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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 a global theme for our charts


A Highcharts theme is a collection of predefined styles that are applied before a chart is instantiated. A theme will be applied to all the charts on the page after the point of its inclusion, given that the styling options have not been modified within the chart instantiation. This provides us with an easy way to apply custom branding to charts without the need to define styles over and over again.

In the following example, we will create a basic global theme for our charts. This way, we will get familiar with the fundamentals of Highcharts theming and some API methods.

We will define our theme inside a separate JavaScript file to make the code reusable and keep things clean. Our theme will be contained in an options object that will, in turn, contain styling for different Highcharts components.

Consider the following code placed in a file named custom-theme.js. This is a basic implementation of a Highcharts custom theme that includes colors and basic...

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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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