How to add label in chart.js for pie chart

Question

I am displaying Pie chart. But how to Display labels in pie charts.

Below is the chart.js code for pie chart.

this.Pie = function(data, options) {

  chart.Pie.defaults = {
    segmentShowStroke: true,
    segmentStrokeColor: "#fff",
    segmentStrokeWidth: 2,
    animation: true,
    animationSteps: 100,
    animationEasing: "easeOutBounce",
    animateRotate: true,
    animateScale: false,
    onAnimationComplete: null
  };

  var config = (options) ? mergeChartConfig(chart.Pie.defaults, options) : chart.Pie.defaults;

  return new Pie(data, config, context);
};

and below is the code of html file for displaying pie chart

code:

var data = [{
  value: 20,
  color: "#637b85"
}, {
  value: 30,
  color: "#2c9c69"
}, {
  value: 40,
  color: "#dbba34"
}, {
  value: 10,
  color: "#c62f29"
}];

var canvas = document.getElementById("hours");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
new Chart(ctx).Pie(data);

Answer 1

It is not necessary to use another library like newChart or use other people's pull requests to pull this off. All you have to do is define an options object and add the label wherever and however you want it in the tooltip.

var optionsPie = {
    tooltipTemplate: "<%= label %> - <%= value %>"
}

If you want the tooltip to be always shown you can make some other edits to the options:

 var optionsPie = {
        tooltipEvents: [],
        showTooltips: true,
        onAnimationComplete: function() {
            this.showTooltip(this.segments, true);
        },
        tooltipTemplate: "<%= label %> - <%= value %>"
    }

In your data items, you have to add the desired label property and value and that's all.

data = [
    {
        value: 480000,
        color:"#F7464A",
        highlight: "#FF5A5E",
        label: "Tobacco"
    }
];

Now, all you have to do is pass the options object after the data to the new Pie like this: new Chart(ctx).Pie(data,optionsPie) and you are done.

This probably works best for pies which are not very small in size.

Pie chart with labels