Remove padding or margins from Google Charts

Question

// Load the Visualization API and the piechart package.
google.load('visualization', '1.0', {'packages':['corechart']});

// Set a callback to run when the Google Visualization API is loaded.
google.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);

// Callback that creates and populates a data table,
// instantiates the pie chart, passes in the data and
// draws it.
function drawChart() {

  // Create the data table.
  var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
  data.addColumn('string', 'Topping');
  data.addColumn('number', 'Slices');

  var myData = {
    'Mushrooms': 3,
    'Onions': 1,
    'Olives': 1,
    'Zucchini': 1,
    'Pepperoni': 2
  };

  var rows = [];
  for (element in myData) {
      rows.push([element + " (" + myData[element] + ")", myData[element]])
  }
  data.addRows(rows);

  // Set chart options
  var options = {'title':'How Much Pizza I Ate Last Night',
                 'width':450,
                 'height':300};

  // Instantiate and draw our chart, passing in some options.
  var chart = new google.visualization.PieChart(document.getElementById('chart_div'));
  chart.draw(data, options);
}

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>

<div id="chart_div"></div>

Example fiddle

How do I remove padding or margins in this example?

Answer 1

By adding and tuning some configuration options listed in the API documentation, you can create a lot of different styles. For instance, here is a version that removes most of the extra blank space by setting the chartArea.width to 100% and chartArea.height to 80% and moving the legend.position to bottom:

// Set chart options
var options = {'title': 'How Much Pizza I Ate Last Night',
               'width': 350,
               'height': 400,
               'chartArea': {'width': '100%', 'height': '80%'},
               'legend': {'position': 'bottom'}
    };

If you want to tune it more, try changing these values or using other properties from the link above.

Answer 2

I am quite late but any user searching for this can get help from it. Inside the options you can pass a new parameter called chartArea.

        var options = {
        chartArea:{left:10,top:20,width:"100%",height:"100%"}
    };

Left and top options will define the amount of padding from left and top. Hope this will help.

Answer 3

I arrived here like most people with this same issue, and left shocked that none of the answer even remotely worked.

For anyone interested, here is the actual solution:

... //rest of options
width: '100%',
height: '350',
chartArea:{
    left:5,
    top: 20,
    width: '100%',
    height: '350',
}
... //rest of options

The key here has nothing to do with the "left" or "top" values. But rather that the:

Dimensions of both the chart and chart-area are SET and set to the SAME VALUE

As an amendment to my answer. The above will indeed solve the "excessive" padding/margin/whitespace problem. However, if you wish to include axes labels and/or a legend you will need to reduce the height & width of the chart area so something slightly below the outer width/height. This will "tell" the chart API that there is sufficient room to display these properties. Otherwise it will happily exclude them.

Answer 4

It's missing in the docs (I'm using version 43), but you can actually use the right and bottom property of the chart area:

var options = {
  chartArea:{
    left:10,
    right:10, // !!! works !!!
    bottom:20,  // !!! works !!!
    top:20,
    width:"100%",
    height:"100%"
  }
};

So it's possible to use full responsive width & height and prevent any axis labels or legends from being cropped.

Answer 5

There's a theme available specifically for this

options: {
  theme: 'maximized'
}

from the Google chart docs:

Currently only one theme is available:

'maximized' - Maximizes the area of the chart, and draws the legend and all of the labels inside the chart area. Sets the following options:

chartArea: {width: '100%', height: '100%'},
legend: {position: 'in'},
titlePosition: 'in', axisTitlesPosition: 'in',
hAxis: {textPosition: 'in'}, vAxis: {textPosition: 'in'}

Answer 6

There is this possibility like Aman Virk mentioned:

var options = {
    chartArea:{left:10,top:20,width:"100%",height:"100%"}
};

But keep in mind that the padding and margin aren't there to bother you. If you have the possibility to switch between different types of charts like a ColumnChart and the one with vertical columns then you need some margin for displaying the labels of those lines.

If you take away that margin then you will end up showing only a part of the labels or no labels at all.

So if you just have one chart type then you can change the margin and padding like Arman said. But if it's possible to switch don't change them.