How to display text on ChartJS bar chart?

Question

I need to write text into a bar chart in a chart using chart.js

var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart");
 var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
     type: 'bar',
     data:data,
     options: {           
         scales: {
             yAxes: [{
                 ticks: {
                     beginAtZero:true
                 }
             }]
         }
     },
     responsive : true,
     showTooltips : false,
     showInlineValues : true,
     centeredInllineValues : true,
     tooltipCaretSize : 0,
     tooltipTemplate : "<%= value %>"
 });

The above code does not work...

I need something like this:

Answer 1

If you want to render centered text for each element, there is an easier way:

Chart.helpers.each(meta.data.forEach(function (bar, index) {
    var centerPoint = bar.getCenterPoint();
    ctx.fillText(dataset.data[index], centerPoint.x, centerPoint.y));
}),this)

It seems that 'getCenterPoint' is not available in version 2.1.3 (which you use in your example). I tried it with 2.5.0 and it works

Answer 2

Add this code to your options object:

animation: {
  onComplete: function () {
    var chartInstance = this.chart;
    var ctx = chartInstance.ctx;
    console.log(chartInstance);
    var height = chartInstance.controller.boxes[0].bottom;
    ctx.textAlign = "center";
    Chart.helpers.each(this.data.datasets.forEach(function (dataset, i) {
      var meta = chartInstance.controller.getDatasetMeta(i);
      Chart.helpers.each(meta.data.forEach(function (bar, index) {
        ctx.fillText(dataset.data[index], bar._model.x, height - ((height - bar._model.y) / 2));
      }),this)
    }),this);
  }
}

https://jsfiddle.net/h4p8f5xL/

Update 2

Surround the canvas with a container with the desired width and height

<div style="width: 100%; height: 500px">
    <canvas id="myChart" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
</div>

And add the following to your options object

// Boolean - whether or not the chart should be responsive and resize when the browser does.
responsive: true,
// Boolean - whether to maintain the starting aspect ratio or not when responsive, if set to false, will take up entire container
maintainAspectRatio: false,