jQWidgets jqxChart padding Property

Last Updated : 31 Oct, 2021

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful and optimized framework, platform-independent, and widely supported. The jqxChart is a lightweight and powerful chart widget written 100% in javascript. It offers many advanced features and supports three different rendering technologies – SVG, HTML5 Canvas & VML.

The padding property is used to set or return the padding property. i.e. this property is used to set the left, top, right & bottom padding of the chart. It accepts padding type value and the default value is { left: 5, top: 5, right: 5, bottom: 5 }.

Syntax:

It is used to set the padding property.

$('Selector').jqxChart({ padding : values});

It is used to return the padding property.

var padding = $('Selector').jqxChart('padding');

Linked Files: Download jQWidgets from the link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxchart.core.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdraw.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdata.js”></script>

Example: The below example illustrates the jqxChart padding property in jQWidgets.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" 
          href="jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" 
          type="text/css" /> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxchart.core.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdraw.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdata.js"> 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green"> 
          GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
        <h3>jQWidgets jqxChart padding property</h3> 
        <div class='default'></div> 
      <div id='chartContainer' 
           style="width:600px;  
           height: 400px"> 
      </div> 
    </center> 
      
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
        $(document).ready(function () { 
            var json = [ 
                { Day:'Monday', A:3, B:1, C: 2, D:1}, 
                { Day:'Tuesday', A:3, B:1, C: 2, D:1}, 
                { Day:'Wednesday', A:3, B:1, C: 2, D:1}, 
                { Day:'Thursday', A:3, B:1, C: 2, D:1}, 
                { Day:'Friday', A:3, B:1, C: 2, D:1}, 
                { Day:'Saturday', A:3, B:1, C: 2, D:1}, 
                { Day:'Sunday', A:3, B:1, C: 2, D:1} 
            ]; 
                  
            var obj = { 
                title: "Coding Score", 
                description: "Coding Questions Solved Daily", 
                source: json, 
                padding: { left: 50, top: 30,  
                     right: 50, bottom: 30 }, 
                categoryAxis: { 
                    dataField: 'Day', 
                    showGridLines: true 
                }, 
                seriesGroups: [{ 
                    type: 'column', 
                    columnsGapPercent: 30, 
                    seriesGapPercent: 0, 
                    valueAxis: { 
                        minValue: 0, 
                        maxValue: 10, 
                        unitInterval: 10, 
                        description: 'Questions Solved' 
                    }, 
                    series: [ 
                        { dataField: 'A', displayText: 'A'}, 
                        { dataField: 'B', displayText: 'B'}, 
                        { dataField: 'C', displayText: 'C'}, 
                        { dataField: 'D', displayText:'D' } 
                    ] 
                }] 
            }; 
            $('#chartContainer').jqxChart(obj); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>