General Vizualization Settings
Overview
Most of the styles and visualization settings consist of several typical elements, this document gives a brief explanation on each of them and provides a direction for the further reading.
Full listing of all elements nodes and attributes described can be obtained in XML Reference.
Elements
Most of the settings described below are not used alone and work in complex. For example <background> always includes <fill/>, <border/> and almost always - <hatch_fill/>. You should always try to change settings in complex to get a desired result.
fill
<fill/> node describes how a fill - an inner area of an element is colored, fill can be a simple color, color with an opacity, gradient or image.
Please see a most typical fill settings and description in Chart Background Tutorial. These settings are all the same for all elements.
hatch-fill
<hatch_fill/> - hatch fill covers background with the given repeating pattern of the defined size, these fills are extremely useful for black and white printing and for those who are color-blind. And, of course, they can be simpley used to get a nice pattern on any element.
Please see a most typical fill settings and description in Chart Background Tutorial. These settings are all the same for all elements.
border, line
All borders and lines are set in the same style, please refer to Borders and Lines Tutorial to learn about this.
font
Font in gauges has some special options, please learn about them in Resizing tutorials, general font configuration is described in Font Tutorial.
effects
For better visual appearance AnyChart allows to apply effects almost to all objects and texts on the chart. There are several types of effects available and they can be combined together. In this tutorial all effects attributes and settings are described.