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Pentaho ChartBeans uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to style charts. Pentaho ChartBeans is not limited to the W3C's style attributes (although it attempts to use them where appropriate, for familiarity). By using CSS, Pentaho ChartBeans allows you to completely separate chart structure and style. You can use external style sheets and inline selectors, as well as class and style attributes. Using an external style sheet would allow an organization to create a consistent look for all of its charts.

Example

Let's use Pentaho ChartBeans to render a standalone PNG image and an HTML page with an embedded Flash chart object.

Chart Data

In this example, we create a ChartTableModel consisting of 21 rows and 3 columns. In addition, we add some row and column metadata.

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