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zaferkadi / Highcharts Cheat Sheet
Created March 7, 2017 13:41 — forked from mulhoon/Highcharts Cheat Sheet
Highcharts Cheat Sheet
$('#container').highcharts({
chart: {
alignTicks: true, // When using multiple axis, the ticks of two or more opposite axes will automatically be aligned by adding ticks to the axis or axes with the least ticks.
animation: true, // Set the overall animation for all chart updating. Animation can be disabled throughout the chart by setting it to false here.
backgroundColor: '#FFF', // The background color or gradient for the outer chart area.
borderColor: '#4572A7', // The color of the outer chart border.
borderRadius: 5, // The corner radius of the outer chart border. In export, the radius defaults to 0. Defaults to 5.
borderWidth: 0, // The pixel width of the outer chart border.
className: null, // A CSS class name to apply to the charts container div, allowing unique CSS styling for each chart.
defaultSeriesType: 'line', // Alias of type.

Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

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