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I am using highcharts and I have a column chart which has 2 data series', the first has each point with different coloured bars, the second series has all the same colour bars.

I understand that because I have set colorbypoint to true that its going to remove the colour swatch from the legend, but is there not a way to add one back in for the second series which is all 1 colour??

I have tried setting various options from the api including trying to add the colorbypoint to just the coloured series but that does not get applied. I have also tried to set colorbypoint to false on the plain series but that does not get applied either.

Is this even possible?

here is a link to a fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/wf_4/X4K4R/

Just set colorByPoint: false for a second series, and set one color instead of colors array. See demo: http://jsfiddle.net/X4K4R/1/

$('#container').highcharts({
    chart: {
        type: 'column'
    xAxis: {
        categories: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']
    plotOptions: {
        series: {
            colorByPoint: true
    series: [{
        data: [29.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0, 135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6, 54.4]
        colorByPoint: false,
        data: [54.4, 29.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0, 135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6],
        color: '#000000'
                Thank you, actually, I noticed in your fiddle that you corrected something else which was stopping this from working for me... I had colors: ['#000000'], when you use colors and not color, that will prevent the legend color. :-)
– wf4
                Feb 19, 2014 at 12:56
        
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