Chart.js 2.0 Formatting Y Axis with Currency and Thousands Separator
The Fix
Assign a function into userCallback when creating the config object. This gets called when creating the tick marks. You can find documentation at Chart.js at the bottom of Scales Documentation
yAxes: [{ ticks: { beginAtZero: true, stepSize: 500000, // Return an empty string to draw the tick line but hide the tick label // Return `null` or `undefined` to hide the tick line entirely userCallback: function(value, index, values) { // Convert the number to a string and splite the string every 3 charaters from the end value = value.toString(); value = value.split(/(?=(?:...)*$)/); // Convert the array to a string and format the output value = value.join('.'); return '€' + value; } }}]
For those using Version: 2.5.0, here is an enhancement. With this, you can also format the amounts in tooltips of the chart, not only the 'ticks' in the 'yAxes'
...options: { scales: { yAxes: [{ ticks: { beginAtZero:true, callback: function(value, index, values) { return '$ ' + number_format(value); } } }] }, tooltips: { callbacks: { label: function(tooltipItem, chart){ var datasetLabel = chart.datasets[tooltipItem.datasetIndex].label || ''; return datasetLabel + ': $ ' + number_format(tooltipItem.yLabel, 2); } } }}
Here is the number_format() function what I am using:
function number_format(number, decimals, dec_point, thousands_sep) {// * example: number_format(1234.56, 2, ',', ' ');// * return: '1 234,56' number = (number + '').replace(',', '').replace(' ', ''); var n = !isFinite(+number) ? 0 : +number, prec = !isFinite(+decimals) ? 0 : Math.abs(decimals), sep = (typeof thousands_sep === 'undefined') ? ',' : thousands_sep, dec = (typeof dec_point === 'undefined') ? '.' : dec_point, s = '', toFixedFix = function (n, prec) { var k = Math.pow(10, prec); return '' + Math.round(n * k) / k; }; // Fix for IE parseFloat(0.55).toFixed(0) = 0; s = (prec ? toFixedFix(n, prec) : '' + Math.round(n)).split('.'); if (s[0].length > 3) { s[0] = s[0].replace(/\B(?=(?:\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, sep); } if ((s[1] || '').length < prec) { s[1] = s[1] || ''; s[1] += new Array(prec - s[1].length + 1).join('0'); } return s.join(dec);}
Instead a new function you can use a native javascript NumberFormat
yAxes: [{ ticks: { beginAtZero: true, callback: function(value, index, values) { return '€ ' + Intl.NumberFormat().format((value/1000)) + 'K'; } } }] //2000000 => € 2,000K