[Chartjs]-Chart.js – draw horizontal line in Bar Chart (type bar)

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HTML:

<div>
  <canvas id="ctx" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
</div>

JS:

var data = {
                labels: ["Docente 1", "Docente 2", "Docente 3", "Docente 4", "Docente 5", "Docente 6", "Docente 7"],
                datasets: [
                    {
                        label: "Semestre 2017-I",
                        borderWidth: 1,
                        data: [3.65, 2.59, 1.80, 2.81, 0.56, 0.55, 3.40]
                    }
                ]
            };            

var ctx = document.getElementById("ctx").getContext("2d");

Chart.types.Bar.extend({
    name: "BarWithLine",
    initialize: function () {
        Chart.types.Bar.prototype.initialize.apply(this, arguments);
    },
    draw: function () {
        Chart.types.Bar.prototype.draw.apply(this, arguments);

        var lineHeight = 2; // <----

        // draw line
        this.chart.ctx.beginPath();
        this.chart.ctx.moveTo(0, this.scale.calculateY(lineHeight));
        this.chart.ctx.strokeStyle = '#ff0000';
        this.chart.ctx.lineTo(this.chart.width, this.scale.calculateY(lineHeight));
        this.chart.ctx.stroke();
    }
});

var myBarChart = new Chart(ctx).BarWithLine(data, {
  type: 'bar',
  data: data
});

Here is the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/zk9oc4c9/

Important: I changed the Chart.js library URL to:
http://www.chartjs.org/assets/Chart.min.js

And removed https from the fiddle.

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In the 2021 chart.js version, it is used like this.

import {  Chart } from 'react-chartjs-2';
import annotationPlugin from "chartjs-plugin-annotation";

Chart.register([annotationPlugin]);

return (
  options={{
   
              annotations: {
              myHorizontalLine: {
                type: "line",
                scaleID: "y",
                borderWidth: 3,
                borderColor: "#333333",
                value: 100,
                borderDash: [8, 8],
                label: {
                  font: {
                    weight: "normal"
                  },
                  rotation: "auto",
                  enabled: true
                }
              }
            }
}}
)

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