Legend

28 Jun 20173 minutes to read

Legend is a control used to summarize the range of colors in HeatMap. This gives visual guideline for mapping between value and color.

##Create Legend

Legend can be created with color mapping as shown below.

html

<div ej-heatmaplegend id="heatmap_legend" e-colormappingcollection="colorMappingCollection" e-height="50px" e-width="75%" e-showlabel="true">
    <div e-colormappingcollection>
        <div e-colormapping e-value="0" e-color="#8ec8f8"></div>
        <div e-colormapping e-value="100" e-color="#0d47a1"></div>
    </div>
</div>

javascript

syncApp.controller('heatmapCtrl', function ($scope) {
});

Resultant legend will be like following image.

##Legend Mode

There are two modes for Legend

Gradient
List

###Gradient:

html

<div ej-heatmaplegend id="heatmap_legend" e-colormappingcollection="colorMappingCollection" e-height="50px" e-width="75%" e-showlabel="true" e-legendmode="ej.heatmap.legendmode.gradient">
    <div e-colormappingcollection>
        <div e-colormapping e-value="0" e-color="#8ec8f8"></div>
        <div e-colormapping e-value="100" e-color="#0d47a1"></div>
    </div>
</div>

javascript

syncApp.controller('heatmapCtrl', function ($scope) {
});

###List:

html

<div ej-heatmaplegend id="heatmap_legend" e-colormappingcollection="colorMappingCollection" e-height="50px" e-width="75%" e-showlabel="true" e-legendmode="ej.HeatMap.LegendMode.List">
    <div e-colormappingcollection>
        <div e-colormapping e-value="0" e-color="#8ec8f8"></div>
        <div e-colormapping e-value="100" e-color="#0d47a1"></div>
    </div>
</div>

javascript

syncApp.controller('heatmapCtrl', function ($scope) {
});

##Orientation

There are 2 types of Orientation, applicable for Gradient and List Mode

Horizontal
Vertical

###Horizontal:

html

<div ej-heatmaplegend id="heatmap_legend" e-colormappingcollection="colorMappingCollection" e-height="50px" e-width="75%" e-showlabel="true" e-legendmode="ej.HeatMap.LegendMode.List">
    <div e-colormappingcollection>
        <div e-colormapping e-value="0" e-color="#8ec8f8"></div>
        <div e-colormapping e-value="100" e-color="#0d47a1"></div>
    </div>
</div>

javascript

syncApp.controller('heatmapCtrl', function ($scope) {
});

###Vertical:

html

<div ej-heatmaplegend id="heatmap_legend" e-colormappingcollection="colorMappingCollection" e-height="50px" e-width="75%" e-showlabel="true" e-legendmode="ej.HeatMap.LegendMode.List" e-orientation=" ej.HeatMap.LegendOrientation.Vertical">
    <div e-colormappingcollection>
        <div e-colormapping e-value="0" e-color="#8ec8f8"></div>
        <div e-colormapping e-value="100" e-color="#0d47a1"></div>
    </div>
</div>

javascript

syncApp.controller('heatmapCtrl', function ($scope) {
});