Chartjs-Label issue in doughnut chart using chartjs

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I think the issue is that you are drawing on top of the previous state because you are using ctx.restore() and ctx.save() wrapped around your canvas drawing logic. Try removing this and it should work. Also, you might want to put your logic in the afterDraw callback (instead of beforeDraw).

Also, here is another approach to implementing the same behavior but it uses custom tooltips instead. This is nice because it gives you way more flexibility to change the look and feel via html/css. Your approach is limited to understanding the canvas API to paint pixels.

Basically, you use an external custom tooltip positioned in the middle of the chart that is triggered when a chart segment is hovered.

Here is the relevant code

Chart.defaults.global.tooltips.custom = function(tooltip) {
  // Tooltip Element
  var tooltipEl = document.getElementById('chartjs-tooltip');

  // Hide if no tooltip
  if (tooltip.opacity === 0) {
    tooltipEl.style.opacity = 0;
    return;
  }

  // Set Text
  if (tooltip.body) {
    var total = 0;

    // get the value of the datapoint
    var value = this._data.datasets[tooltip.dataPoints[0].datasetIndex].data[tooltip.dataPoints[0].index].toLocaleString();

    // calculate value of all datapoints
  this._data.datasets[tooltip.dataPoints[0].datasetIndex].data.forEach(function(e) {
      total += e;
    });

    // calculate percentage and set tooltip value
    tooltipEl.innerHTML = '<h1>' + (value / total * 100) + '%</h1>';
  }

  // calculate position of tooltip
  var centerX = (this._chartInstance.chartArea.left + this._chartInstance.chartArea.right) / 2;
  var centerY = ((this._chartInstance.chartArea.top + this._chartInstance.chartArea.bottom) / 2);

  // Display, position, and set styles for font
  tooltipEl.style.opacity = 1;
  tooltipEl.style.left = centerX + 'px';
  tooltipEl.style.top = centerY + 'px';
  tooltipEl.style.fontFamily = tooltip._fontFamily;
  tooltipEl.style.fontSize = tooltip.fontSize;
  tooltipEl.style.fontStyle = tooltip._fontStyle;
  tooltipEl.style.padding = tooltip.yPadding + 'px ' + tooltip.xPadding + 'px';
};

And a working example as well.

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