Line Segment

Overview

The Line annotation allows to add a line segment to a chart.

This article explains how to add a Line and configure its basic and visual settings. You can find more settings and other useful information in the articles describing annotations in general:

Basic Settings

To add a Line annotation to a chart, call the line() method of the annotations() object.

Next, use the xAnchor(), valueAnchor(), secondXAnchor(), and secondValueAnchor() methods to set 2 points that determine the position of the line segment. Usually, the most convenient way to do this is object notation:

// create a stock chart
chart = anychart.stock();

// create a plot on the chart
var plot = chart.plot(0);

// access the annotations() object of the plot to work with annotations
var controller = plot.annotations();

// create a Line annotation
controller.line({
    xAnchor: "2006-07-30",
    valueAnchor: 17.24,
    secondXAnchor: "2008-04-06",
    secondValueAnchor: 23.38
});

This is how it looks like:

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Visual Settings

You can also configure the visual settings of a Line annotation:

In the sample below, there are two Line annotations with some of the visual settings configured (by using an object in the first case and methods in the second):

// create the first Line annotation and configure its visual settings
line1 = controller.line({
    xAnchor: "2006-07-30",
    valueAnchor: 17.24,
    secondXAnchor: "2008-04-06",
    secondValueAnchor: 23.38,
    hoverStroke: "2 #FF0000",
    selectStroke: "5 #FF0000"
});

// create the second Line annotation
line2 = controller.line();

// set the position of the second annotation
line2.xAnchor("2004-06-06");
line2.valueAnchor(23.82);
line2.secondXAnchor("2007-01-07");
line2.secondValueAnchor(28.92);
 
// configure the visual settings of the second annotation
line2.stroke("#2196F3", 3, "10 2");

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