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Published inOct 2014
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Bilal Shahid
Bilal Shahid
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Bilal Shahid

Bilal Shahid is a web developer from Karachi, Pakistan. He has several years of experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, and he also knows how to program in C and C++. He is passionate about the open source movement, and his interests include data-driven UIs, the real-time Web, and code optimization. He was introduced to Highcharts while working on a big project dedicated to social media page management and analytics, and since then he has used it in several web projects. He works for Traffic Group Ltd., the largest independent digital services provider in the Middle East, where he works as a senior UI developer. He likes to read books in his spare time.
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Creating line charts with regular time intervals


In the following example, we will plot a line chart for hourly temperature data for Pittsburgh, PA, for January 1, 2013.

Since we are dealing with the date/time series with regular time intervals, we will declare the type property of xAxis to be datetime, and while passing the pointStart and pointInterval properties to the series, we can easily plot the data mentioned.

Let's start with our basic HTML template containing the following code:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>Highcharts Essentials</title>
</head>
<body>
  
  <div id="chart_container" style="width: 600px; height: 450px;"></div>

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/highcharts.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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Please note that for all the upcoming examples in this book, we will use...

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Bilal Shahid

Bilal Shahid is a web developer from Karachi, Pakistan. He has several years of experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, and he also knows how to program in C and C++. He is passionate about the open source movement, and his interests include data-driven UIs, the real-time Web, and code optimization. He was introduced to Highcharts while working on a big project dedicated to social media page management and analytics, and since then he has used it in several web projects. He works for Traffic Group Ltd., the largest independent digital services provider in the Middle East, where he works as a senior UI developer. He likes to read books in his spare time.
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