ChartJS - Different color per data point

Question

Is there a way to set a different color to a datapoint in a Line Chart if its above a certain value?

I found this example for dxChart - https://stackoverflow.com/a/2

Answer 1

Here's what worked for me (v 2.7.0), first I had to set pointBackgroundColor and pointBorderColor in the dataset to an array (you can fill this array with colours in the first place if you want):

var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
    type: 'line',
    data: {
        datasets: [
            {
                data: dataPoints,
                pointBackgroundColor: [],
                pointBorderColor: [],
            }
        ]
    }
});

Then you can monkey with the colours of the points directly:

  myChart.data.datasets[0].pointBackgroundColor[4] = "#cc00cc";
  myChart.data.datasets[0].pointBorderColor[4] = "#cc0000";
  myChart.update();

Some other properties to play with to distinguish a point: pointStrokeColor (it apparently exists but I can't seem to get it to work), pointRadius & pointHoverRadius (integers), pointStyle ('triangle', 'rect', 'rectRot', 'cross', 'crossRot', 'star', 'line', and 'dash'), though I can't seem to figure out the defaults for pointRadius and pointStyle.