Welcome to Instant Highcharts. This book has been especially created to provide you with all the information that you need to get set up with Highcharts. You will learn the basics of Highcharts, get started with building your first charts, and discover some tips and tricks for using Highcharts.

This book contains the following sections:

So what is Highcharts? finds out what Highcharts actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great.

Installation enables you to learn how to download and install Highcharts with a minimum fuss, and then set it up so that you can use it as soon as possible.

Quick start – setting up main sections of Highcharts gives you an overview of how to perform one of the core tasks of Highcharts: creating charts. Follow the steps to create your own chart, which will be the basis of most of your work with Highcharts.

Top 4 features you need to know about will help you in learning how to perform the four tasks with the most important features of Highcharts. By the end of this section you will be able to create a line chart with a time axis and two Y-axes, a stacked column chart, a pie chart, and create dynamic charts with your own data.

People and places you should get to know will inform you about the people associated with this book. Every open source project is centered on a community. This section provides you with many useful links to the project page and forums, as well as a number of helpful articles, tutorials, blogs, and the Twitter feeds of Highcharts super-contributors.