How to move labels' position on Chart.js pie

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I'm using Chart.js and I'm trying to move the labels on my Pie chart outside of the pie area (see red X's):

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This my code right now:

<div class="container" id="pieContainer">
    <h4 class="title">Title</h4>
    <center><canvas id="pie"></canvas></center>
</div>

<script>                                  
    var pieData = [
    {
        value: 39,
        color:"#335478",
        label: "Blue"
    },
    {
        value : 4,
        color : "#7f7f7f",
        label: "Grey"
    },
    {
        value : 57,
        color : "#99cb55",
        label: "Green"
    }
    ];

    var optionsPie = {
        responsive : true,
        tooltipEvents: [],
        showTooltips: true,
        onAnimationComplete: function() {
             this.showTooltip(this.segments, true);
        },
        tooltipTemplate: "<%= label %> - <%= value %>%"
    };
    new Chart(document.getElementById("pie").getContext("2d")).Pie(pieData, optionsPie);
</script>

I don't want to use legends and I couldn't find a built-in method to move labels. Is there a way to do that without changing chart.js? What's the best way to achieve my goal?

4 Answers

I recently ran into the same issue, and chartsjs-plugin-labels solved the issue for me.

Example:

import {Chart} from 'chartjs';
import 'chartjs-plugin-labels';

let options = {
  plugins: {
    labels: {
      position: 'outside',
      render: (args) => {
        return `${args.label}: ${args.value}%`;
      }
    }
  }
}

let data = {
  datasets: [
    {
      data: [39, 4, 57],
      labels: ['Blue', 'Gray', 'Green'],
    },
  ],
}

new Chart(ctx, {
  type: 'pie',
  data: data,
  options: options
}

If you want pointed lines with outlabels like this

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then use chartjs-plugin-piechart-outlabels npm link

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