[SOLVED] How to detect click on chart js 3.7.1 axis label?

How to detect click on chart js 3.7.1 axis label?

How to detect click on an axis label with chart.js

In the example bellow, I can only detect click on the graph itself

https://stackblitz.com/edit/ng2-charts-bar-template-qchyz6

Solution

You will need to implement a custom plugin that can listen to all the events of the canvas:

const findLabel = (labels, evt) => {
  let found = false;
  let res = null;

  labels.forEach(l => {
    l.labels.forEach((label, index) => {
      if (evt.x > label.x && evt.x < label.x2 && evt.y > label.y && evt.y < label.y2) {
        res = {
          label: label.label,
          index
        };
        found = true;
      }
    });
  });

  return [found, res];
};

const getLabelHitboxes = (scales) => (Object.values(scales).map((s) => ({
  scaleId: s.id,
  labels: s._labelItems.map((e, i) => ({
    x: e.translation[0] - s._labelSizes.widths[i],
    x2: e.translation[0] + s._labelSizes.widths[i] / 2,
    y: e.translation[1] - s._labelSizes.heights[i] / 2,
    y2: e.translation[1] + s._labelSizes.heights[i] / 2,
    label: e.label,
    index: i
  }))
})));

const plugin = {
  id: 'customHover',
  afterEvent: (chart, event, opts) => {
    const evt = event.event;

    if (evt.type !== 'click') {
      return;
    }

    const [found, labelInfo] = findLabel(getLabelHitboxes(chart.scales), evt);

    if (found) {
      console.log(labelInfo);
    }

  }
}

Chart.register(plugin);

const options = {
  type: 'line',
  data: {
    labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
    datasets: [{
        label: '# of Votes',
        data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
        borderColor: 'pink'
      },
      {
        label: '# of Points',
        data: [7, 11, 5, 8, 3, 7],
        borderColor: 'orange'
      }
    ]
  },
  options: {}
}

const ctx = document.getElementById('chartJSContainer').getContext('2d');
new Chart(ctx, options);

<body>
  <canvas id="chartJSContainer" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.7.1/chart.js"></script>
</body>