Change color of Data Labels in Bar chart

[dado-ca]

Hi there, how to change the color od the data labels in bar chart. I ve got white font on white background.

I tried changing the colors C1 to C5 in the bar chart properties panel but nothing happens.

Budibase version 3.8.5, Selfhosted.

Thanks

[mikesealey]

Hey @dado-ca - I'm sorry you're coming up against this, I can see it would be frustrating.

I've submitted a feature request on your behalf which would give the creator some control over the colour of the data labels. You can read it here: #15964 Please feel free to add more to it if there's something you feel like I've missed, or subscribe to the issue for updates.

While you wait for a change that facilitates this, here are a couple of workarounds you could try

• Changing the theming of your app do a dark-mode - I appreciate that this is a huge change, but it would certainly give your labels more prominence over the background.

You can do this by clicking on the "Screen" in the components tree,

...then in the right side, clicking "Theme"

Using a darker theme will look something like this:

• Switching to horizontal bars on the chart. In the settings of your Bar Chart, select "Horizontal", which then flips the bars around to be horizontal, and then the text data label is better captured by the bar
  

• One final suggestion - You could enclose your chart in a container which has a background colour set to something that would offer more contrast against the background of the page.

Here, my chart and Data provider are wrapped in a container...

...Where the background colour is set to grey.

Which gives the labels some more prominence

I appreciate none of these are perfect solutions, but they might get you moving again if you're stuck on this issue.

[dado-ca]

@mikesealey thank you, I applied this solution, it should be fine for now, until the issue is resolved.