# Rotated labels (Column example)

> WestCoast Charts 1.1.5, release, public Core release, on npm. HTML: https://westcoast-charts.com/gallery/column/column-with-rotated-labels/ · Index for agents: https://westcoast-charts.com/llms.txt

Long category names rotated to fit.

- Chart type: `bar` (Bar)
- Collection: Column · Column
- Raw configuration: https://westcoast-charts.com/gallery-src/column/column-with-rotated-labels.js
- Standalone example: https://westcoast-charts.com/embed/samples/wcc/gallery/column/column-with-rotated-labels.html

## Setup

```js
import WestCoastCharts from 'west-coast-charts'
```

## Options

```js
const options = {
  chart: {
    height: 380,
    fontFamily: "Inter, Geist, \"IBM Plex Sans\", system-ui, sans-serif",
    type: "bar",
    toolbar: {
      show: false
    }
  },
  series: [
    {
      name: "Requests",
      data: [71, 153, 66, 165, 169, 260, 157, 177, 239, 40, 204, 244]
    }
  ],
  xaxis: {
    categories: ["Customer onboarding", "Billing & invoices", "Account security", "Integrations", "Mobile application", "Reporting exports", "Team permissions", "Data retention", "Single sign-on", "Notifications", "API rate limits", "Localisation"],
    labels: {
      rotate: -45,
      rotateAlways: true
    }
  },
  plotOptions: {
    bar: {
      columnWidth: "55%",
      borderRadius: 3
    }
  },
  dataLabels: {
    enabled: false
  },
  title: {
    text: "Feature requests by area"
  },
  theme: {
    mode: "light",
    preset: "coastal"
  }
}

const chart = new WestCoastCharts(document.querySelector('#chart'), options)
await chart.render()
```

## Verify

- Text check (Library 1.1.5): load `west-coast-charts/agent/describe` and call `chart.describe({ format: "json" })` for the actual drawn state. The live reader is on this example’s HTML page.
- Command line (Public agent tools 0.2.3, tested with Library 1.1.5; available from the versioned GitHub release and npm, https://westcoast-charts.com/docs/cli/index.md): `wcc chart export column-column-with-rotated-labels.json --out column-column-with-rotated-labels.svg --with-table` (save the options above as JSON first)