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Morris.js - pretty time-series line graphs Morris.js is the library that powers the graphs on http://howmanyleft.co.uk/. It's a very simple API for drawing line, bar, area and donut charts. Cheers! - Olly ([email protected])
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Morris.js - pretty time-series line graphs

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Morris.js is the library that powers the graphs on http://howmanyleft.co.uk/. It's a very simple API for drawing line, bar, area and donut charts.

Cheers!

- Olly ([email protected])

Contributors wanted

I'm unfortunately not able to actively support Morris.js any more. I keep an eye on the issues, but I rarely have the time to fix bugs or review pull requests.

If you're interested in actively contributing to Morris.js, please contact me on the email address above.

Requirements

  • jQuery (>= 1.7 recommended, but it'll probably work with older versions)
  • Raphael.js (>= 2.0)

Usage

See the website.

Development

Very daring.

Fork, hack, possibly even add some tests, then send a pull request :)

Remember that Morris.js is a coffeescript project. Please make your changes in the .coffee files, not in the compiled javascript files in the root directory of the project.

Developer quick-start

You'll need node.js. I recommend using nvm for installing node in development environments.

With node installed, install grunt using npm install -g grunt-cli, and then the rest of the test/build dependencies with npm install in the morris.js project folder.

Additionally, bower is required for for retrieving additional test dependencies.
Install it with npm install -g bower and then bower install in the morris project folder.

Once you're all set up, you can compile, minify and run the tests using grunt.

Note: I'm experimenting with using perceptual diffs to catch rendering regressions. Due to font rendering differences between platforms, the pdiff tests currently only pass on OS X.

Changelog

0.5.1 - 15th June 2014

  • Fix touch event handling.
  • Fix stacked=false in bar chart #275
  • Configurable vertical segments #297
  • Deprecate continuousLine option.

0.5.0 - 19th March 2014

  • Update grunt dependency #288
  • Donut segment color config in data objects #281
  • Customisable line widths and point drawing #272
  • Bugfix for @options.smooth #266
  • Option to disable axes individually #253
  • Range selection #252
  • Week format for x-labels #250
  • Update developer quickstart instructions #243
  • Experimenting with perceptual diffs.
  • Add original data row to hover callback #264
  • setData method for donut charts #211
  • Automatic resizing #111
  • Fix travis builds #298
  • Option for rounded corners on bar charts #305
  • Option to set padding for X axis labels #306
  • Use local javascript for examples.
  • Events on non-time series #314

0.4.3 - 12th May 2013

  • Fix flickering hover box #186
  • xLabelAngle option (diagonal labels!!) #239
  • Fix area chart fill bug #190
  • Make event handlers chainable
  • gridTextFamily and gridTextWeight options
  • Fix hovers with setData #213
  • Fix hideHover behaviour #236

0.4.2 - 14th April 2013

  • Fix DST handling #191
  • Parse data values from strings in Morris.Donut #189
  • Non-cumulative area charts #199
  • Round Y-axis labels to significant numbers #162
  • Customising default hover content #179

0.4.1 - 8th February 2013

  • Fix goal and event rendering. #181
  • Don't break when empty data is passed to setData #142
  • labelColor option for donuts #159

0.4.0 - 26th January 2013

  • Goals and events #103.
  • Bower package manager metadata.
  • More flexible formatters #107.
  • Color callbacks.
  • Decade intervals for time-axis labels.
  • Non-continous line tweaks #116.
  • Stacked bars #120.
  • HTML hover #134.
  • yLabelFormat #139.
  • Disable axes #114.

0.3.3 - 1st November 2012

0.3.2 - 28th October 2012

  • Area charts! #47.
  • Some major refactoring and test suite improvements.
  • Set smooth parameter per series #91.
  • Custom dateFormat for string x-values #90.

0.3.1 - 13th October 2012

  • Add formatter option for customising value labels in donuts #75.
  • Cycle lineColors on line charts to avoid running out of colours #78.
  • Add method to select donut segments. #79.
  • Don't go negative on yMin when all y values are zero. #80.
  • Don't sort data when parseTime is false #83.
  • Customise styling for points. #87.

0.3.0 - 15th September 2012

  • Donut charts!
  • Bugfix: ymin/ymax bug #71.
  • Bugfix: infinite loop when data indicates horizontal line #66.

0.2.10 - 26th June 2012

  • Support for decimal labels on y-axis #58.
  • Better axis label clipping #63.
  • Redraw graphs with updated data using setData method #64.
  • Bugfix: series with zero or one non-null values #65.

0.2.9 - 15th May 2012

  • Bugfix: Fix zero-value regression
  • Bugfix: Don't modify user-supplied data

0.2.8 - 10th May 2012

  • Customising x-axis labels with xLabelFormat option
  • Only use timezones when timezone info is specified
  • Fix old IE bugs (mostly in examples!)
  • Added preunits and postunits options
  • Better non-continuous series data support

0.2.7 - 2nd April 2012

  • Added xLabels option
  • Refactored x-axis labelling
  • Better ISO date support
  • Fix bug with single value in non time-series graphs

0.2.6 - 18th March 2012

  • Partial series support (see null y-values in examples/quarters.html)
  • parseTime option bugfix for non-time-series data

0.2.5 - 15th March 2012

  • Raw millisecond timestamp support (with dateFormat option)
  • YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM[:SS[.SSS]] date support
  • Decimal number labels

0.2.4 - 8th March 2012

  • Negative y-values support
  • ymin option
  • units options

0.2.3 - 6th Mar 2012

  • jQuery no-conflict compatibility
  • Support ISO week-number dates
  • Optionally hide hover on mouseout (hideHover)
  • Optionally skip parsing dates, treating X values as an equally-spaced series (parseTime)

0.2.2 - 29th Feb 2012

  • Bugfix: mouseover error when options.data.length == 2
  • Automatically sort options.data

0.2.1 - 28th Feb 2012

  • Accept a DOM element or an ID in options.element
  • Add smooth option
  • Bugfix: clone @default
  • Add ymax option

License

Copyright (c) 2012-2014, Olly Smith All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

327 Open More issues
Closed

Random browser hang/crash using Area chart (on Chrome)

I am experiencing random (intermittent) freezes and crashing when rendering an area chart in my app. Sometimes it is on the initial creation - other times I "empty" the div then create a new area chart.

One time I did get evidence of an infinite loop in raphael - Error parsing d H1810 << my best memory of the repeating error.

Unfortunately I'm not getting the error msg anymore in console - chrome is just hanging.

Here is my code to create the area chart:

var chart = this.line =  Morris.Area({
                    padding: padding,       // eg 10
                    element: $el,              // a div
                    data: data,                  //   [] length = 72 - see sample below
                    xkey: 'tm',
                    ykeys: ['wk','av','rst','ex'],
                    labels: ["Working","Available","Rest","Exception"],
                    lineColors: ["blue","gray","red","green"],
                    // lineWidth: null,
                    // pointSize: null,
                    pointFillColors: ["blue","gray","red","green"],
                    // pointStrokeColors: null,
                    ymax: "auto "+(sdc.ymax+2),        // eg 20
                    ymin: 0,
                    smooth: false,
                    hideHover: true,
                    //parseTime: null,
                    //postUnits,
                    //preUnits,
                    dateFormat: function(t) {
                        return util.dts(t);
                    },
                    //xLabels:
                    xLabelFormat: function(t) {
                        return "";
                    },
                    xLabelMargin: 0

                });

example data element:

av: 2
ex: 0
nc: 1
nm: 2
rst: 0
tm: 1362551400000
wk: 0

My div is styled like this:

<div class="wall-chart" style="left: -26px; width: 1828px;">

and is also position: absolute and height: 100% inside another div:

<div style="height: 78px">

That parent div has padding.

Any ideas? Most of the time (8/10 times) the chart renders properly.

opened Mar 6, 2013 by kidplug 24
Closed

Add horizontal barchart option

You can use a horizontal barchart by using the option horizontal = true. This fixes #110. Quite a lot of code had to be added to make this work. Please let me know if you think something should be handled differently. This also includes the fix I supplied in #447, since it was really small. So it fixes #382 as well.

feature feedback requested 
opened Jul 13, 2014 by JelteF 23
Closed

Uncaught Error: Graph container element not found

I'm getting this error even when I put something basic like:

http://pastie.org/5515931

In my code. Is there a bug in Morris?

opened Dec 12, 2012 by bcackerman 19
Closed

Define multiple line graphs in one JS file

I'm having trouble defining 2 line graphs in one JS file. The graphs are not shown on the same html pages.

I've tried:

Morris.Line({
      element: 'graph_by_hour',
      data: $('#graph_by_hour').data('alerts'),
      xkey: 'hour',
      ykeys: ['alerts'],
      labels: ['Alerts']
    }, {
      element: 'graph_by_priority',
      data: $('#graph_by_priority').data('alerts'),
      xkey: 'created_at',
      ykeys: ['high', 'med', 'low'],
      labels: ['High', 'Medium', 'Low'],
      lineColors: ['#E00B0B', '#1B94E0', '#69CF89']
    });

and

Morris.Line({
      element: 'graph_by_hour',
      data: $('#graph_by_hour').data('alerts'),
      xkey: 'hour',
      ykeys: ['alerts'],
      labels: ['Alerts']
    });
    Morris.Line({
      element: 'graph_by_priority',
      data: $('#graph_by_priority').data('alerts'),
      xkey: 'created_at',
      ykeys: ['high', 'med', 'low'],
      labels: ['High', 'Medium', 'Low'],
      lineColors: ['#E00B0B', '#1B94E0', '#69CF89']
    });

but whichever graph is defined second does not work.

The data looks like this for graph_by_hour and similar for graph_by_priority:

[{"hour":0,"alerts":3},{"hour":1,"alerts":5},{"hour":2,"alerts":12},{"hour":3,"alerts":4},{"hour":4,"alerts":4},{"hour":5,"alerts":4},{"hour":6,"alerts":4},{"hour":7,"alerts":9},{"hour":8,"alerts":2},{"hour":9,"alerts":3},{"hour":10,"alerts":5},{"hour":11,"alerts":5},{"hour":12,"alerts":4},{"hour":13,"alerts":4},{"hour":14,"alerts":7},{"hour":15,"alerts":3},{"hour":16,"alerts":2},{"hour":17,"alerts":3},{"hour":18,"alerts":3},{"hour":19,"alerts":5},{"hour":20,"alerts":0},{"hour":21,"alerts":3},{"hour":22,"alerts":2},{"hour":23,"alerts":3}]

and the whole graphs.js file:

(function() {

  jQuery(function() {
    Morris.Line({
      element: 'graph_by_hour',
      data: $('#graph_by_hour').data('alerts'),
      xkey: 'hour',
      ykeys: ['alerts'],
      labels: ['Alerts']
    });
    Morris.Line({
      element: 'graph_by_priority',
      data: $('#graph_by_priority').data('alerts'),
      xkey: 'created_at',
      ykeys: ['high', 'med', 'low'],
      labels: ['High', 'Medium', 'Low'],
      lineColors: ['#E00B0B', '#1B94E0', '#69CF89']
    });
  });

}).call(this);
opened Nov 21, 2012 by james-ai 18
Closed

How to make legends?

Hi there. Thanks for this project. How can i make a legend for may Bar chart?

opened Dec 28, 2013 by shgninc 17
Closed

Round Y-Axis numbers to a Nicer Format

Hi,

So my area chart looks like this:

Screen Shot 2013-01-17 at 07 29 57

But the axis numbers are not round and nice numbers people like to see, like 250 and 500. We can tweak this behaviour.

opened Jan 17, 2013 by Radagaisus 17
Open

Is it possible to group in bar chart?

(BTW, it's currently not possible to view any of the samples on JS Bin. The message "This bin needs a pro account" is displayed.)

But we have the need to group bar charts. Specifically, I want two show two related bars next to each other. Is this supported?

opened May 27, 2022 by SoftCircuits 4
Open

The jsbin examples reference a cdn that no longer exists

This page references this jsbin which references this cdn which no longer exists, thus the jsbin is broken.

opened Aug 26, 2021 by Greg-J 0
Open

How to reload chart without whole page?

Hi. May i get some help? why it still doesn't work? thanks for help.

my code: