true) Draw tick marks at each value
  • showLines - (bool:Defaults to false) Draw lines connecting values
• Pie
  • stroke - (bool Defaults to true) Stroke the pie chart
  • strokeWeight - (int: Defaults to 2) Stroke weight in px
  • strokeColor - (string: Defaults to "#000000") Font color on pie slices
  • shadow - (bool: Defaults to false) Draw a shadow under the pie chart
  • showPercentages - (bool: Defaults to true) Draw slice percentage
  • chartLineWeight - (int: Defaults to 2) Outline line weight in px
  • pieBorder - (bool: Defaults to false) Draw a border around pie

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