Shading evening hours on time X axis

[CMayo]

I have a chart which uses a time/date X-axis scale, one division per hour. I would like to shade evening hours, i.e. x-values 19:00 – 07:00 to more easily identify days and nights in the data… kind of like interlaced colors but the background shading would change on X values instead of just every other data point interval. Is this possible?

Fiddle:
https://jsfiddle.net/dr34a19m/2/

Example
https://ibb.co/1ThhFxd

[CMayo]

Just discovered that the fiddle I linked was bad. This one works: https://jsfiddle.net/cmayo/npu0hb6s/.

[Thangaraj Raman]

@cmayo,

You can use stripLines to shade the portion of the chart which displays evening data as shown in the code snippet below:

stripLines: [
  {
    startValue: new Date(2012,1,1,0,0,0),
    endValue: new Date(2012,1,1,7,0,0),
    color: "lightblue"
  },
  {
    startValue: new Date(2012,1,1,19,0,0),
    endValue: new Date(2012,1,2,7,0,0),
    color: "lightblue"
  },
  {
    startValue: new Date(2012,1,2,19,0,0),
    endValue: new Date(2012,1,3,7,0,0),
    color: "lightblue"
  },
]

Please take a look at this updated JSFiddle for a working example.

—
Thangaraj Raman
Team CanvasJS

[CMayo]

That’s perfect! Thank you so much!!