---
id: Area chart
section: charts
propComponents: [
  'Chart',
  'ChartArea',
  'ChartAxis',
  'ChartGroup',
  'ChartThreshold',
  'ChartVoronoiContainer'
]
hideDarkMode: true
---

import { Chart, ChartArea, ChartAxis, ChartGroup, ChartThreshold, ChartThemeColor, ChartLegendTooltip, ChartVoronoiContainer, createContainer, getResizeObserver } from '@patternfly/react-charts';

## Introduction
Note: PatternFly React charts live in its own package at [@patternfly/react-charts](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@patternfly/react-charts)!

PatternFly React charts are based on the [Victory](https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-chart/) chart library, along with additional functionality, custom components, and theming for PatternFly. This provides a collection of React based components you can use to build PatternFly patterns with consistent markup, styling, and behavior.

Learn to build an area chart using a Katacoda tutorial starting with a simple chart, adding multiple datasets, tooltips, axis labels, a legend, and concluding by changing the theme color. You'll learn how to use React chart components together to build a consistent user experience.

[Start course](https://katacoda.com/patternfly/courses/react-charts/area-chart)

## Examples
### Basic with right aligned legend
```js
import React from 'react';
import { Chart, ChartArea, ChartAxis, ChartGroup, ChartVoronoiContainer } from '@patternfly/react-charts';
// import '@patternfly/patternfly/patternfly-charts.css'; // Required for mix-blend-mode CSS property

<div style={{ height: '200px', width: '800px' }}>
  <Chart
    ariaDesc="Average number of pets"
    ariaTitle="Area chart example"
    containerComponent={<ChartVoronoiContainer labels={({ datum }) => `${datum.name}: ${datum.y}`} constrainToVisibleArea />}
    legendData={[{ name: 'Cats' }, { name: 'Dogs' }, { name: 'Birds' }]}
    legendOrientation="vertical"
    legendPosition="right"
    height={200}
    maxDomain={{y: 9}}
    name="chart1"
    padding={{
      bottom: 50,
      left: 50,
      right: 200, // Adjusted to accommodate legend
      top: 50
    }}
    width={800}
  >
    <ChartAxis />
    <ChartAxis dependentAxis showGrid/>
    <ChartGroup>
      <ChartArea
        data={[
          { name: 'Cats', x: '2015', y: 3 },
          { name: 'Cats', x: '2016', y: 4 },
          { name: 'Cats', x: '2017', y: 8 },
          { name: 'Cats', x: '2018', y: 6 }
        ]}
        interpolation="monotoneX"
      />
      <ChartArea
        data={[
          { name: 'Dogs', x: '2015', y: 2 },
          { name: 'Dogs', x: '2016', y: 3 },
          { name: 'Dogs', x: '2017', y: 4 },
          { name: 'Dogs', x: '2018', y: 5 },
          { name: 'Dogs', x: '2019', y: 6 }
        ]}
        interpolation="monotoneX"
      />
      <ChartArea
        data={[
          { name: 'Birds', x: '2015', y: 1 },
          { name: 'Birds', x: '2016', y: 2 },
          { name: 'Birds', x: '2017', y: 3 },
          { name: 'Birds', x: '2018', y: 2 },
          { name: 'Birds', x: '2019', y: 4 }
        ]}
        interpolation="monotoneX"
      />
    </ChartGroup>
  </Chart>
</div>
```

### Cyan with bottom aligned legend and axis label

This demonstrates how to combine cursor and voronoi containers to display tooltips along with a cursor.

```js
import React from 'react';
import { Chart, ChartArea, ChartAxis, ChartGroup, ChartThemeColor, ChartLegendTooltip, createContainer } from '@patternfly/react-charts';
// import '@patternfly/patternfly/patternfly-charts.css'; // Required for mix-blend-mode CSS property

class BottomAlignedLegend extends React.Component {
  render() {
    // Note: Container order is important
    const CursorVoronoiContainer = createContainer("voronoi", "cursor");
    const legendData = [{ childName: 'cats', name: 'Cats' }, { childName: 'dogs', name: 'Dogs' }, { childName: 'birds', name: 'Birds' }];

    return (
      <div style={{ height: '250px', width: '650px' }}>
        <Chart
          ariaDesc="Average number of pets"
          ariaTitle="Area chart example"
          containerComponent={
            <CursorVoronoiContainer
              cursorDimension="x"
              labels={({ datum }) => `${datum.y}`}
              labelComponent={<ChartLegendTooltip legendData={legendData} title={(datum) => datum.x}/>}
              mouseFollowTooltips
              voronoiDimension="x"
              voronoiPadding={50}
            />
          }
          legendData={legendData}
          legendPosition="bottom"
          height={250}
          name="chart2"
          padding={{
            bottom: 100, // Adjusted to accommodate legend
            left: 50,
            right: 50,
            top: 50,
          }}
          maxDomain={{y: 9}}
          themeColor={ChartThemeColor.cyan}
          width={650}
        >
          <ChartAxis label="Years"/>
          <ChartAxis dependentAxis showGrid/>
          <ChartGroup>
            <ChartArea
              data={[
                { x: '2015', y: 3 },
                { x: '2016', y: 4 },
                { x: '2017', y: 8 },
                { x: '2018', y: 6 }
              ]}
              interpolation="monotoneX"
              name="cats"
            />
            <ChartArea
              data={[
                { x: '2015', y: 2 },
                { x: '2016', y: 3 },
                { x: '2017', y: 4 },
                { x: '2018', y: 5 },
                { x: '2019', y: 6 }
              ]}
              interpolation="monotoneX"
              name="dogs"
            />
            <ChartArea
              data={[
                { x: '2015', y: 1 },
                { x: '2016', y: 2 },
                { x: '2017', y: 3 },
                { x: '2018', y: 2 },
                { x: '2019', y: 4 }
              ]}
              interpolation="monotoneX"
              name="birds"
            />
          </ChartGroup>
        </Chart>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
```

### Multi-color (unordered) bottom-left aligned legend and responsive container
```js
import React from 'react';
import { Chart, ChartArea, ChartAxis, ChartGroup, ChartThemeColor, ChartVoronoiContainer, getResizeObserver } from '@patternfly/react-charts';
// import '@patternfly/patternfly/patternfly-charts.css'; // Required for mix-blend-mode CSS property

class MultiColorChart extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.containerRef = React.createRef();
    this.observer = () => {};
    this.state = {
      width: 0
    };
    this.handleResize = () => {
      if (this.containerRef.current && this.containerRef.current.clientWidth) {
        this.setState({ width: this.containerRef.current.clientWidth });
      }
    };
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.observer = getResizeObserver(this.containerRef.current, this.handleResize);
    this.handleResize();
  }

  componentWillUnmount() {
    this.observer();
  }

  render() {
    const { width } = this.state;

    return (
      <div ref={this.containerRef} style={{ height: '225px' }}>
        <Chart
          ariaDesc="Average number of pets"
          ariaTitle="Area chart example"
          containerComponent={<ChartVoronoiContainer labels={({ datum }) => `${datum.name}: ${datum.y}`} constrainToVisibleArea />}
          legendData={[{ name: 'Cats' }, { name: 'Dogs' }, { name: 'Birds' }]}
          legendPosition="bottom-left"
          height={225}
          name="chart3"
          padding={{
            bottom: 75, // Adjusted to accommodate legend
            left: 50,
            right: 50,
            top: 50,
          }}
          maxDomain={{y: 9}}
          themeColor={ChartThemeColor.multiUnordered}
          width={width}
        >
          <ChartAxis />
          <ChartAxis dependentAxis showGrid />
          <ChartGroup>
            <ChartArea
              data={[
                { name: 'Cats', x: '2015', y: 3 },
                { name: 'Cats', x: '2016', y: 4 },
                { name: 'Cats', x: '2017', y: 8 },
                { name: 'Cats', x: '2018', y: 6 }
              ]}
              interpolation="monotoneX"
            />
            <ChartArea
              data={[
                { name: 'Dogs', x: '2015', y: 2 },
                { name: 'Dogs', x: '2016', y: 3 },
                { name: 'Dogs', x: '2017', y: 4 },
                { name: 'Dogs', x: '2018', y: 5 },
                { name: 'Dogs', x: '2019', y: 6 }
              ]}
              interpolation="monotoneX"
            />
            <ChartArea
              data={[
                { name: 'Birds', x: '2015', y: 1 },
                { name: 'Birds', x: '2016', y: 2 },
                { name: 'Birds', x: '2017', y: 3 },
                { name: 'Birds', x: '2018', y: 2 },
                { name: 'Birds', x: '2019', y: 4 }
              ]}
              interpolation="monotoneX"
            />
          </ChartGroup>
        </Chart>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
```

## Documentation
### Tips
- See Victory's [FAQ](https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/faq)
- For single data points or zero values, you may want to set the `domain` prop
- `ChartLegend` may be used as a standalone component, instead of using `legendData`
- The `theme` and `themeColor` props should be applied at the most top level component
- Use `ChartGroup` to apply theme color scales and other properties to multiple components

### Note
Currently, the generated documention below is not able to resolve type definitions from Victory imports. For the 
components used in the examples above, Victory pass-thru props are also documented here:

- For `Chart` props, see [VictoryChart](https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-chart)
- For `ChartArea` props, see [VictoryArea](https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-area)
- For `ChartAxis` props, see [VictoryAxis](https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-axis)
- For `ChartGroup` props, see [VictoryGroup](https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-group)
- For `ChartVoronoiContainer` props, see [VictoryVoronoiContainer](https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-voronoi-container)