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With the new upcomming release of version 3 you can do this with the setActive elements.
Documentation: https://www.chartjs.org/docs/master/developers/api/#setactiveelementsactiveelements
var options = {
type: 'bar',
data: {
labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
datasets: [{
label: '# of Votes',
data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
borderWidth: 1,
hoverBackgroundColor: 'green',
},
{
label: '# of Points',
data: [7, 11, 5, 8, 3, 7],
borderWidth: 1,
hoverBackgroundColor: 'red',
}
]
},
options: {
scales: {}
}
}
var ctx = document.getElementById('chartJSContainer').getContext('2d');
const chart = new Chart(ctx, options);
chart.setActiveElements([{
datasetIndex: 0,
index: 1,
}, {
datasetIndex: 1,
index: 1,
}]);
<body>
<canvas id="chartJSContainer" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.0.0-beta.10/chart.js" integrity="sha512-7igYTuENB1pHNsZ/SyzMYrcJAmRCk084yVOsxNNCQAdX1wSYvCeBOgSOMC6wUdKMO76kCJNOpW4jY3UW5CoBnA==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
</body>
Source:stackexchange.com