Legend

24 May 20192 minutes to read

Legend Visibility

You can enable or disable legend using the Visible property inside the Legend object.

NOTE

By default, the legend is visible in PivotChart.

CSHTML

//Legend Visibility set as true
@Html.EJ().Pivot().PivotChart("PivotChart1").Url(Url.Content("/RelationalChartService.svc")).Size(size => size.Height("460px").Width("950px")).Legend(legend => legend.Visible(true))

Legend Shape

You can customize the legend Shape in PivotChart control. Default value of legend shape is “Rectangle”. Following legend shapes that are supported:

• Rectangle
• Circle
• Cross
• Diamond
• Pentagon
• Hexagon
• Star
• Ellipse
• Triangle etc.

CSHTML

//Applying legend shape
@Html.EJ().Pivot().PivotChart("PivotChart1").Url(Url.Content("/RelationalChartService.svc")).Size(size => size.Height("460px").Width("950px")).Legend(legend => legend.Visible(true).Shape(ChartShape.Star))

Legend Position

By using the Position property, you can place the legend at top, bottom, left or right of the PivotChart.

NOTE

Default value of legend position is “bottom” in PivotChart.

CSHTML

//Place the legend at top of the Chart
@Html.EJ().Pivot().PivotChart("PivotChart1").Url(Url.Content("/RelationalChartService.svc")).Size(size => size.Height("460px").Width("950px")).Legend(legend => legend.Visible(true).Shape(ChartShape.Star).Position(LegendPosition.Top))

Legend Title

To add the legend title, you have to specify the title text in title.Text property.

CSHTML

//Add title to the Chart legend
@Html.EJ().Pivot().PivotChart("PivotChart1").Url(Url.Content("/RelationalChartService.svc")).Size(size => size.Height("460px").Width("950px")).Legend(legend => legend.Visible(true).Title(title => title.Text("Countries")))

Legend Alignment

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

CSHTML

//Aligning the legend near to the Chart
@Html.EJ().Pivot().PivotChart("PivotChart1").Url(Url.Content("/RelationalChartService.svc")).Size(size => size.Height("460px").Width("950px")).Legend(legend => legend.Visible(true).Alignment(TextAlignment.Near))

Legend Items - Size and Border

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

CSHTML

//Changing legend items border, height and width
@Html.EJ().Pivot().PivotChart("PivotChart1").Url(Url.Content("/RelationalChartService.svc")).Size(size => size.Height("460px").Width("950px")).Legend(legend => legend.Visible(true).ItemStyle(ItemSize => ItemSize.Border(border => border.Color("magenta").Width(1.5)).Height(12).Width(12)))

Legend Border

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

CSHTML

//Setting border color and width to legend
@Html.EJ().Pivot().PivotChart("PivotChart1").Url(Url.Content("/RelationalChartService.svc")).Size(size => size.Height("460px").Width("950px")).Legend(legend => legend.Visible(true).Border(border => border.Color("#FFC342").Width(2)))

Legend Text

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

CSHTML

///Customizing the legend text
@Html.EJ().Pivot().PivotChart("PivotChart1").Url(Url.Content("/RelationalChartService.svc")).Size(size => size.Height("460px").Width("950px")).Legend(legend => legend.Visible(true).Font(font => font.FontFamily("Segoe UI").FontWeight(ChartFontWeight.Bold).FontStyle(ChartFontStyle.Italic).Size("13px")))