culture: String

CanvasJS supports localization of various culture/language/country specific elements in the StockChart like number formatting style – where you can choose which character to use as a decimal separator or as a digit group separator (also referred to as a thousand separator). It also allows you to localize text inside UI elements such as “Save as PNG”, “Save as JPG”, “Print”. By default CanvasJS is set to Neutral English Culture – “en”.

Default: “en”
Note:
  • Currently “en” is the only available culture by default. If you want to support other cultures, you need to add respective culture.

Adding a new cultureInfo

To support other cultures, you can add a new cultureInfo object that defines the parameter that needs to be customized. Cultures that are added using cultureInfo object are global and hence can be used by all the StockCharts available within a page.

CanvasJS.addCultureInfo("es",
 {
   decimalSeparator: ".",
   digitGroupSeparator: ",",
   days: ["domingo", "lunes", "martes", "miércoles", "jueves", "viernes", "sábado"],
});

Using the newly added cultureInfo object in StockChart.

var stockChart = new CanvasJS.StockChart("container",
{
 .
 .
 culture: "es",
 .
 .
});
stockChart.render();

cultureInfo Attributes

Applies To Attribute Type Default Options/Examples Remark
cultureInfo decimalSeparator String “.” “. “, ”,” Character used to separate fractional part from the whole number.
cultureInfo digitGroupSeparator String “,” “,”, “.” Also referred to as Thousand Separator.
cultureInfo zoomText String “Zoom” “zoom”, … Text is shown inside the Button till v1.4.
v1.5 onwards Text is shown as tooltip.
cultureInfo panText String “Pan” “pan”, … Text is shown inside the Button till v1.4.
v1.5 onwards Text is shown as tooltip.
cultureInfo resetText String “Reset” “reset”, … Text is shown inside the Button till v1.4.
v1.5 onwards Text is shown as tooltip.
cultureInfo savePNGText String “Save as PNG” “save as png”, … Set text is shown instead of Save as PNG.
cultureInfo saveJPGText String “Save as JPG” “save as jpg”, … Set text is shown instead of Save as JPG.
cultureInfo printText String “Print” “print chart”, … Set text is shown instead of Print.
cultureInfo menuText String “More Options” “more options”, … Tool Tip for Menu Button.
cultureInfo days Array of strings [“Sunday”, “Monday”, “Tuesday”, “Wednesday”, “Thursday”, “Friday”, “Saturday”] [“domingo”, “lunes”, “martes”, “miércoles”, “jueves”, “viernes”, “sábado”] Day names starting from Sunday. Should be exactly 7 in total.
cultureInfo shortDays Array of strings [“Sun”, “Mon”, “Tue”, “Wed”, “Thu”, “Fri”, “Sat”] Short Day names starting from Sunday. Should be exactly 7 in total.
cultureInfo months Array of strings [“January”, “February”, “March”, “April”, “May”, “June”, “July”, “August”, “September”, “October”, “November”, “December”] Custom Months Array Month Names starting from January
cultureInfo shortMonths Array of String [“Jan”, “Feb”, “Mar”, “Apr”, “May”, “Jun”, “Jul”, “Aug”, “Sep”, “Oct”, “Nov”, “Dec”] Custom Short Days Array Short Month Names starting from January
cultureInfo rangeSelector Object {rangeText: “Range”, fromText: “From”, toText: “To”} {rangeText: “Rango”, fromText: “De”, toText: “A”} Set text will be shown instead of Range, From & To.
rangeSelector rangeText String “Range” “Rango”, “Range”,… Set text will be shown instead of Range.
rangeSelector fromText String “From” “De”, “From”,… Set text will be shown instead of From.
rangeSelector toText String “To” “A”, “To”,… Set text will be shown instead of To.

Below is an example showing how to display month name in spanish.

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