Highcharts Area range and line

Highcharts is a pure JavaScript-based charting library meant to enhance web applications by adding interactive charting capability. Highcharts provides a wide variety of charts. For example, line charts, spline charts, area charts, bar charts, pie charts, and so on.

With Highcharts included in your webpage, you are ready to create your first chart.

We will start off by creating a simple bar chart.

A chart is initialized by adding the JavaScript tag, <script> </script>anywhere in a webpage, containing the following code.

highcharts_area_basic.html

<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts-more.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/exporting.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/export-data.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/accessibility.js"></script>
<figure class="highcharts-figure">
<div id="container"></div>
<p class="highcharts-description">
Chart demonstrating using an arearange series in combination with a line
series. In this case, the arearange series is used to visualize the
temperature range per day, while the line series shows the average
temperature.
</p>
</figure>

highcharts_area_basic.css

#container {
height: 400px;
}
.highcharts-figure, .highcharts-data-table table {
min-width: 310px;
max-width: 800px;
margin: 1em auto;
}
.highcharts-data-table table {
font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
border-collapse: collapse;
border: 1px solid #EBEBEB;
margin: 10px auto;
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
max-width: 500px;
}
.highcharts-data-table caption {
padding: 1em 0;
font-size: 1.2em;
color: #555;
}
.highcharts-data-table th {
font-weight: 600;
padding: 0.5em;
}
.highcharts-data-table td, .highcharts-data-table th, .highcharts-data-table caption {
padding: 0.5em;
}
.highcharts-data-table thead tr, .highcharts-data-table tr:nth-child(even) {
background: #f8f8f8;
}
.highcharts-data-table tr:hover {
background: #f1f7ff;
}

highcharts_area_basic.js

var ranges = [
[1246406400000, 14.3, 27.7],
[1246492800000, 14.5, 27.8],
[1246579200000, 15.5, 29.6],
[1246665600000, 16.7, 30.7],
[1246752000000, 16.5, 25.0],
[1246838400000, 17.8, 25.7],
[1246924800000, 13.5, 24.8],
[1247011200000, 10.5, 21.4],
[1247097600000, 9.2, 23.8],
[1247184000000, 11.6, 21.8],
[1247270400000, 10.7, 23.7],
[1247356800000, 11.0, 23.3],
[1247443200000, 11.6, 23.7],
[1247529600000, 11.8, 20.7],
[1247616000000, 12.6, 22.4],
[1247702400000, 13.6, 19.6],
[1247788800000, 11.4, 22.6],
[1247875200000, 13.2, 25.0],
[1247961600000, 14.2, 21.6],
[1248048000000, 13.1, 17.1],
[1248134400000, 12.2, 15.5],
[1248220800000, 12.0, 20.8],
[1248307200000, 12.0, 17.1],
[1248393600000, 12.7, 18.3],
[1248480000000, 12.4, 19.4],
[1248566400000, 12.6, 19.9],
[1248652800000, 11.9, 20.2],
[1248739200000, 11.0, 19.3],
[1248825600000, 10.8, 17.8],
[1248912000000, 11.8, 18.5],
[1248998400000, 10.8, 16.1]
],
averages = [
[1246406400000, 21.5],
[1246492800000, 22.1],
[1246579200000, 23],
[1246665600000, 23.8],
[1246752000000, 21.4],
[1246838400000, 21.3],
[1246924800000, 18.3],
[1247011200000, 15.4],
[1247097600000, 16.4],
[1247184000000, 17.7],
[1247270400000, 17.5],
[1247356800000, 17.6],
[1247443200000, 17.7],
[1247529600000, 16.8],
[1247616000000, 17.7],
[1247702400000, 16.3],
[1247788800000, 17.8],
[1247875200000, 18.1],
[1247961600000, 17.2],
[1248048000000, 14.4],
[1248134400000, 13.7],
[1248220800000, 15.7],
[1248307200000, 14.6],
[1248393600000, 15.3],
[1248480000000, 15.3],
[1248566400000, 15.8],
[1248652800000, 15.2],
[1248739200000, 14.8],
[1248825600000, 14.4],
[1248912000000, 15],
[1248998400000, 13.6]
];
Highcharts.chart('container', {
title: {
text: 'July temperatures'
},
xAxis: {
type: 'datetime',
accessibility: {
rangeDescription: 'Range: Jul 1st 2009 to Jul 31st 2009.'
}
},
yAxis: {
title: {
text: null
}
},
tooltip: {
crosshairs: true,
shared: true,
valueSuffix: '°C'
},
series: [{
name: 'Temperature',
data: averages,
zIndex: 1,
marker: {
fillColor: 'white',
lineWidth: 2,
lineColor: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[0]
}
}, {
name: 'Range',
data: ranges,
type: 'arearange',
lineWidth: 0,
linkedTo: ':previous',
color: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[0],
fillOpacity: 0.3,
zIndex: 0,
marker: {
enabled: false
}
}]
});

You should now see this chart on your webpage:

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