Labels are provided via a 'label' option on the axis, and can be styled
with the flot-axis-label class. The labelFont option works similarly to
tickFont, as an override for the default font or the flot-axis-label
class. The labelPadding option adds extra space between the axis and
its label.
Since most plots with axis labels currently use @markrcote's
flot-axislabels plugin, we also support the axisLabel and
axisLabelPadding options, and the axisLabels / axis[name]Label CSS
classes, to make it as easy as possible to transition from that plugin.
These are deprecated, and will be removed in 1.0.
The implementation uses the internal text API introduced in 0.8.
Updated the axis option defaults and docs for tickColor, tickFont,
tickWidth, and tickHeight. Also re-organized the API docs to match the
master list, and revised many areas for clarity.
The reference document is quite large; a table of contents would help readers navigate and find topics. (TOC was generated via [DocToc](http://doctoc.herokuapp.com/))
Line height is a core font property - it can be specified as part of the
unified 'font' definition - and we therefore need to give users access
to it when they're manually defining the font.
The purpose of the stylesheet hack was to provide a default without
having to use inline styles on containers. We can do this much more
neatly by instead just giving the inline styles to a parent container,
leaving users free to customize the children.
The axis color now controls the color of the axis line, instead of its
ticks and labels, while the tickColor controls the tick color. This
makes a little more sense and provides the minor feature of being able
to change the axis line color separately from that of its ticks. Pull
request #917 ought to be easier to merge now, too.
David Schnur
Jeff Tian
Mike Połtyn
Brian Peiris
Patrik Ragnarsson
Mark Côté
ara818
Chage Juan
Alexander Blunck
Hongli Lai (Phusion)