Charts

Pages comes bundled with two popular charting libraries: Rickshaw and NVD3. These libraries render charts in SVG format which makes them highly customizable using CSS and JS.

Rickshaw Charts

Rickshaw is a simple framework for drawing charts of time series data on a web page, built on top of Mike Bostock's delightful D3 library. These charts can be powered by static historical data sets, or living data that continuously updates in real time.


Please refer to Rickshaw Tutorial to learn more about the library

Step one

Include the plugin stylesheet rickshaw.min.css.css <head>. Please view Stylesheet inclusion guideline rules

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="assets/plugins/rickshaw/rickshaw.min.css"></link>
Step two

Include the plugin javascript file and D3 library inside the <body>before core template script inclusions, if it's not there already. Please view jQuery plugin inclusion guideline rules 

<script src="assets/plugins/d3/d3.min.js"></script>
<script src="assets/plugins/rickshaw/rickshaw.min.js"></script>
Step three

Create the markup 

<div id="chart"></div>
Step four

Apply the plugin. This example renders a basic area chart 

<script>

var data = [ { x: 0, y: 40 }, { x: 1, y: 49 }, { x: 2, y: 17 }, { x: 3, y: 42 } ];

var graph = new Rickshaw.Graph( {
        element: document.querySelector("#chart"),
        width: 580,
        height: 250,
        series: [ {
                color: 'steelblue',
                data: data
        } ]
} );

graph.render();

</script>


Step three

Add following markup to your page. Note the use of directive rickshaw

<rickshaw
    rickshaw-options="options"
    rickshaw-features="features"
    rickshaw-series="series">
</rickshaw>

NVD3 Charts

NVD3 is an attempt to build re-usable charts and chart components for d3.js without taking away the power that d3.js gives you.

jQuery users

Please refer to NVD3 Tutorial to learn about the basics of the library

Step one

Include the plugin stylesheet rickshaw.min.css.css <head>. Please view Stylesheet inclusion guideline rules

<link media="screen" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="assets/plugins/nvd3/nv.d3.min.css"></link>
Step two

Include the plugin javascript files inside the <body>before core template script inclusions, if it's not there already. Please view jQuery plugin inclusion guideline rules 

<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/plugins/nvd3/lib/d3.v3.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/plugins/nvd3/nv.d3.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/plugins/nvd3/src/utils.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/plugins/nvd3/src/tooltip.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/plugins/nvd3/src/interactiveLayer.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/plugins/nvd3/src/models/axis.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/plugins/nvd3/src/models/line.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/plugins/nvd3/src/models/lineWithFocusChart.js"></script>
Step three

Create the markup. Apply the class line-chart to get the Pages pre-defined style for NVD3 charts. Use data-attributes to customize the style 

<div id="nvd3" class="line-chart" 
  data-line-color="success" 
  data-area-color="master"
  data-points="true" 
  data-point-color="white" 
  data-stroke-width="2">
    <svg></svg>
</div>

Available data attributes:

Data Attribute Available values Description
data-line-color white | master | success | info | complete | primary | warning | danger Change the line color of a line chart
data-area-color white | master | success | info | complete | primary | warning | danger Change the area color of a line chart with area option
data-points true | false Show/hide point circles
data-point-color white | master | success | info | complete | primary | warning | danger Change the point color
data-stroke-width 1 | 2 | 3 Change the stroke width of a line chart. Values are in pixels


Sparkline Charts

This jQuery plugin generates sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript.


Please refer to Sparkline Documentation to learn more about the library

Step one

Include the plugin javascript files inside the <body>before core template script inclusions, if it's not there already. Please view jQuery plugin inclusion guideline rules 

<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/plugins/jquery-sparkline/jquery.sparkline.min.js"></script>
Step two

Create the markup. 

<div id="sparkline"></div>
Step three

Apply the plugin. This example renders a basic line chart 

<script>

$("#sparkline").sparkline([5,6,7,9,9,5,3,2,2,4,6,7], {type: 'line'});

</script>