jqplot tooltip on bar chart

Question

I'm using the jquery plugin jqplot for plotting some bar charts. on hover, I'd like to display the tick for the bar and its value on a tooltip. I've tried

highlighter: { show: true, 
            showTooltip: true,      // show a tooltip with data point values.
            tooltipLocation: 'nw',  // location of tooltip: n, ne, e, se, s, sw, w, nw.
            tooltipAxes: 'both',    // which axis values to display in the tooltip, x, y or both.
            lineWidthAdjust: 2.5   // pixels to add to the size line stroking the data point marker
            }

but it doesn't work. the bar visually gets lighter, and there's a small dot on the top (which would ideally go away--probably from line chart renderer stuff), but there is no tooltip anywhere. Anyone know how I can do this? I'll have lots of bars so the x-axis will be cluttered and kind of a mess if I show them down there only.

Answer 1

I go through jqplot.highlighter.js and find an undocumented property: tooltipContentEditor. I use it to customize the tooltip to display x-axis label.

Use something like this:

highlighter:{
        show:true,
        tooltipContentEditor:tooltipContentEditor
    },

function tooltipContentEditor(str, seriesIndex, pointIndex, plot) {
    // display series_label, x-axis_tick, y-axis value
    return plot.series[seriesIndex]["label"] + ", " + plot.data[seriesIndex][pointIndex];
}