Share Legend Between Charts

Updated on Dec 10, 2025

Environment

Product	Progress® Kendo UI® Chart for jQuery
Product Version	2017.2.621

Description

Can I click on the legend of one Kendo UI Chart and have the series of the other Charts hide or show?

Solution

Handle the legendItemClick event of the first Chart and manually toggle the series visibility in the other Charts.

The following example demonstrates the full implementation of the approach.

    <div id="example">
      <div class="demo-section k-content wide">
        <div id="chart" style="width:400px; height: 250px"></div>
        <div id="chart2"  style="width:400px; height: 220px"></div>
      </div>
      <script>
        function createChart() {
          $("#chart").kendoChart({
            legend: {
              position: "top"
            },
            legendItemClick: function(e){
              var series = $("#chart2").data("kendoChart").findSeriesByIndex(e.seriesIndex);

              series.toggleVisibility(!series._options.visible);
            },
            title: {
              text: "Site Visitors \n /UK/"
            },
            seriesDefaults: {
              type: "bar"
            },
            series: [{
              name: "Total Visits",
              data: [72000, 84000, 64000, 82000, 108000, 118000]
            }, {
              name: "Unique visitors",
              data: [52000, 34000, 23000, 48000, 67000, 83000]
            }],
            categoryAxis: {
              categories: ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun"],
              majorGridLines: {
                visible: false
              }
            },
            tooltip: {
              visible: true,
              template: "#= series.name #: #= value #"
            }
          });
          $("#chart2").kendoChart({
            title: {
              text: "Site Visitors \n /France/"
            },
            legend: {
              visible: false
            },
            seriesDefaults: {
              type: "bar"
            },
            series: [{
              name: "Total Visits",
              data: [56000, 63000, 72000, 96000, 115000, 128000]
            }, {
              name: "Unique visitors",
              data: [52000, 34000, 23000, 48000, 67000, 83000]
            }],

            categoryAxis: {
              categories: ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun"],
              majorGridLines: {
                visible: false
              }
            }
          });
        }

        $(document).ready(createChart);
      </script>
    </div>

Notes

If the order of the series is different across the Charts, you can also access the series by their names.