Bar labels

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chartist-plugin-barlabels@0.0.5

Writes each value at the end of its bar.

Author: Matt Gibbs
Source: GitHub · npm
License: WTFPL
Downloads: 2,585 a month (October 14, 2026)
Last release: 2016
Charts: Bar

See it run

src/main.ts

import 'chartist/styles.css';
import { barChart } from 'chartist';
import { fromLegacyPlugin } from 'chartist/compat';

// Plugin scripts register on the global `Chartist`.
const { plugins } = Chartist;

barChart(
  '#chart',
  {
    labels: ['Apples', 'Pears', 'Plums', 'Cherries'],
    series: [[42, 28, 35, 51]]
  },
  {
    chartPadding: { top: 25 },
    plugins: [fromLegacyPlugin(plugins.ctBarLabels())]
  }
);

Live

Use it on your site

Runs on v2 with chartist/compat. A script: load it after importing chartist/compat, which sets up the global it reads. With the UMD build or a bundler

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartist@2.0.0-rc.2/dist/index.min.css">
<script type="module">
  import 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartist@2.0.0-rc.2/dist/compat.min.js';
</script>
<script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartist-plugin-barlabels@0.0.5/dist/chartist-plugin-barlabels.js"></script>
<script type="module">
  import { lineChart } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartist@2.0.0-rc.2/dist/index.min.js';
  import { fromLegacyPlugin } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chartist@2.0.0-rc.2/dist/compat.min.js';

  lineChart('#chart', data, {
    plugins: [fromLegacyPlugin(Chartist.plugins.ctBarLabels())]
  });
</script>