Charts.js graph not scaling to canvas size

I'm trying to make a graph with Charts.js (current one is just a really simple example I'm trying to get working, somewhat taken from the Chart.js documentation) and the graph isn't scaling to the size of the canvas I'm giving it. Here is all the relevant code.

To import it:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.1.6/Chart.bundle.min.js"></script>

Then, I connect it to a javascript file as follows:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/stats_tab.js"></script>

I have my canvas set up:

        <div id="graph_2015" class ="stats_box">
            <h4>Graph 2015</h4>
            Text
            <canvas id="myChart" width="200" height="200"></canvas>
        </div>

And then finally in stats_tab.js, I have the following code:

window.onload=function(){
    var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart").getContext("2d");
    var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
        type: 'line',
        data: {
            labels: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10],
            datasets: [
                {
                    label: "My First dataset",
                    data: [1,2,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,4]
                }
            ]
        },
        options: {
        }
    });
}

The graph displays nicely, but it refuses to scale to the size of the canvas I gave it. There is also no css relevant to any of the divs involved. The inspect feature on chrome lets me know that the final graph is 676 by 676 instead of the 200 by 200 I specified. Not really sure what's going on.

Thanks!

The width and height property that you set for the canvas only work if the Chartjs' responsive mode is false (which is true by default). Change your stats_tab.js to this and it will work.

    window.onload=function(){
        var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart").getContext("2d");
        var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
            type: 'line',
            data: {
                labels: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10],
                datasets: [
                    {
                        label: "My First dataset",
                        data: [1,2,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,4]
                    }
                ]
            },
            options: {
                responsive: false
            }
        });
    }

The important point is: width and height properties are not the size in px but the ratio.

<canvas id="myChart" width="400" height="400"></canvas>

In this example, it's a 1:1 ratio. So, if your html contenair is 676 px width then your chart will be 676*675px
That can explain some common mistakes.

You can disable this feature by setting maintainAspectRatio to false.

In your options, set the maintainAspectRatio to false, and responsive to true. This will initially try to scale your chart to match the dimensions of your canvas. If the canvas doesn't fit the screen, i.e. on mobiles, your chart will be re-scaled to fit on the page.

window.onload=function(){
    var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart").getContext("2d");
    var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
        type: 'line',
        data: {
            labels: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10],
            datasets: [
                {
                    label: "My First dataset",
                    data: [1,2,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,4]
                }
            ]
        },
        options: {
            responsive: true,
            maintainAspectRatio: false,
        }
    });
}

I had this exact same problem where my graph would not resize properly. To get around this issue I did two things.

1. Set the canvas tag style to a width and height of 100%. This will make sure that it always fits 100% of its containers width and height.
2. For the options value set responsive: true & maintainAspectRatio: false. This will make sure that the graph responds to updates in size while ignoring the aspect ratio.

below is the code I used:

    css
    #myGraph {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    }

    html
    <canvas id="myGraph" />

When you initialise the chart with the ctx set the options as below:

     options: {
                responsive: true,
                maintainAspectRatio: false
              }

now when you resize your screen the graph should resize accordingly. Note: The graph will fill the size of its container now so what ever you put your canvas into it will fill the size of that container.

A little late to the party, but I struggled with this problem a lot, particularly on a page with multiple charts.

This little tidbit solved it all - my charts all now fit nicely, and resize exactly with the divs they are in.

Add this to your page styles (The 8px is personal preference. Change if needed):

<style type="text/css">
    #canvas-holder {
        background-color: #FFFFFF;
        position: absolute;
        top: 8px;
        left: 8px;
        right: 8px;
        bottom: 8px;
    }
</style>

For the appropriate Divs:

<div id="canvas-holder">
    <canvas id="chart-area"></canvas>
</div>

This should work. Basically, just add the width and height properties to your javascript:

var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart").getContext("2d");
ctx.canvas.width = 200;
ctx.canvas.height = 200;
var myChart = new Chart(ctx,.........

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19847582/chart-js-canvas-resize

Below code from Chart.js documentation worked for me. "https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/general/responsive.html"

var ctx = document.getElementById('myChart').getContext('2d');
ctx.canvas.parentNode.style.width = "500px";
ctx.canvas.parentNode.style.height = "500px";
var myChart = new Chart(ctx, .....

If your <canvas> element doesn't have a width & a height "attribute" (not the css attribute). Try setting each of them them to 1 (Since its just a ratio)

<canvas id="activeUsersPieChart" width="1" height="1"></canvas>

The following worked for me, and I was able to keep the responsiveness of the chart!

  var ctxx = document.getElementById("myChart");
  ctxx.height = 80;

The real issue is that the canvas will re-scale responsively to its parent. I wanted to keep the responsiveness. So something like this will solve the issue:

<div style="width:50%">
    <canvas id="myChart"></canvas>
</div>

1. Make a div element and place the chart canvas inside of it, name it as canvas-holder. See below:

    <div id="canvas-holder">
       <canvas id="myChart"></canvas>
    </div>
   

2. Using CSS, specify the height and width of the canvas holder

    #canvas-holder {
       background-color: #FFFFFF;
       position: absolute;
       width: 400px;
       height: 400px;
    }