Formatting the Chart Border

How to:

The border property defines the border of the drawing area.

The chart border encloses the drawing area, which contains the chart and its frame, the axis labels, the legend, and the chart title, subtitle, and footnote,

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Syntax: How to Format the Chart Border
border: {
   width: number, 
   color: color,
   dash: 'dstring'
}

where:

number

Is a number of pixels that defines the width of the border around the drawing area. The default value is zero (no border).

color

Can be:

A string, enclosed in single quotation marks, that defines a color by name or numeric specification, or that defines a gradient. The default value is 'transparent'.

A JSON gradient definition.

For information about specifying colors and gradients, see Colors and Gradients.

'dstring'

Is a string that defines the dash style of the border. The default value is '' (a solid line). Use a string of numbers that defines the width of a dash in pixels followed by the width of the gap between dashes in pixels (for example, dash: '1 1' draws a dotted line).

Multiple dashes can be defined within the dash string (for example, '2 4 4 2'), in which case, the dash types will alternate along the border.
Example: Formatting the Chart Border

The following request against the GGSALES data source generates a border that is red, 4 pixels wide, and has a dash in which the length of each dash is 4 pixels and the gap between dashes is 2 pixels:

GRAPH FILE GGSALES
SUM DOLLARS BUDDOLLARS UNITS BUDUNITS
BY REGION
ON GRAPH PCHOLD FORMAT JSCHART
ON GRAPH SET LOOKGRAPH VBAR
ON GRAPH SET STYLE *
*GRAPH_JS
border: {
   width: 4, 
   color: 'red',
   dash: '4 2'  
}
*END
INCLUDE=ENIADefault_combine.sty,$
ENDSTYLE
END

The output is:

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