legendItemHover

Fires when an legend item is hovered.

Event Data

e.element Object

The DOM element of the plot area.

e.pointIndex Number

The point index.

e.sender kendo.dataviz.ui.Chart

The widget instance which fired the event.

e.series Object

The series options.

e.seriesIndex Number

The series index.

e.text String

The name of the series.

Example - subscribe to the "legendItemHover" event during initialization

<div id="chart"></div>
<script>
  $("#chart").kendoChart({
    series: [
      { data: [6, 2, 3], name: "Task 1" },
      { data: [1, 5, 2], name: "Task 2" }
    ],
    legendItemHover: function(e){
/* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
        console.log("Hovered an item with text: " + e.text);
    }
  });
</script>

Example - subscribe to the "legendItemHover" event after initialization

<div id="chart"></div>
<script>
  function chart_legendHover(e){
/* The result can be observed in the DevTools(F12) console of the browser. */
    console.log("Hovered an item with text: " + e.text);
  }
  $("#chart").kendoChart({
    series: [
      { data: [6, 2, 3], name: "Task 1" },
      { data: [1, 5, 2], name: "Task 2" }
    ]
  });
  var chart = $("#chart").data("kendoChart");
  chart.bind("legendItemHover", chart_legendHover);
</script>