Highcharts - Interactive charting library written in pure JavaScript

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.

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It works in all modern browsers including the iPhone and Internet Explorer from version 6. Standard browsers use the Canvas element and in some cases SVG for the graphics rendering. In Internet Explorer graphics are drawn using VML.

Highcharts is solely based on native browser technologies and doesn’t require client side plugins like Flash or Java. Furthermore you don’t need to install anything on your server. No PHP or ASP.NET. Highcharts needs three JS files to run: The highcharts.js core, a canvas emulator for IE, and either the jQuery or the MooTools framework. One of these is most likely already in use in your

On hovering the chart Highcharts can display a tooltip text with information on each point and series. The tooltip follows as the user moves the mouse over the graph, and great efforts have been taken to make it stick to the nearest point as well as making it easy to read a point that is below another point. web page.

Requirements: Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://www.highcharts.com/demo/
License: Creative Commons License

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2 Comments

  1. cruisine

    08.09.2010

    so..why dont u write a good tutorial on how to combine highchart with cakephp ?
    and one thing..ur plugin below (tweets,retweet,digg,etc) are very messy..it blocked my eyes to look around ur blog..
    tq

    • Mufti Ali

      08.09.2010

      Hi Cruisine, thanks for your suggestion