How do I have the X axis show a label every 20 pixels?

[matt]

The problem is the labels at the bottom are too crowded together... I need some way for the chart to know this and to only give a x axis label ever 20 picels for example...

Can this be done ?

[matt]

no?

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[Evgenia]

Hi matt,

You can get rid of label overlapping by rotating the Item Labels of XAxis 45 degrees for example.
Here is how you can achieve this:

<telerik:RadChart ID="RadChart1" runat="server">
            <PlotArea>
                <XAxis>
                    <Appearance>
                    <LabelAppearance RotationAngle="45"></LabelAppearance>
                    </Appearance>
                </XAxis>
            </PlotArea>
        </telerik:RadChart>

You can use an additional setting, which will improve the text quality for the rotated labels:

RadChart1.Appearance.TextQuality = Telerik.Charting.Styles.TextQuality.AntiAlias;

Best wishes,
Evgenia
the Telerik team

[matt]

I know about that.. here is the picture attached...

It wants a x asix label for EVERY label.. ... How do I tell it to.. for example... make a lable for every 4 steps in the X axis? That make sense ?

[Evgenia]

Hi matt,

You can control the label step of the XAxis by using LabelStep property. It specifies the value indicating that only one out of n-axis labels should be visible, where n is the value of the property. For example if you want label on every 4 steps you can do this:

RadChart1.PlotArea.XAxis.LabelStep = 2;

I hope this information helps.

All the best,
Evgenia
the Telerik team

[matt]

yes!