Question

My jqPlot graph contains 200 vertical bars. I colour the shorted bar in green, the longest in red and other in yellow.

If I do

pointLabels: {
    show: true
}

then I get 200 point labels, which are all squashed together and not readable.

Is it possible to label only the shortest and the longest bars?

I’ve read this page but been unable to find a solution:

http://www.jqplot.com/docs/files/plugins/jqplot-pointLabels-js.html#$.jqplot.PointLabels.seriesLabelIndex

Answer 1

Why don’t you when passing ‘ticks’ to the chart set some ticks to empty string "".
Also I recommend you using this settings to rotate your labels of the ticks:

tickRenderer: $.jqplot.CanvasAxisTickRenderer,
tickOptions: {
  angle: -45
}