Highcharts - graph - decades

Question

I want to draw a pretty special graph in Highcharts (javascript library). I want the x-axis to have the decades from 1890 to 2010, but the graph data-can be in between these decades (for example 1891 or 1974). Does anyone know how to do this? Or can point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

Using min and max together with tickInterval and minorTickInterval will do the work.

// Start at 1890
min: Date.UTC(1890, 0, 1),

// End at 2010
max: Date.UTC(2010, 0, 1),

// Tick interval of 10 years
tickInterval: Date.UTC(2010, 0, 1) - Date.UTC(2000, 0, 1),

// Minor tick interval of 2
minorTickInterval: Date.UTC(2010, 0, 1) - Date.UTC(2008, 0, 1)

Example on jsfiddle