Chart.js: Bar Chart Click Events

Question

I\'ve just started working with Chart.js, and I am getting very frustrated very quickly. I have my stacked bar chart working, but I can\'t get the click \"events\" to work.<

Answer 1

You can use onClick like this.

var worstCells3GBoxChart = new Chart(ctx, {
                type: 'bar',
                data: {
                    labels: lbls,
                    datasets: [{
                        label: 'Worst Cells by 3G',
                        data: datas,
                        backgroundColor: getColorsUptoArray('bg', datas.length),
                        borderColor: getColorsUptoArray('br', datas.length),
                        borderWidth: 1
                    }]
                },
                options: {
                    legend: {
                        display: false
                    },
                    scales: {
                        yAxes: [{
                            ticks: {
                                beginAtZero: true
                            }
                        }]
                    },
                    onClick: function (e) {
                        debugger;
                        var activePointLabel = this.getElementsAtEvent(e)[0]._model.label;
                        alert(activePointLabel);
                    }
                }
            });

Answer 2

I had the same problem with multiple datasets, and used this workaround:

var clickOnChart = function(dataIndex){
    ...
}
var lastHoveredIndex = null;
var chart_options = {
    ...
    tooltips: {
        ...
        callbacks: {
            label: function(tooltipItem, chart) {
                var index = tooltipItem.datasetIndex;
                var value  = chart.datasets[index].data[0];
                var label  = chart.datasets[index].label;

                lastHoveredIndex = index;

                return value + "€";
            }
        }
    },
    onClick:function(e, items){
        if ( items.length == 0 ) return; //Clicked outside any bar.

        clickOnChart(lastHoveredIndex);
    }
}