itemclick: Function

Sets the click event handler for the legend, which is triggered when the user clicks on a legend item. After the event is triggered, the event related data is passed as a parameter to the assigned event handler. Parameters passed to the function are shown in the Event Object section below.

var  chart =  new  CanvasJS.Chart("container",
{
 .
 .
 legend: {
  
   itemclick: function(e){
          alert( "Legend item clicked with type : " + e.dataSeries.type);
        }

 },

 .
 . 
});
chart.render();


Event Object

e:{ 
	x, 
	y,
        chart,
	dataPoint, 
	dataSeries, 
	dataPointIndex, 
	dataSeriesIndex
}



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  2. Is there any way of clicking on one of the data points and re-directing to another link? Basically making each point on the graph a link. Please let me know if there is a way to do that.

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