Highcharts - Change legend index order

Question

When creating a chart with stacked columns using highcharts my series are added by default from top to bottom - the first added series is placed on top. I\'d like to alter t

Answer 1

Yes that's most definitely possible.

What you are looking for is the parameter called legendIndex.

This will allow you to specifiy the order of the items in the legend; hence being able to switch the stacked columns and not switch the legend items.

For example, you could do the following:

series: [
        {
            name: 'base',
            data: [10, 20, 30],
            index:1,
            legendIndex:0
        },
        {
            name: 'sec',
            data: [30, 20, 10],
            index:0,
            legendIndex:1
        }
    ]

DEMO

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Update: sorting shared tooltip

In reaction to Hanoncs comment, it is possible to sort the order in a shared tooltip as in the legend by using a little hack. This hack goes as follows:

1. Use the property

   yAxis: {
       reversedStacks: false 
   },
   

2. Reverse the index property of the added series. In the example above, series 'base' then has index:0 and 'sec' is given index:1. The items in the shared tooltip will be sorted reversely.

DEMO 2

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