[Chartjs]-How to set ChartJS Y axis title?

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For Chart.js 2.x refer to andyhasit’s answer – https://stackoverflow.com/a/36954319/360067

For Chart.js 1.x, you can tweak the options and extend the chart type to do this, like so

Chart.types.Line.extend({
    name: "LineAlt",
    draw: function () {
        Chart.types.Line.prototype.draw.apply(this, arguments);

        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 * 0.4;
        var y = this.chart.height / 2;
        // change origin
        ctx.translate(x, y);
        // rotate text
        ctx.rotate(-90 * Math.PI / 180);
        ctx.fillText(this.datasets[0].label, 0, 0);
        ctx.restore();
    }
});

calling it like this

var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart").getContext("2d");
var myLineChart = new Chart(ctx).LineAlt(data, {
    // make enough space on the right side of the graph
    scaleLabel: "          <%=value%>"
});

Notice the space preceding the label value, this gives us space to write the y axis label without messing around with too much of Chart.js internals

Fiddle – http://jsfiddle.net/wyox23ga/

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In Chart.js version 2.0 this is possible:

options = {
  scales: {
    yAxes: [{
      scaleLabel: {
        display: true,
        labelString: 'probability'
      }
    }]
  }
}

See axes labelling documentation for more details.

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For x and y axes:

     options : {
      scales: {
        yAxes: [{
          scaleLabel: {
            display: true,
            labelString: 'probability'
          }
        }],
        xAxes: [{
          scaleLabel: {
            display: true,
            labelString: 'hola'
          }
        }],
      }
    }

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For Chart.js 3.x

options: {
  scales: {
    y: {
      title: {
        display: true,
        text: 'Y axis title'
      }
    }
  }
}

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chart.js supports this by defaul check the link.
chartjs

you can set the label in the options attribute.

options object looks like this.

options = {
            scales: {
                yAxes: [
                    {
                        id: 'y-axis-1',
                        display: true,
                        position: 'left',
                        ticks: {
                            callback: function(value, index, values) {
                                return value + "%";
                            }
                        },
                        scaleLabel:{
                            display: true,
                            labelString: 'Average Personal Income',
                            fontColor: "#546372"
                        }
                    }   
                ]
            }
        };

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For me it works like this:

    options : {
      scales: {
        yAxes: [{
          scaleLabel: {
            display: true,
            labelString: 'probability'
          }
        }]
      }
    }

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Consider using a the transform: rotate(-90deg) style on an element.
See http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_transform.asp

Example,
In your css

.verticaltext_content {
  position: relative;
  transform: rotate(-90deg);
  right:90px;   //These three positions need adjusting
  bottom:150px; //based on your actual chart size
  width:200px;
}

Add a space fudge factor to the Y Axis scale so the text has room to render in your javascript.

scaleLabel: "      <%=value%>"

Then in your html after your chart canvas put something like…

<div class="text-center verticaltext_content">Y Axis Label</div>

It is not the most elegant solution, but worked well when I had a few layers between the html and the chart code (using angular-chart and not wanting to change any source code).

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