Legend

24 May 20193 minutes to read

Legend visibility

You can enable or disable the legend by using the visible property in the e-legend object.

NOTE

By default, the legend is visible in the pivot chart.

<ej-pivot-chart id="PivotChart1">
    //Legend Visibility
    <e-legend visible="true"></e-legend>
    <e-size width="950px" height="460px"></e-size>
</ej-pivot-chart>

Legend visibility in ASP NET Core pivot chart control

Legend shape

You can customize the legend shape in the pivot chart control. The default value of legend shape is rectangle. Following are the supported legend shapes:

rectangle
circle
cross
diamond
pentagon
hexagon
star
ellipse
triangle etc.

CSHTML

<ej-pivot-chart id="PivotChart1">
    //Applying legend shape
    <e-legend visible="true" row-count="3" shape="star"></e-legend>
    <e-size width="950px" height="460px"></e-size>
</ej-pivot-chart>

Legend shape in ASP NET Core pivot chart control

Legend position

By using the position property, you can place the legend at top, bottom, left, or right of the pivot chart.

NOTE

The default value of legend position is bottom in the pivot chart.

CSHTML

<ej-pivot-chart id="PivotChart1">
    //Applying legend position
    <e-legend visible="true" row-count="3" position="top"></e-legend>
    <e-size width="950px" height="460px"></e-size>
</ej-pivot-chart>

Legend position in ASP NET Core pivot chart control

Legend title

To add the legend title, you should specify the title text in e-title.text property.

CSHTML

<ej-pivot-chart id="PivotChart1">
    //Place the legend at top of the Chart
    <e-legend visible="true">
        <e-title text="Countries"></e-title>
    </e-legend>
    <e-size width="950px" height="460px"></e-size>
</ej-pivot-chart>

Legend title in ASP NET Core pivot chart control

Legend alignment

You can align the legend to center, far, and near based on its position in the chart area by using the alignment option.

CSHTML

<ej-pivot-chart id="PivotChart1">
    //Place the legend alignment at near to the Chart
    <e-legend visible="true" row-count="3" alignment="near"></e-legend>
    <e-size width="950px" height="460px"></e-size>
</ej-pivot-chart>

Legend alignment in ASP NET Core pivot chart control

Legend items - size and border

By using the legend item-style-width, item-style-height, and item-style-border properties, you can change the size and border of legend items.

CSHTML

<ej-pivot-chart id="PivotChart1">
    //Changing legend items border, height and width
    <e-legend visible="true" item-style-width="12" item-style-height="12" item-style-border-color="Magenta" item-style-border-width="1.5"></e-legend>
    <e-size width="950px" height="460px"></e-size>
</ej-pivot-chart>

Size and border of legend in ASP NET Core pivot chart control

Legend border

By using the border option in legend, you can customize the color and width of the border.

CSHTML

<ej-pivot-chart id="PivotChart1">
    //Setting border color and width to legend
    <e-legend visible="true" border-width="2" border-color="#FFC342"></e-legend>
    <e-size width="950px" height="460px"></e-size>
</ej-pivot-chart>

Legend border in ASP NET Core pivot chart control

Legend text

By using the e-font option, you can customize the font family, font style, font weight, and size of the legend text.

CSHTML

<ej-pivot-chart id="PivotChart1">
    //Setting border color and width to legend
    <e-legend>
        //Customizing the legend text
        <e-font font-family="SegoeUI" font-size="13px" font-style="Italic" font-weight="Bold"></e-font>
    </e-legend>
    <e-size width="950px" height="460px"></e-size>
</ej-pivot-chart>

Legend text in ASP NET Core pivot chart control