function createLegend(chart, container) {
var dataKeys = Object.keys(chart.internal.data.xs);
var names = chart.data.names();
console.log("createLegend", dataKeys, names, chart);
$(container).css("max-height", "none");
$(container).css("width", chart.internal.currentWidth);
d3.select(container).insert('div', '.chart').attr('class', 'legend').selectAll('div')
.data(dataKeys)
.enter().append('div')
.attr('class', 'legend-item')
.attr('data-id', function(id) {
return id;
})
.each(function(id) {
d3.select(this)
.append('span').style('background-color', chart.color(id)).attr('class', 'legend-box');
var text = names[id];
if (!text) text = id;
d3.select(this)
.append('span').html(text).attr('class', 'legend-text');
})
.on('mouseover', function(id) {
chart.focus(id);
})
.on('mouseout', function(id) {
chart.revert();
})
.on('click', function(id) {
$(this).toggleClass("c3-legend-item-hidden")
chart.toggle(id);
$(container).css("max-height", "none");
});
}
var chart1 = c3.generate({
bindto: '#chart1',
size: {
height: 250,
width: 400
},
data: {
x: 'x',
columns: [
['x', 'one', 'two'],
['data1', 30, 200],
['data2', 130, 100],
['data3', 30, 200],
['data4', 130, 100],
['data5', 30, 1200],
['data6', 130, 50],
['data7', 30, 20],
['data8', 130, 100],
['data9', 230, 10]
],
type: 'bar',
names: {
data1: 'Long Name 1',
data2: 'Long Name 2',
data3: 'Long Name 3',
data4: 'Long Name 4',
data5: 'Long Name 5',
data6: 'Long Name 6',
data7: 'Long Name 7',
data8: 'Long Name 8',
data9: 'Long Name 9',
},
groups: [
['data1', 'data2', 'data3', 'data4', 'data5', 'data6', 'data7', 'data8', 'data9']
]
},
axis: {
x: {
type: 'category' // this needed to load string x value
}
},
legend: {
show: false
},
onrendered: function() {
$('#chart1').css("max-height", "none");
}
});
createLegend(chart1, '#chart1');
/* only to highlight chart container */
.chart {
background: lightgray;
border: solid 1px red;
}
.legend-box {
display: inline-block;
margin-left: 7px;
margin-right: 7px;
padding: 5px;
}
.legend-item {
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block;
}
.legend-text {
font-family: "Helvetica";
font-size:12px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.legend {
width: 100%;
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
overflow: hidden;
}
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.0.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/c3/0.4.18/c3.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.17/d3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/c3/0.4.18/c3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div id="chart1" class="chart"></div>