Stacked Bar Chart — Highcharts

A stacked bar chart that displays multiple data series stacked on top of each other within each category, showing both individual component values and their cumulative totals. This visualization excels at revealing part-to-whole relationships while maintaining the ability to compare totals across categories. Stacked bar charts are particularly effective for composition analysis, where understanding how different components contribute to a whole is as important as comparing totals.

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JavaScript source (Highcharts)

// anyplot.ai
// bar-stacked: Stacked Bar Chart
// Library: highcharts 12.6.0 | JavaScript 22.23.2
// Quality: 84/100 | Created: 2026-09-02

const t = window.ANYPLOT_TOKENS;

// --- Data (in-memory, deterministic) ----------------------------------------
// National electricity generation mix by source, 2019-2024 (TWh)
const years = ["2019", "2020", "2021", "2022", "2023", "2024"];
const sources = [
  { name: "Solar", data: [18, 24, 33, 46, 62, 81] },
  { name: "Wind", data: [61, 68, 74, 79, 86, 93] },
  { name: "Hydro", data: [92, 90, 88, 91, 89, 87] },
  { name: "Natural Gas", data: [145, 138, 130, 118, 104, 92] },
  { name: "Coal", data: [96, 78, 62, 47, 33, 21] },
];

const series = sources.map((s, i) => ({
  name: s.name,
  data: s.data,
  color: t.palette[i],
}));

// --- Chart -------------------------------------------------------------------
const title = "bar-stacked · javascript · highcharts · anyplot.ai";

Highcharts.chart("container", {
  chart: {
    type: "column",
    backgroundColor: "transparent",
    animation: false,
    style: { fontFamily: "inherit" },
  },
  credits: { enabled: false },
  colors: t.palette,
  title: {
    text: title,
    style: { color: t.ink, fontSize: "22px", fontWeight: "600" },
  },
  subtitle: {
    text: "Electricity generation mix by source (TWh)",
    style: { color: t.inkSoft, fontSize: "14px" },
  },
  xAxis: {
    categories: years,
    lineColor: t.inkSoft,
    tickColor: t.inkSoft,
    labels: { style: { color: t.inkSoft, fontSize: "14px" } },
    title: { text: "Year", style: { color: t.inkSoft, fontSize: "16px" } },
  },
  yAxis: {
    min: 0,
    title: {
      text: "Generation (TWh)",
      style: { color: t.inkSoft, fontSize: "16px" },
    },
    gridLineColor: t.grid,
    labels: { style: { color: t.inkSoft, fontSize: "14px" } },
    stackLabels: {
      enabled: true,
      style: {
        color: t.inkSoft,
        fontSize: "14px",
        fontWeight: "normal",
        textOutline: "none",
      },
    },
  },
  legend: {
    align: "center",
    verticalAlign: "bottom",
    itemStyle: { color: t.inkSoft, fontSize: "14px" },
    itemHoverStyle: { color: t.ink },
  },
  plotOptions: {
    series: { animation: false },
    column: {
      stacking: "normal",
      borderWidth: 0,
      borderRadius: 2,
    },
  },
  series,
});

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Runnable source as JSON, for any HTTP client: https://api.anyplot.ai/specs/bar-stacked/highcharts/code. Any spec id and library id listed in llms-full.txt fit the same URL shape; every URL below is complete and callable.

{
  "spec_id": "bar-stacked",
  "language": "javascript",
  "library": "highcharts",
  "page": "https://anyplot.ai/bar-stacked/javascript/highcharts",
  "hub": "https://anyplot.ai/bar-stacked",
  "code_json": "https://api.anyplot.ai/specs/bar-stacked/highcharts/code",
  "spec_json": "https://api.anyplot.ai/specs/bar-stacked",
  "render_light_png": "https://storage.googleapis.com/anyplot-images/plots/bar-stacked/javascript/highcharts/plot-light.png",
  "render_dark_png": "https://storage.googleapis.com/anyplot-images/plots/bar-stacked/javascript/highcharts/plot-dark.png",
  "interactive_light_html": "https://storage.googleapis.com/anyplot-images/plots/bar-stacked/javascript/highcharts/plot-light.html",
  "interactive_dark_html": "https://storage.googleapis.com/anyplot-images/plots/bar-stacked/javascript/highcharts/plot-dark.html",
  "quality_score": 84.0,
  "license": "MIT",
  "guide": "https://anyplot.ai/llms.txt"
}

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