Add width (and/or minWidth and maxWidth) properties for yAxis.labels
This would simplify stacking timeseries charts, as described in an earlier question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15582294/fixed-y-axis-label-width-in-highcharts.
I'm familiar with the approach using multiple plot areas (as seen in http://jsfiddle.net/markwatson/D7rBR/), but it seems like stacking multiple charts in the same time range, and aligning the data consistently seems very reasonable to me.
Craig Oshima
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We now support setting label width. Overflow is handled through text-overflow: ellipsis.
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The simpler approach is to set a fixed chart.marginLeft, then the label sizes will be ignored altogether and multiple axes become aligned.
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Craig Oshima
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FWIW, it IS possible to do this with a custom formatter. By setting "useHTML" to true and returning a "<span>" with a CSS width set, Highcharts (as of v3 anyway) respects the width.