Chart Title and Subtitle

Topic Overview

This topic provides information on using the chart title and subtitle feature of the UltraDataChart™ chart control.

The following topic is a prerequisite to understanding this topic:

Topic	Purpose
Getting Started with Data Chart	The UltraDataChart requires a data object model to be mapped to the control’s `DataContext` property. This article will provide a simple data object model but you can create your own and use it with this sample code instead.

This topic contains the following sections:

The title and subtitle feature of the UltraDataChart control allows you to add information to the top section of the chart control.

When adding a title or subtitle to the chart control, the content of the chart automatically resizes allowing for the title and subtitle information.

The following screenshot is a preview of the chart control with a title and subtitle set.

In order to add a title and subtitle to the chart control there is a set of properties added to the UltraDataChart .

Property Name	Property Type	Description
Title	`String`	Defines the title of the chart.
Subtitle	`String`	Defines the subtitle of the chart.

There are properties provided that allows you to style the text color, the text font style and the text font size of the titles and subtitles.

Property Name	Property Type	Description
TitleTextColor	`Brush`	Title’s text color.
TitleFontFamily	`FontFamily`	Title’s font name.
TitleFontSize	`double`	Title’s font size.
TitleTextStyle	`FontStyle`	Title’s font style such as italic.
TitleHorizontalAlignment	`HorizontalAlignment`	Title’s horizontal alignment.
TitleMargin	`Padding`	Title’s margin.
SubtitleTextColor	`Brush`	Subtitle’s text color.
SubtitleFontFamily	`FontFamily`	Subtitle’s font name.
SubtitleFontSize	`double`	Subtitle’s font size.
SubtitleTextStyle	`FontStyle`	Subtitle’s font style such as italic.
SubtitleHorizontalAlignment	`HorizontalAlignment`	Subtitle’s horizontal alignment.
SubtitleMargin	`Padding`	Subtitle’s margin.

The following code example shows how to set title and subtitle properties on the chart control:

The screenshot demonstrates how the chart control, with the title and subtitle, looks as a result of the above code snippet.