Styles > Font Style Type

As you already know, using the font style type, you can control the visual properties of all the text on the chart. The following properties are extended by the font type. Detailed explanations with code samples follow:

 

Attribute

Brief Description

Sample or Valid values

font

Sets the font family for the text.

Verdana, Arial ..

size

Specifies the font size

10, 12 ..

Color

Sets the font color, should be hex color code without #

FF0000, FFFFDD

Bold

Flag indicating whether font should be bold or not

1 for Yes, 0 for No

Italic

Flag indicating whether font should be italics or not

1 for Yes, 0 for No

Underline

Flag indicating whether font should be underlined

1 for Yes, 0 for No

bgColor

Sets the background color for a text box, should be hex color code without #

FF0000, FFFFDD

borderColor

If you need a border around your text, you can use this parameter

 

isHTML

Helps you set whether the text should be rendered as HTML or plain text.

 

leftMargin

The left margin of the text, in points

 

letterSpacing

The amount of space that is uniformly distributed between characters of the text

 
 

Font family, size & color
The basic attributes of the font are its font family, size and color which can be set using the aforementioned attributes.
e.g.,
<style name='MyFirstFontStyle' type='font' font='Verdana' size='12' color='FF0000' />

 

Attribute

Format

Example

Font

font='fontfamily'

font='Verdana'

Size

size='fontsize'

size='12'

Color

color='HexCode (without #)'

color='FF0000'
 

Here, font should refer to a fontfamily which is present on the end users system (else the default system font would be used to draw text). Color should be in Hex code without any #.
 

bold, italic & underline
To decorate your text, you can use any of the above parameters as under:
<style name='MyFirstFontStyle' type='font' font='Verdana' size='12' color='FF0000' bold='1' italic='1' underline='1' />

 

Attribute

Format

Example

Bold

bold='Logicalvalue'

bold='1' or bold='0'

Italic

italic='Logicalvalue'

italic='1' italic='0'

Underline

underline='Logicalvalue'

underline='1' or underline='0'

The above code will make sure that your font appears as bold, italicized and underlined.
 

bgColor and borderColor

If you intend to put a border color or a background color for your text boxes on the chart, you can use the above two parameter to define hex color code (without #) as under:
<style name='MyFirstFontStyle' type='font' font='Verdana' size='12' color='FF0000' bgColor='FFFFDD' borderColor='666666' />
 

Attribute

Format

Example

bgColor

bgColor='value'

bgColor='FFFFDD'

borderColor

borderColor='value '

borderColor='666666'

This style when applied to a text field on chart (e.g., caption), would give an output as under:
 

Chart caption ("Products Per Category") with border and background color applied to it.
 

isHTML

This attribute is particularly useful, when you have HTML characters as a part of your text e.g., "< 5" or "> 5" etc. By default, FusionCharts renders all text as HTML and as such "< 5" will be treated as a non-closing HTML tag and wouldn't be displayed at all.
 

For example, if you've to display "< 5" for a particular set value, you would use:
<set name='&lt; 5' value='7' />
(Note that &lt; is the encoded form of <, which is used in XML data documents).
 
And the style type for this chart element which contains the text would be defined as:
<style name='LabelFont' type='font' font='Arial' size='10' isHTML='0' />

 

Attribute

Format

Example

isHTML

isHTML ='Logicalvalue'

isHTML ='1' or isHTML ='0'

 
 

leftMargin and letterSpacing

leftMargin lets you set the left margin of the text (in points) and letterSpacing allows you to control the space that is uniformly distributed between characters - the value specifies the number of pixels that are added to the space after each character. A negative value condenses the space between characters.

e.g.,
<style name='MyFirstFontStyle' type='font' font='Verdana' size='12' color='FF0000' bgColor='FFFFDD' borderColor='666666' leftMargin='10' letterSpacing='3'/>

 

Attribute

Format

Example

leftMargin

leftMargin='value in pixels'

leftMargin='10'

letterSpacing

letterSpacing='value in pixels'

letterSpacing='3'

 

The above style when applied to chart caption, gives the following output: