Horizontal Bar

Horizontal Bar charts compare different items.

Horizontal Bar

Guidelines

Use When

  • Representing information compared against other information, particularly data with long labels.

Don′t Use When

Visual Language

Do center align the bars to data row when pairing with a table
Do center align the bars to data row when pairing with a table
Don‘t allow the table to wrap to another line, as it will misalign with the chart.
Don‘t allow the table to wrap to another line, as it will misalign with the chart.

Responsiveness

  • At container sizes of 400px or less, the number of x-axis values and grid lines reduces.

Editorial

  • Strive for short, succinct axis labels and legend items that clearly describe the data.
  • Include the unit or increment in axis labels.

Code Reference

Necessary code documentation can be found in the MBC repository.

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