[Chartjs]-Display vertical axis label in line chart using chart.js

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The original opinion on the axis title is to do it outside of the canvas (see here https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js/issues/114), but given the activity on the linked issue https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js/issues/52 this could change.

Adding a Y Axis Title

That said, here’s how you can do it on the current version using the canvas. First, extend the chart to draw the axis title (mostly a rehash from How to set ChartJS y axis title with hopefully cleaner code)

Chart.types.Line.extend({
    name: "LineAlt",
    initialize: function (data) {
        // making space for the title by increasing the y axis label width
        if (this.options.yAxisLabel)
            this.options.scaleLabel = '         ' + this.options.scaleLabel;

        Chart.types.Line.prototype.initialize.apply(this, arguments);

        if (this.options.yAxisLabel)
            this.scale.yAxisLabel = this.options.yAxisLabel;
    },
    draw: function () {
        Chart.types.Line.prototype.draw.apply(this, arguments);

        // drawing the title
        if (this.scale.yAxisLabel) {
            var ctx = this.chart.ctx;
            ctx.save();
            // text alignment and color
            ctx.textAlign = "center";
            ctx.textBaseline = "bottom";
            ctx.fillStyle = this.options.scaleFontColor;
            // position
            var x = this.scale.xScalePaddingLeft * 0.2;
            var y = this.chart.height / 2;
            // change origin
            ctx.translate(x, y)
            // rotate text
            ctx.rotate(-90 * Math.PI / 180);
            ctx.fillText(this.scale.yAxisLabel, 0, 0);
            ctx.restore();
        }
    }
});

From your directives, I assume you are using http://jtblin.github.io/angular-chart.js/. If so you register the new chart type like so

angular.module('chart.js')
    .directive('chartLineAlt', ['ChartJsFactory', function (ChartJsFactory) { return new ChartJsFactory('LineAlt'); }]);

and you pass in the axis title using options like so

...
$scope.options = {
    yAxisLabel: "My Y Axis Label",
}

with markup

<canvas id="line" class="chart chart-line-alt" data="data"
        labels="labels" legend="true" series="series" options="options"
        click="onClick" colours="['Red','Yellow']" width="402" height="201" style="width: 402px; height: 201px"></canvas>

Note the added options and the changed class chart-line-alt

Fiddle – http://jsfiddle.net/eeqfvy6f/

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