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Area Chart API

See which slice of a growing total is really driving it - props and events below, or the Area Chart demo for it in action.

Import

ts
import "@michi-vz/wc/area-chart";
// <michi-vz-area-chart> is now defined
ts
import { mountAreaChart } from "@michi-vz/core";

const chart = mountAreaChart(el, props);

Props

PropTypeDefaultDescription
series*AreaDataRow[]Array of rows, each carrying an x (`date`) plus one numeric value per stacked key
keys*string[]Category keys to stack (bottom-to-top); disabledItems removes from the stack.
titlestringOptional chart title rendered above the plot
xAxisDataType"date_annual" | "date_monthly" | "number""number"How x values are parsed and formatted: yearly dates, monthly dates, or plain numbers
xAxisFormat(d: number | string) => stringFormats an x tick value into its display label
yAxisFormat(d: number | string) => stringFormats a y tick value into its display label
yAxisDomain[number, number]Fix the y-axis range as [min, max] instead of deriving it from the data
forcePercentageScalebooleanfalseFix the y-axis to [0,100] regardless of data (display only; data not normalized).
ticksnumber5Approximate number of axis ticks to generate
tickValuesArray<number | Date>Explicit tick values, overriding the generated ones
curve"curveBumpX" | "curveLinear" | "curveMonotoneX"Line interpolation: curveLinear, curveMonotoneX, or curveBumpX
tooltipFormatter(row: AreaDataRow, key: string, series: AreaDataRow[]) => stringReturns custom tooltip HTML for a hovered datum (sanitized before it is inserted)
onHighlightItem(labels: string[]) => voidCalled when the hovered/highlighted label(s) change
Common props — shared by every chart (14)
PropTypeDefaultDescription
widthnumber900Chart width in pixels
heightnumber480Chart height in pixels
marginMargin{ top: 50, right: 50, bottom: 50, left: 60 }Inner margins (top/right/bottom/left, in px) reserved for axes, titles, and labels
colorsstring[]Categorical palette for series/labels without an explicit colour or colorsMapping entry
colorsMappingRecord<string, string>Explicit label -> colour map; takes precedence over the palette and per-item colours
highlightItemsstring[]Labels to emphasise; all other marks dim
disabledItemsstring[]Labels to hide and exclude from scales/stacks
renderer"svg" | "canvas""svg"Render as inline SVG (default) or to a canvas (faster for large datasets); getContext() is identical either way
localestringBCP-47 locale used for number and date formatting
skipColorMappingDispatchbooleanfalseExternal-CSS mode: unmapped labels resolve to transparent and onColorMappingGenerated is not emitted, so mark colours come from your CSS via the data-label-safe contract
enableTransitionsbooleantrueAnimate updates with CSS transitions (default true)
onColorMappingGenerated(mapping: Record<string, string>) => voidCalled with the resolved label -> colour map after the chart assigns colours
onChartDataProcessed(context: ChartContext) => voidCalled with the renderer-agnostic ChartContext whenever the data is (re)processed
onDataWarning(warnings: DataWarning[]) => voidCalled with any non-fatal data warnings (duplicate labels, non-finite values, gaps, ...)

Events

The web component dispatches these bubbling CustomEvents (the engine exposes the same via the on* callbacks in the table above):

EventDetailFires when
michi-vz:highlightstring[]hover highlight changes
michi-vz:colormappingRecord<string, string>a color mapping is generated
michi-vz:dataprocessedChartContextdata is (re)processed
michi-vz:datawarningDataWarning[]input warnings are detected

getContext()

mountAreaChart(el, props).getContext() returns a renderer-agnostic AreaChartContext (structured stats + a deterministic natural-language summary + an a11y table). See LLM context.

Source

Props are typed as AreaChartProps in @michi-vz/core.

Free and open source. MIT licensed.