Highcharts: Chart does not resize properly by maki

Question

I am using HighCharts 4.0.4 and I have a chart with a custom legend in this way:

<div class="wrapper">
    <div class="element">
        <div id="chart"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="legend">
        Legend
    </div>
</div>

The CSS looks like this. The wrapper is a table, so that I can use in the legend with table-cell a vertical-align: middle. I want to have both 50% of the width of the wrapper.

.wrapper {
  display: table;
  width: 100%;
}

.element {
  display: table-cell;
  width: 50%;
}

.legend {
  display: table-cell;
  width: 50%;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

#chart {
  width: 100%;
}

The problem is, I created a JSFiddle here, "running" the code if the output/result window is small, I see the 50%:50%. Resizing the output window and make it larger, everything is okay, the 50%:50% is okay, but making the output window smaller, the chart does not resize properly.

I saw some solutions with $(window).resize();. In my case, I tried to use the outerHeight, but the values only changes if I make the screen size bigger. So I found this solution which works:

$('#chart').highcharts().setSize(
  $(".wrapper").width() / 2, $('#chart').highcharts().height, doAnimation = true
);

But is there also a solution which does not need to use JavaScript, only HTML and CSS?

Answer 1

This should be done with just CSS... no resizing functions.

try adding position:absolute to your chart css property

The new css for #chart would look like this:

#chart {
    display: table-cell;
    position:absolute;
    width:50%;
}

I think this is the effect you want.

Check my Fiddle

note: I removed all resizing Javascript

---

Follow Up:

If you need to resize Highcharts on window resize with animation, you can do it with this syntax.

$(window).resize(function() {
    height = $(window).height()
    width = $(window).width() / 2
    $("#chart").highcharts().setSize(width, height, doAnimation = true);
});

I think this is more what you wanted using the Highchart setSize method with animation instead of CSS)

Fiddle

Answer 2

Something like this? For me, use perfect.

CSS:

.wrapper {
  display: table;
  width: 100%;
}

.element {
  display: table-cell;
  width: auto;
}

#chart {
  width: 100%;
}

.legend {
  display: table-cell;
  width: 70px;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

JS:

$('#chart').highcharts({

    xAxis: {
        categories: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 
            'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']
    },
    series: [{
        data: [29.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0, 135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6, 54.4]
    }]

});

$(window).resize(function() {

        $('#chart').highcharts({

    xAxis: {
        categories: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 
            'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']
    },
    series: [{
        data: [29.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0, 135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6, 54.4]
    }]

});

});

http://jsfiddle.net/L9gubqvy/9/