Flot chart title option? - graph

Question

Does Flot have an option that can be set to give the chart a title? I'm not seeing one for the overall chart, just for the axes.
But I might have missed something.

Answer 1

I do not think this option exists. It is pretty easy, though, to title the plot using regular HTML. Just wrap a div around your "placeholder" div and add the title text to that.

Answer 2

after drawing flot chart (plot function) fill canvas with text (jsFiddle). Advantage of my solution is that you can save chart as image containing title on it.
example:
var c=document.getElementsByTagName("canvas")[0];
var canvas=c.getContext("2d");
var cx = c.width / 2;
var text="Flot chart title";
canvas.font="bold 20px sans-serif";
canvas.textAlign = 'center';
canvas.fillText(text,cx,35);

Answer 3

You can use hooks for that. For instance use the overlay hook, and implement your overlay functionality in a separate OverlayHandler
Here is an example, where the chartElement, chartDataand chartOptions are your HTML element and flot data and flot options, respectively.:
var plotOverlayHandler = function(plot, cvs) {
if(!plot) { return; }
var cvsWidth = plot.width() / 2;
var text = 'Flot chart-title!';
cvs.font = "bold 16px Open Sans";
cvs.fillStyle = "#666666";
cvs.textAlign = 'center';
cvs.fillText(text, cvsWidth, 30);
return cvs;
};
var plot = $.plot(chartElement, chartData, chartOptions);
plot.hooks.drawOverlay.push( plotOverlayHandler );
When exporting the canvas via the native toDataURL method, simply apply the OverlayHandler first. This allows for greater flexibility.
var elCanvas = $('canvas.flot-base').first();
var canvas = plotCanvasOverlay(elCanvas, elCanvas.get(0).getContext('2d'))
var dataUrl = canvas.toDataURL('image/png');

Answer 4

Pioja's answer is indeed a great one. His jsFiddle shows the full details. It is important to have the following included in your options:
canvas: true,
grid: {
margin: { top:50 }
}
This will then insert a nice chart title which can be included in the image if you export it.

Answer 5

Building on pioja's answer, the title can be set directly after the plot has been made with:
var plot = $.plot($("#"+PlotPlaceholder), data, options);
By using the getCanvas function:
var c = plot.getCanvas();
Now, just follow pioja's code to get:
var canvas=c.getContext("2d");
var cx = c.width / 2;
var text="Flot chart title";
canvas.font="bold 20px sans-serif";
canvas.textAlign = 'center';
canvas.fillText(text,cx,35);