text - Sets the Chart Title Text| CanvasJS JavaScript Charts

text: String

Sets the Title’s text.

Default: null
Example: “Chart title”

Notes

var  chart =  new  CanvasJS.Chart("container",
{
 .
 .
 title:{
   text: "This is Title Text",
 },
 .
 .
});
chart.render();

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Comments 4

jamesf says:

May 20, 2013 at 1:56 am

Hi Sunil,

I may not know the title for the chart ahead of time. So for example I was trying to do this;

chart.title.text = ” a dynamic title gathered from a json file or json response”;

Then of course

chart.render;

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Jim
jamesf says:

May 20, 2013 at 1:58 am

I meant chart.render(); near the bottom not chart.render;
jamesf says:

May 20, 2013 at 3:42 am

I answered my own question it is:
chart.options.title.text = “some new thing you want here”;
chart.render();

Assuming the chart is named chart via:
Sunil Urs says:

May 20, 2013 at 11:59 am

James,

I can confirm that “chart.options.title.text” is the right way to go.

We haven’t added this in documentation because it is fully not supported yet – around 95% of parameters are supported as of now. So we just need to support few more parameters before making it public.

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text: String