ChartJS: datalabels: show percentage value in Pie piece

Question

I have a piechart with four labels:

var data = [{
    data: [50, 55, 60, 33],
    labels: [\"India\", \"China\", \"US\", \"Canada\"],
    backgroundColor: [
         


        

Answer 1

I like to add a little in accepted answer, ctx.chart.data.datasets[0].data always gives you entire data even if you filter out some data by clicking on legend, means you will always get same percentage for a country even if you filter out some countries.

I have used context.dataset._meta[0].total to get the filtered total.

Here is the working snippet:

var data = [{
  data: [50, 55, 60, 33],
  backgroundColor: [
    "#4b77a9",
    "#5f255f",
    "#d21243",
    "#B27200"
  ],
  borderColor: "#fff"
}];

var options = {
  tooltips: {
    enabled: true
  },
  plugins: {
    datalabels: {
      formatter: (value, ctx) => {

        let sum = ctx.dataset._meta[0].total;
        let percentage = (value * 100 / sum).toFixed(2) + "%";
        return percentage;


      },
      color: '#fff',
    }
  }
};


var ctx = document.getElementById("pie-chart").getContext('2d');
var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
  type: 'pie',
  data: {
  labels: ['India', 'China', 'US', 'Canada'],
    datasets: data
  },
  options: options
});