Highcharts Drilldown Pie Chart

In the previous chapters, we learned how to setup highcharts library and how to create a chart with required configurations using highcharts library in our webpage. Now, we will learn how to create a pie chart with drilldown options using highcharts library with examples.

Highcharts Drilldown Pie Chart Example

Following is the example of creating a pie chart with drilldown options by setting the required chart properties using highcharts library.

 

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<html>

<head>

    <title>Highcharts Drilldown Pie Chart</title>

    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"></script>

    <script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>

    <script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/drilldown.js"></script>

    <script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/exporting.js"></script>

    <script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/export-data.js"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">

        $(function() {

            // Create the chart

            Highcharts.chart('container', {

                chart: {

                    type: 'pie'

                },

                title: {

                    text: 'Browser market shares. January, 2018'

                },

                subtitle: {

                    text: 'Click the slices to view versions. Source: statcounter'

                },

                plotOptions: {

                    series: {

                        dataLabels: {

                            enabled: true,

                            format: '{point.name}: {point.y:.1f}%'

                        }

                    }

                },

                tooltip: {

                    headerFormat: '<span style="font-size:11px">{series.name}</span><br>',

                    pointFormat: '<span style="color:{point.color}">{point.name}</span>: <b>{point.y:.2f}%</b> of total<br/>'

                },

                series: [{

                    name: "Browsers",

                    colorByPoint: true,

                    data: [{

                        name: "Chrome",

                        y: 62.74,

                        drilldown: "Chrome"

                    }, {

                        name: "Firefox",

                        y: 10.57,

                        drilldown: "Firefox"

                    }, {

                        name: "Internet Explorer",

                        y: 7.23,

                        drilldown: "Internet Explorer"

                    }, {

                        name: "Safari",

                        y: 5.58,

                        drilldown: "Safari"

                    }, {

                        name: "Edge",

                        y: 4.02,

                        drilldown: "Edge"

                    }, {

                        name: "Opera",

                        y: 1.92,

                        drilldown: "Opera"

                    }, {

                        name: "Other",

                        y: 7.62,

                        drilldown: null

                    }]

                }],

                drilldown: {

                    series: [{

                        name: "Chrome",

                        id: "Chrome",

                        data: [

                            ["v65.0", 0.1],

                            ["v64.0", 1.3],

                            ["v63.0", 53.02],

                            ["v62.0", 1.4],

                            ["v61.0", 0.88],

                            ["v60.0", 0.56],

                            ["v59.0", 0.45],

                            ["v58.0", 0.49],

                            ["v57.0", 0.32],

                            ["v56.0", 0.29],

                            ["v55.0", 0.79],

                            ["v54.0", 0.18],

                            ["v51.0", 0.13],

                            ["v49.0", 2.16],

                            ["v48.0", 0.13],

                            ["v47.0", 0.11],

                            ["v43.0", 0.17],

                            ["v29.0", 0.26]

                        ]

                    }, {

                        name: "Firefox",

                        id: "Firefox",

                        data: [

                            ["v58.0", 1.02],

                            ["v57.0", 7.36],

                            ["v56.0", 0.35],

                            ["v55.0", 0.11],

                            ["v54.0", 0.1],

                            ["v52.0", 0.95],

                            ["v51.0", 0.15],

                            ["v50.0", 0.1],

                            ["v48.0", 0.31],

                            ["v47.0", 0.12]

                        ]

                    }, {

                        name: "Internet Explorer",

                        id: "Internet Explorer",

                        data: [

                            ["v11.0", 6.2],

                            ["v10.0", 0.29],

                            ["v9.0", 0.27],

                            ["v8.0", 0.47]

                        ]

                    }, {

                        name: "Safari",

                        id: "Safari",

                        data: [

                            ["v11.0", 3.39],

                            ["v10.1", 0.96],

                            ["v10.0", 0.36],

                            ["v9.1", 0.54],

                            ["v9.0", 0.13],

                            ["v5.1", 0.2]

                        ]

                    }, {

                        name: "Edge",

                        id: "Edge",

                        data: [

                            ["v16", 2.6],

                            ["v15", 0.92],

                            ["v14", 0.4],

                            ["v13", 0.1]

                        ]

                    }, {

                        name: "Opera",

                        id: "Opera",

                        data: [

                            ["v50.0", 0.96],

                            ["v49.0", 0.82],

                            ["v12.1", 0.14]

                        ]

                    }]

                }

            });

        });

    </script>

</head>

<body>

    <div id="container" style="width: 100%; height: 400px;"> </div>

</body>

</html>

If you observe the above example, we created a pie chart with drilldown options using highcharts library with required properties.

 

When we execute the above highcharts example, we will get the result like as shown below.

 

Highcharts Drilldown Pie Chart Example Result

 

This is how we can create a pie chart with drilldown options using highcharts library with required properties.