Chartjs-plugin-datalabels: Question about anchor and align

[alex-martinez]

First off, thank you for this great plugin. The docs and samples are awesome.

Question:
I'm creating a scatter plot with labels. I have the labels working, however, I can't seem to get them positioned how I'd like. What I want is the text to be centered to the right of the plot point.

[simonbrunel]

@alex-martinez It's not possible (yet) to align horizontally for data bound to an horizontal scale, but it's on my todo list to support align: left|right|bottom|top in addition to start|center|end.

Can you post a screenshot of what you are thinking of exactly?

[alex-martinez]

I created a small plugin to achieve the effect. There's still more I need to solve such as text ellipses and preventing text overlap.

[simonbrunel]

We could also support align as a number representing the angle (in degree) in which the label should be shifted away from the anchor point, with the following presets:

• align: 'right' -> align: 0
• align: 'bottom' -> align: 90
• align: 'left' -> align: 180
• align: 'top' -> align: 270

[simonbrunel]

Implemented in ee7723c7dd but not released yet! (docs)

[simonbrunel]

Released in v0.2.0