A demonstration of CSS 3D transformations

About

RGraph is a JavaScript charts library based on HTML5 SVG and canvas. RGraph is mature (over 17 years old) and has a wealth of features making it an ideal choice to use for showing charts on your website.

New datagrid in v6.21

In version 6.21 a new datagrid object has been added. This makes it easy to add static or dynamic data tables to your pages. It can be used whether you use the canvas or SVG libraries or entirely standalone.

Download

Get the latest version of RGraph (version 6.21, 10th April 2025) from the download page. You can read the changelog here. There's also older versions available, minified files and links to cdnjs.com hosted libraries.

Download »

License

RGraph can be used for free under the GPL or if that doesn't suit your situation there's an inexpensive (£129) commercial license available.

Example
Introduction
Known bugs
See also

Example

Here's an example of the code below that shows a 3D Line chart

Introduction

WebKit (which is used by Chrome, Safari, Edge, Opera and possibly others) and Firefox all support css 3D transformations. If you're tasked with supporting these browsers then by using 3D transformations you can add 3D effects to your charts. The effect is specified by adding a css property which is shown below. Because the effect changes the position of the canvas coordinates in relation to the page you must also tell RGraph to position the tooltips at the pageX/pageY coordinates which you do with the tooltipsCoordsPage option - as shown below.

<canvas id="cvs"
       width="600"
       height="250"
       style="-webkit-transform: rotate3d(0, 1, 0, 45deg) rotate3d(0, 0, 1, 5deg) rotate3d(1, 0, 0, -15deg);
              -moz-transform: rotate3d(0, 1, 0, 45deg) rotate3d(0, 0, 1, 5deg) rotate3d(1, 0, 0, -15deg);
              -o-transform: rotate3d(0, 1, 0, 45deg) rotate3d(0, 0, 1, 5deg) rotate3d(1, 0, 0, -15deg);
              -ms-transform: rotate3d(0, 1, 0, 45deg) rotate3d(0, 0, 1, 5deg) rotate3d(1, 0, 0, -15deg);
              transform: rotate3d(0, 1, 0, 45deg) rotate3d(0, 0, 1, 5deg) rotate3d(1, 0, 0, -15deg);
              box-shadow: 3px 3px 5px gray">[No canvas support]</canvas>

<script>
    new RGraph.Line({
        id: 'cvs',
        data: [4,6,8,4,1,3,4,2,8],
        options: {
            xaxisLabels: ['John', 'Lou','Kevin','Barry','John','Alex','Nick','Fred','June'],
            tooltips: '%{property:xaxisLabels[%{index}]}',
            tooltipsCss: {
                fontSize: '20pt'
            },
            tooltipsPositionStatic: false,
            tooltipsCoordsPage: true,
            marginInner: 10,
            tickmarksStyle: 'filledarrow',
            tickmarksSize: 15,
            backgroundGridVlines: false,
            backgroundGridBorder: false,
            xaxis: false,
            yaxis: false,
            textSize: 16,
            spline: true
        }
    }).draw();
</script>

Known bugs

Mozilla Firefox does not work correctly with tooltips.
Apple Safari sometimes has trouble with showing tooltips.
Google Chrome sometimes has trouble with showing tooltips.

HOWTO: Use CSS 3D transformations

Example

Introduction

Known bugs

See also