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More Label Placement Options for Serial Chart

jcarlson — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:52:34 GMT

With a Serial Chart, I'd love it if the labels could have label placement options (particularly for bar charts), akin to Excel.

What we get is the "outside end" placement, if we're using the Excel vocabulary. Switching to a stacked chart style gives us "center" labels.

I understand why "outside end" would be a bad choice with stacked bars, but why can't I pick "center" labels for non-stacked bars? Or pick the labels to be "inside base / end" for either?

Re: More Label Placement Options for Serial Chart

BrandonCraft — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:19:27 GMT

Agreed. More label placement options in general would be great, but this one in particular is a great idea.

Re: More Label Placement Options for Serial Chart

JohnNergeBrooklynPark — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:13:52 GMT

Agree with this an adding another use case. When I'm charting temporal data I've noticed that the horizontal orientation places the labels between the bars. I get how this makes sense since the data falls between the two years, but it also makes it confusing which year each bar represents. It'd be nice to be able to center the label the same way that happens when the serial chart is in vertical orientation and each bar represents data for that year.

Vertical chart - labels centered

Horizontal chart - labels offset

Re: More Label Placement Options for Serial Chart

DebSF — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:12:32 GMT

For line charts it's the tick marks that appear to be in the "wrong" place. E.g. below on the horizontal category access I'd expect them to be in the middle, above the years and in line with the actual dots on the graph.