ReferenceError: Chart is not defined - chartjs

javascript html html5-canvas chart.js

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Solution 1

here is a working jsfiddle of your code:
new Chart(rice).Line(riceData);
http://jsfiddle.net/mahmalsami/jqcthmyo/
So the problem is definitively coming from your external Chart.min.js inclusion

You may find a 404 on your js get. Please make sure you're linking to the correct js folder. (try accessing your localhost/Chart.min.js to see if you can access to your file)

Solution 2

I was also getting same error. To fix this I moved the chart script into separate graph.js file.

Still I was getting same error. Which is fixed later when I put tag in following order before end of tag as shown below.

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.4.0/Chart.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jscript/graph.js"></script>
</body>

The page look like this:

var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart").getContext('2d');
  var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
      type: 'bar',
      data: {
          labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
          datasets: [{
              label: '# of Votes',
              data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
              backgroundColor: [
                  'rgba(255, 99, 132, 0.2)',
                  'rgba(54, 162, 235, 0.2)',
                  'rgba(255, 206, 86, 0.2)',
                  'rgba(75, 192, 192, 0.2)',
                  'rgba(153, 102, 255, 0.2)',
                  'rgba(255, 159, 64, 0.2)'
              ],
              borderColor: [
                  'rgba(255,99,132,1)',
                  'rgba(54, 162, 235, 1)',
                  'rgba(255, 206, 86, 1)',
                  'rgba(75, 192, 192, 1)',
                  'rgba(153, 102, 255, 1)',
                  'rgba(255, 159, 64, 1)'
              ],
              borderWidth: 1
          }]
      },
      options: {
          scales: {
              yAxes: [{
                  ticks: {
                      beginAtZero:true
                  }
              }]
          }
      }
  });

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.4.0/Chart.min.js"></script>
<!DOCTYPE html>

<canvas id="myChart"></canvas>

Solution 3

I got the same error. To solve the problem, you have to include the chart.js library correctly as follows:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.7.3/Chart.min.js"></script>

Solution 4

1) I tried Chart.js downloaded from Chartjs.org. But, it's not working.

2) Try to this.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.chartjs.org/assets/Chart.js">
</script>

Working good.

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Updated on July 09, 2022

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Admin almost 2 years

Is there a bug with Chart.js? Every time I add any of the graphs at Chart.js to my website I get an error, but when I used the graph as stand-alone program it runs smoothly without errors. I am using HTML5.

   <html>
   <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8" />
      <title>Rice Consumption</title>
      <script src='Chart.min.js'></script>
    </head>
    <body>

      <canvas id="rice" width="600" height="400"></canvas>

      <script>
        var riceData = {
        labels : ["January","February","March","April","May","June"],
        datasets :
         [
            {
              fillColor : "rgba(172,194,132,0.4)",
              strokeColor : "#ACC26D",
              pointColor : "#fff",
              pointStrokeColor : "#9DB86D",
              data : [203000,15600,99000,25100,30500,24700]
            }
         ]
        }

          var rice = document.getElementById('rice').getContext('2d');
               new Chart(rice).Line(riceData);
    </script>
    </body>
    </html>

SOLVED: I just decoupled the script from the canvas element (made another file for the script to execute its function).

Updated HTML:

      <html>
      <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8" />
      <title>Rice Consumption</title>
      <script src='Chart.min.js'></script>
      </head>
      <body>
      <canvas id="rice" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
      <script src='Chart.min.js'></script>
      <script src='rice.js'></script>
      </body>
      </html>

New JavaScript file:

var riceData = {
    labels : ["January","February","March","April","May","June"],
    datasets : [
        {
            fillColor : "rgba(172,194,132,0.4)",
            strokeColor : "#ACC26D",
            pointColor : "#fff",
            pointStrokeColor : "#9DB86D",
            data : [203000,15600,99000,25100,30500,24700]
        }
    ]
}

var rice = document.getElementById('rice').getContext('2d');
new Chart(rice).Line(riceData);