HighCharts: How to use reflow to allow auto-resize after changing size

Question

In our Angular app we\'re using highcarts-ng for our HighCharts implementation.

Here is the Chart Maximize and Minimize function, which works:

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Answer 1

You can do this by adding a new method to chart that will manually trigger the reflow like so:

chart.reflowNow = function(){
    this.containerHeight = this.options.chart.height || window.window.HighchartsAdapter.adapterRun(this.renderTo, 'height');
    this.containerWidth = this.options.chart.width || window.window.HighchartsAdapter.adapterRun(this.renderTo, 'width');
    this.setSize(this.containerWidth, this.containerHeight, false);
    this.hasUserSize = null;
}

Then whenever you want to get away from manual resizing using setSize() just call chart.reflow()

Here's an working example: jsFiddle

Reference taken from: github-issue

UPDATE for ng-highcharts users

For doing this when using ng-highcharts library, you can simply pull out the chart object in the controller that has highcharts-ng dependency and add the reflowNow function, like so:

var chart = this.chartConfig.getHighcharts();
chart.reflowreflowNow = function (){ ... }

This is also the recommended way to pull out chart to do custom jobs by author of ng-highcharts as noted here and this fiddle.