How to show or hide labels in Pygal? (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

Prerequisites: pygal

Pygal is a graphics and user interface library for Python that provides functionality commonly required in designing and science applications. While making a plot it is important for us to optimize its label, title, size. In this article, we will see how we can show/hide the label value of the plot window in the Pygal module. Here are various ways to change the default show/hide labels as per our requirement.

Approach:

• Import required module.
• Create a chart object.
• Show or hide label value.
• Label the graph.
• Display Graph.

Implementation of the concept discussed above is given below**:**

Example 1:

Python3 `

import library

import pygal import numpy

creating the chart object

enable/disable labels

chart = pygal.Bar(show_x_labels=False)

Random data

chart.x_labels = [ 'First Bar !', 'Second Bar !', 'Third Bar !', 'Fourth Bar !'] chart.add('line', [0.1, .034, .065, .035])

naming the title

chart.title = 'Bar Chart'

chart.render_to_png('aa.png')

`

Output

Example 2:

Python3 `

import library

import pygal

enable/disable labels

chart = pygal.Line(show_y_labels=False, show_x_labels=True)

X-label

chart.x_labels = 'Point 1', 'Point 2', 'Point 3'

y-label

chart.add('line', [.0002, .0005, .00035])

naming the title

chart.title = 'Line Chart'

chart.render_to_png('aa.png')

`

Output

Example 3:

Python3 `

import library

import pygal import numpy

creating the chart object

enable/disable labels

chart = pygal.HorizontalBar(show_x_labels=True, show_y_labels=True)

Random data

chart.x_labels = [ 'First Bar !', 'Second Bar !', 'Third Bar !', 'Fourth Bar !'] chart.add('line', [0.1, .034, .065, .035])

naming the title

chart.title = 'HorizontalBar Chart'

chart.render_to_png('aa.png')

`

Output