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Asked: 2026-05-23T16:51:15+00:00

Is it possible to attach an onclick method to the elements within a Google

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Is it possible to attach an onclick method to the elements within a Google Visualization line chart? For example, if a user clicks on point within the chart I want to send the user to a page with more details. I’ve gone all through the documentation and can’t find an example of how to do this.

I see that there are methods for events (from the documentation) but with no clear example it’s not making much sense.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can do this using a ‘select’ event, which will be triggered each time a user clicks on a point on the line chart. I’ve included a working example below, including the redirect with a couple of values. The Google code playground has a nice example of how to use event handlers on a table – the same type of functionality can be used across most of the visualizations.

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      google.load('visualization', '1.1', {packages: ['barchart']});
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      function drawVisualization() {
        // Create and populate the data table.
        var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
        data.addColumn('string', 'Year');
        data.addColumn('number', 'Sales');
        data.addColumn('number', 'Expenses');
        data.addRows(4);
        data.setValue(0, 0, '2004');
        data.setValue(0, 1, 1000);
        data.setValue(0, 2, 400);
        data.setValue(1, 0, '2005');
        data.setValue(1, 1, 1170);
        data.setValue(1, 2, 460);
        data.setValue(2, 0, '2006');
        data.setValue(2, 1, 660);
        data.setValue(2, 2, 1120);
        data.setValue(3, 0, '2007');
        data.setValue(3, 1, 1030);
        data.setValue(3, 2, 540);

        chart = new google.visualization.LineChart(document.getElementById('visualization'));
        chart.draw(data, {width: 400, height: 240, title: 'Company Performance',
                          vAxis: {title: 'Year', titleTextStyle: {color: 'red'}}
                         });

        // a click handler which grabs some values then redirects the page
        google.visualization.events.addListener(chart, 'select', function() {
          // grab a few details before redirecting
          var selection = chart.getSelection();
          var row = selection[0].row;
          var col = selection[0].column;
          var year = data.getValue(row, 0);
          location.href = 'http://www.google.com?row=' + row + '&col=' + col + '&year=' + year;
        });

      }
      google.setOnLoadCallback(drawVisualization);
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="visualization" style="width: 600px; height: 400px;"></div>
  </body>
</html>
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