# Changing colour of bars in bar charts

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/changing-colour-of-bars-in-bar-charts/93371>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [22 November 2024 21:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/changing-colour-of-bars-in-bar-charts/93371 "2024-11-22T21:03:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [23 November 2024 08:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/changing-colour-of-bars-in-bar-charts/93371/2 "2024-11-23T08:09:22Z")

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Yes it is possible, you would need to create two lots of the data,  
eg  
0,0,3,0  
2,4,0,2  
OG data 2,4,3,2  
And then stack the bar chart  
Not knowing what dashboard you are using

> **[Chart ui-chart | Node-RED Dashboard 2.0](https://dashboard.flowfuse.com/nodes/widgets/ui-chart.html#bar-charts)**
>
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> [@Color one value in Node-Red Dashboard differently](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/color-one-value-in-node-red-dashboard-differently/83831/3):
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> Not really a quick way, or even that clean, you could stack the bar chart, and use Javascript or Jsonata to create the look, but will not be perfect. e.g. [{"id":"fa5f6d3530e9471c","type":"inject","z":"d1395164b4eec73e","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"ui\_control","v":"{\"options\":{\"scales\":{\"xAxes\":[{\"stacked\":true}],\"yAxes\":[{\"stacked\":false}]}}}","vt":"json"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","…

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