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Overview

The elementHighlight interaction targets chart elements. When the mouse hovers over an element, that element will be highlighted.

  • Trigger: Mouse hover over element.

  • End: Mouse leaves element.

  • Affected states:

Hovered elements change to active state.

Other elements change to inactive state.

Built-in interaction states:

({
// Active state elements have 1px black border
state: { active: { lineWidth: '1', stroke: '#000' } },
});
example
import { Chart } from '@antv/g2';
const chart = new Chart({ container: 'container' });
chart.options({
type: 'interval',
data: {
type: 'fetch',
value:
'https://gw.alipayobjects.com/os/bmw-prod/fb9db6b7-23a5-4c23-bbef-c54a55fee580.csv',
},
encode: { x: 'letter', y: 'frequency' },
state: { active: { fill: 'orange' }, inactive: { opacity: 0.5 } },
axis: { y: { labelFormatter: '.0%' } },
interaction: { elementHighlight: true },
});
chart.render();

Usage

There are two ways to configure the elementHighlight interaction:

First, pass a boolean to set whether to enable the interaction.

({
type: 'interval',
interaction: { elementHighlight: true }, // Use default configuration
});

Second, pass configuration options to configure the interaction.

({
type: 'line',
interaction: {
elementHighlight: {
background: true,
},
},
});

Configuration Level

Interaction can be configured at the Mark level:

({
type: 'interval',
interaction: { elementHighlight: true },
});

It can also be configured at the View level. Interactions declared on the view will be passed to marks declared in children. If the mark has declared the corresponding interaction, they will be merged; otherwise, it won't be affected.

({
type: 'view',
interaction: { elementHighlight: true },
});

Configuration Options

Element highlight interaction configuration has two parts:

  1. Interaction configuration
  2. Element highlight style

Interaction Configuration

PropertyDescriptionTypeDefault
backgroundWhether to highlight backgroundbooleanfalse
regionWhether to trigger highlight when mouse moves to empty area of element (see below)booleanfalse
example

Element Highlight Style

Element highlight style, see example Custom Highlight

PropertyDescriptionTypeDefaultRequired
offsetOffset in the main directionnumber0
backgroundRadiusBackground border radiusnumber | (datum, index, data) => number0
backgroundFillBackground fill colorstring | (datum, index, data) => stringtransparent
backgroundFillOpacityBackground fill opacitynumber | (datum, index, data) => number-
backgroundStrokeBackground strokestring | (datum, index, data) => string-
backgroundStrokeOpacityBackground stroke opacitynumber | (datum, index, data) => number-
backgroundLineWidthBackground stroke widthnumber | (datum, index, data) => number-
backgroundLineDashBackground stroke dash configuration. First value is dash length, second is gap length. Setting lineDash to [0,0] means no stroke.[number,number] | (datum, index, data) => [number , number]-
backgroundOpacityBackground overall opacitynumber | (datum, index, data) => number-
backgroundShadowColorBackground shadow colorstring | (datum, index, data) => string-
backgroundShadowBlurBackground shadow Gaussian blur coefficientnumber | (datum, index, data) => number-
backgroundShadowOffsetXSet horizontal distance of shadow from backgroundnumber | (datum, index, data) => number-
backgroundShadowOffsetYSet vertical distance of shadow from backgroundnumber | (datum, index, data) => number-
backgroundCursorBackground mouse cursor style. Same as CSS cursor style.string | (datum, index, data) => stringdefault

When configuring background in active elements, it's not configured as an object, but using the background prefix with property names.

({
state: {
active: {
backgroundRadius: 50,
backgroundFill: '#000',
backgroundFillOpacity: 0.9,
backgroundStroke: '#DAF5EC',
backgroundStrokeOpacity: 0.9,
backgroundLineWidth: 2,
backgroundLineDash: [4, 8],
backgroundOpacity: 1,
backgroundShadowColor: '#d3d3d3',
backgroundShadowBlur: 10,
backgroundShadowOffsetX: 10,
backgroundShadowOffsetY: 10,
backgroundCursor: 'pointer',
},
},
});

Events

Listening to Events

The following events are supported:

  • element:highlight - Triggered when element is highlighted
  • element:unhighlight - Triggered when element highlight is removed
chart.on('element:highlight', (e) => {
console.log(e.data.data);
console.log(e.data.group);
console.log(e.nativeEvent);
});
chart.on('element:unhighlight', (e) => {
console.log(e.nativeEvent);
});

Triggering Interaction

The following events are supported:

  • element:highlight - Highlight data
  • element:unhighlight - Remove highlight
chart.emit('element:highlight', {
data: { data: { population: 5038433 } },
});
chart.emit('element:unhighlight', {});

Examples

Basic Highlight

import { Chart } from '@antv/g2';
const chart = new Chart({
container: 'container',
});
chart.options({
type: 'interval',
autoFit: true,
data: {
type: 'fetch',
value:
'https://gw.alipayobjects.com/os/bmw-prod/fb9db6b7-23a5-4c23-bbef-c54a55fee580.csv',
},
encode: { x: 'letter', y: 'frequency' },
transform: [{ type: 'sortX', by: 'y', reverse: true, slice: 5 }],
axis: { y: { labelFormatter: '.0%' } },
interaction: { elementHighlight: { background: true } },
});
chart.render();

Custom Highlight

import { Chart } from '@antv/g2';
const chart = new Chart({
container: 'container',
});
chart.options({
type: 'interval',
autoFit: true,
data: {
type: 'fetch',
value:
'https://gw.alipayobjects.com/os/bmw-prod/fb9db6b7-23a5-4c23-bbef-c54a55fee580.csv',
},
encode: { x: 'letter', y: 'frequency' },
transform: [{ type: 'sortX', by: 'y', reverse: true, slice: 5 }],
axis: { y: { labelFormatter: '.0%' } },
state: {
active: {
backgroundRadius: 50,
backgroundFill: '#DAF5EC',
backgroundFillOpacity: 0.9,
backgroundStroke: '#52C41A',
backgroundStrokeOpacity: 0.9,
backgroundLineWidth: 2,
backgroundLineDash: [4, 8],
backgroundOpacity: 1,
backgroundShadowColor: '#d3d3d3',
backgroundShadowBlur: 10,
backgroundShadowOffsetX: 10,
backgroundShadowOffsetY: 10,
backgroundCursor: 'pointer',
},
},
interaction: {
elementHighlight: {
background: true,
},
},
});
chart.render();