Tooltip plugin for Chartist.js

This plugin provides quick and easy tooltips for your chartist charts. Touch support is planned soon.

Please visit http://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/plugins.html for more information.

NPM package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chartist-plugin-tooltips

Note the 's' on the end of the package name. chartist-plugin-tooltip with no 's' is a different package that does not appear to be actively maintained.

Available options and their defaults

var defaultOptions = {
  currency: undefined, //accepts '£', '$', '€', etc.
  //e.g. 4000 => €4,000
  tooltipFnc: undefined, //accepts function
  //build custom tooltip
  transformTooltipTextFnc: undefined, // accepts function
  // transform tooltip text
  class: undefined, // accecpts 'class1', 'class1 class2', etc.
  //adds class(es) to tooltip wrapper
  anchorToPoint: false, //accepts true or false
  //tooltips do not follow mouse movement -- they are anchored to the point / bar.
  appendToBody: false, //accepts true or false
  //appends tooltips to body instead of chart container
  showOnClick: false,
  //whether to show the tooltip on click (will show on hover by default)
  showValue: true,
  //whether to show the value of the data point inside the tooltip
  position: {
    y: 'top',
    //top, bottom, middle
    x: 'center'
    //left, center, right  
  }
  //tooltip position against the data point
};

Sample usage in Chartist.js

bower install chartist-plugin-tooltip --save

With descriptive text:

var chart = new Chartist.Line('.ct-chart', {
  labels: [1, 2, 3],
  series: [
    [
      {meta: 'description', value: 1},
      {meta: 'description', value: 5},
      {meta: 'description', value: 3}
    ],
    [
      {meta: 'other description', value: 2},
      {meta: 'other description', value: 4},
      {meta: 'other description', value: 2}
    ]
  ]
}, {
  plugins: [
    Chartist.plugins.tooltip()
  ]
});

Without descriptive text:

var chart = new Chartist.Line('.ct-chart', {
  labels: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7],
  series: [
    [1, 5, 3, 4, 6, 2, 3],
    [2, 4, 2, 5, 4, 3, 6]
  ]
}, {
  plugins: [
    Chartist.plugins.tooltip()
  ]
});

With options text:

var chart = new Chartist.Line('.ct-chart', {
  labels: [1, 2, 3],
  series: [
    [
      {meta: 'description', value: 1},
      {meta: 'description', value: 5},
      {meta: 'description', value: 3}
    ],
    [
      {meta: 'other description', value: 2},
      {meta: 'other description', value: 4},
      {meta: 'other description', value: 2}
    ]
  ]
}, {
  plugins: [
    Chartist.plugins.tooltip({
      currency: '$',
      class: 'class1 class2',
      appendToBody: true
    })
  ]
});

Custom point element.

In ChartistJS you can replace default element with smth different. There is a pretty demo (USING EVENTS TO REPLACE GRAPHICS). And if you want the tooltip to work fine with a new element, you need to include two more properties:

'ct:value': data.value.y,
'ct:meta': data.meta,

So the final code could look like this. Here is a live demo

chart.on('draw', function(data) {
  // If the draw event was triggered from drawing a point on the line chart
  if(data.type === 'point') {
    // We are creating a new path SVG element that draws a triangle around the point coordinates

    var circle = new Chartist.Svg('circle', {
      cx: [data.x],
      cy: [data.y],
      r: [5],
      'ct:value': data.value.y,
      'ct:meta': data.meta,
      class: 'my-cool-point',
    }, 'ct-area');

    // With data.element we get the Chartist SVG wrapper and we can replace the original point drawn by Chartist with our newly created triangle
    data.element.replace(circle);
  }
});

plugins: [
      Chartist.plugins.tooltip({
        appendToBody: true,
        pointClass: 'my-cool-point'
      })

    ]