[Chartjs]-Is there anyway to overlap one barchart with another in chart js without stacking them?

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You can use a second x axis and map the other dataset to that axes:

var options = {
  type: 'bar',
  data: {
    labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
    datasets: [{
        label: '# of Votes',
        data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
        backgroundColor: 'pink'
      },
      {
        label: '# of Points',
        data: [7, 11, 5, 8, 3, 7],
        backgroundColor: 'orange',
        xAxisID: 'x2'
      }
    ]
  },
  options: {
    scales: {
      x: {},
      x2: {
        display: false // Dont show the axes since it is just a duplicate
      }
    }
  }
}

var ctx = document.getElementById('chartJSContainer').getContext('2d');
new Chart(ctx, options);
<body>
  <canvas id="chartJSContainer" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.8.0/chart.js"></script>
</body>

Although this gives the exect same result as setting stacked true on the x axis.

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