An axis is composed of several elements, such as labels, line, tick marks and titles. There are several properties available in FlexChart that let you customize these elements, for both X and Y axes. Some of the important properties are listed below.

• TitleStyle - Gets or sets the axis title style.
• AxisType - Lets you select the axis type.
• Style - Lets you select the axis style..
• LabelAngel - Lets you get or set the rotation for axis labels.
• MajorTickColor - Lets you select the color for major tick marks.
• MajorTickWidth - Lets you select the thickness of major tick marks.
• MajorUnit - Lets you set the major unit of the axis.
• Origin - Lets you set the origin.
• Title - Lets you add a title to the axis.
• Fill- Lets you select the color for the axis title.

The image below shows a FlexChart with customized axes titles.

The following code examples demonstrate how to customize the axes of the FlexChart control in C#. This examples uses the sample created in the Customize Appearance section.

In Code

mChart.AxisX.Title = "Months";
mChart.AxisX.TitleStyle.FontSize = 15;
mChart.AxisX.TitleStyle.Fill = Color.White;
mChart.AxisY.Title = "Sales and Expenses";
mChart.AxisY.TitleStyle.FontSize = 15;
mChart.AxisY.TitleStyle.Fill = Color.White;

Customizing Axis Origin

Users can customize the origin to plot the data points in two quadrants. You can use Origin method to set the origin for both the axes at a particular point. The image given below shows the origin of X axis set to 10,000.

In Code

The following code example illustrates how to customize the X-axis origin in C#. This example uses the sample created in Customize Appearance section. You can also set Y-axis origin in code behind in a way similar to that given in code below.

//set X axis Origin
mChart.AxisX.Origin = 10000;