---
id: "packages/active-charts/all-exports/radial-bar-chart"
title: "RadialBarChart"
description: "RadialBarChart, RadialBarChartProps: generated from the source of active-charts."
url: "/packages/active-charts/all-exports/radial-bar-chart"
locale: "en"
revision: "g0mvjxwj5c-88bdbe1c:radial-bar-chart"
---

# RadialBarChart

Exported by `@workspace/active-charts`. Generated from the package source; part of [the index of every export](/packages/active-charts/all-exports).

## `RadialBarChart`

| Prop | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `categoryKey` | `string` | yes | Category/label field name. Drives tooltip/legend/label text. |
| `data` | `TDatum[]` | yes | Flat array of row objects. Each row is one slice/segment/spoke. |
| `height` | `number` | yes | Container height in pixels. Width is always responsive. |
| `valueKey` | `string` | yes | Numeric value field name. Drives slice/segment size. |
| `accessibility` | `StandaloneAccessibilityOptions` | no | Accessible name, description, data table and keyboard navigation. No `announcements`: it switches `<Chart>`'s interaction announcements, which this family does not make. |
| `animation` | `StandaloneAnimationOption<"type">` | no | The entrance: on, off, `duration`, `easing` and the family's entrance `type`. One entrance and no series, so no `stagger`, `update`, `layers` or `exit` (ADR-082, LAB-AT17). |
| `barGap` | `number` | no | Preferred gap between concentric bars in pixels; thins with the rings. Default: 4. |
| `barThickness` | `number` | no | Preferred bar thickness in pixels. Default: 16. Rings are fitted to the radius and the number of categories: they thin to a readability floor, and where not every category fits even then, the chart shows that it cannot draw them all instead of leaving any out. |
| `className` | `string` | no | Optional className applied to the outer container. |
| `colors` | `string[]` | no | Categorical palette for this chart only: replaces the host palette (`--chart-1` … `--chart-10`) in the chart's colour assignment, and nothing else. It is a data encoding, not a theme: surfaces, text, grid and semantic roles keep coming from the CSS token contract, and a series, datum or annotation that sets its own colour keeps it. Any CSS colour string (a public token reference such as `var(--chart-3)`, hex, oklch). |
| `contextMenu` | `FeatureOption<ChartContextMenuOptions<CategoricalSlice<TDatum>, "copy" \| "export" \| "series">>` | no | The context menu. Opened on a slice, the host's builder receives a typed {@link CategoricalSlice} (datum, index, value, category, share) as `context.target.element`; on empty space the target is the chart, on a legend entry the entry. |
| `dataLabels` | `boolean \| Omit<DataLabelOptions, "color" \| "fontSize">` | no | Data label configuration. Default: enabled with percentage. The label size and colour are the family's (its name and value roles), so the shared `fontSize` and `color` are not options here. |
| `defaultSelectedItems` | `readonly ChartItemRef[]` | no | The initial selection of an uncontrolled chart. |
| `dir` | `"ltr" \| "rtl"` | no | The chart's UI direction: the reading direction of its HTML text and chrome (tooltip, legend, menus, the accessible table), and the direction the context menu carries under `<body>`.  Left out, the chart inherits the direction of the page around it (the nearest `dir` attribute, else the computed CSS direction) and follows a later change of that attribute. It is never inferred from `locale`, and it never reverses an axis or reorders data: `reversed` stays an explicit axis choice. Under `rtl` the chrome mirrors (legend flow, tooltip side, context menu and submenus, report text in exports), a title-like label starts at the inline start, and a label placed by geometry (an axis tick, a slice or bar label) keeps its physical side; plot arrow keys stay spatial while legend and menu arrows follow the reading direction. |
| `endAngle` | `number` | no | Where the tracks end, the angle of `max`: degrees clockwise from 12 o'clock on the same clock as `startAngle`, more than 0° and at most 360° past it (360° past is the full circle). Default: `startAngle` + 360. A pair outside that range is reported to the host's diagnostics and draws the default; more than one turn draws the full circle. A value past `max` fills the track and keeps its true number in its label, tooltip and table. |
| `events` | `(Omit<ChartEvents, "onZoomChange"> & ChartSelectionEvents<TDatum, ChartSeriesItem<TDatum>>)` | no | The chart's events, and the selection events (T8): a ring is an item of the chart's one series (`seriesId` `'radial-bar'`), keyed by its `categoryKey` value unless `selection.itemKey` names another field. |
| `legend` | `boolean \| LegendOptions` | no | Enable legend. |
| `legendLink` | `ChartLegendLink` | no | Connects the chart's legend to `useChartLegend()`, for a legend the host renders itself. Give one link to one chart. |
| `locale` | `ValuePresentation` | no | Presentation input for axis labels, tooltips, labels and accessibility announcements: a locale code (notation follows the language), or a presentation-context object (`{languageLocale, dateShape?, dateFormat?, timeFormat?, numberFormat?, currencyDisplay?}`) carrying language and notation independently. `dateShape` is the normal human date shape a plain date consumer inherits; an axis that declares its own preset for readability keeps it. Forwarded untouched to the central `@workspace/active-format`; the package never resolves tenant or application settings itself. When omitted, `<ChartDefaults>` supplies it; with neither, the chart throws a configuration error (no `'en'` fallback, active-format D14). Object inputs must be referentially stable across renders. |
| `max` | `number` | no | Maximum value for the scale. Default: auto-detected from data. |
| `name` | `string` | no | The chart's name: its accessible name and `<title>` (LAB-AT21). |
| `onAnimationComplete` | `((event: AnimationCompleteEvent) => void)` | no | Fired when a chart animation completes. - `'load'`: initial mount animation finished (or immediately if animation disabled / prefers-reduced-motion is active). - `'update'`: data-update transition finished.  Not triggered by zoom animations (use `onZoomChange`) or tooltip fades. |
| `onExportComplete` | `((result: ChartExportResult) => void)` | no | Fired after a successful export action (PNG/SVG/CSV/PDF), including from the context menu and from imperative `ChartHandle` calls. |
| `onExportError` | `((format: ChartExportFormat, error: unknown) => void)` | no | Fired when an export could not produce its file (W11), from the handle as well as from the context menu. Without it a failed context-menu export is reported as an error diagnostic (`<ChartDefaults diagnostics>`). |
| `onItemActivate` | `((item: ChartSeriesItem<TDatum>, source: ChartInteractionSource) => void)` | no | Fired when the reader activates an item: a click or tap on it, or `Enter` on the focused item (`Shift+Enter` on a sankey, whose `Enter` moves between nodes and links). With a handler, `Enter` activates instead of opening the context menu (`Shift+F10` and the context-menu key still open it). |
| `onLegendChange` | `((change: ChartLegendChange) => void)` | no | Fired once for every legend change the chart applies: a hide, a show, an isolation or a show-all, from the built-in legend (click, key, double click, double tap), its menu, or `useChartLegend()`. The change names the entry and its target by identity and lists every hidden target after it. A refused action (the last visible target, `legend.interactive: false`) changes nothing and reports nothing. |
| `onReady` | `(() => void)` | no | Fired exactly once per chart instance, after the first successful mount with valid dimensions and **before** any entrance animation starts. "Ready" means: the SVG is in the DOM, layout has run with real dimensions, and the chart can be queried by integration tests.  Distinct from {@link onAnimationComplete} with `type: 'load'`, which fires *after* the load animation finishes. A chart with `animation={false}` still fires `onReady` — animation state has no effect on readiness.  A new React `key` on the host produces a new component instance and `onReady` fires again. Identity changes of the callback itself after the first fire are ignored (latch is per-instance).  **Consumer requirement — stable from first render.** The latch closes on the first effect run regardless of whether `onReady` was defined at that moment. If `onReady` is initially `undefined` and later resolves to a function, the callback will **never** fire — the latch has already closed with a no-op. Pass a stable reference (typically via `useCallback`) or pass the final function unconditionally from the first render. |
| `onSelectionChange` | `((selection: ChartItemRef[], change: ChartSelectionChange<TDatum, ChartSeriesItem<TDatum>>) => void)` | no | Fired when the reader changes the selection (pointer, touch or keyboard), and when an uncontrolled selection drops items the data no longer contains. `selection` is the complete selection the change makes; it keeps every reference the selection held, of whatever form. On a controlled chart it is a proposal (`change.requested: true`), computed from the current `selectedItems` and never from an earlier proposal; the host applies it, changes it or ignores it. |
| `paint` | `DatumPaintResolver<DatumFill, TDatum>` | no | A ring's own fill, by a rule over its row (T1, the contract of BC-P1, ADR-092): the one scheme below its funding target in the negative role. Returns `{fill}` or `undefined` for the ring's palette colour; paint only. The ring IS its legend category, so its arc, its key in the name column, its legend key, its tooltip swatch and its export all show the painted fill; forced colours override it. The context's `seriesId` is `'radial-bar'` and its `seriesName` the chart's `name`. See {@link DatumPaintResolver}. |
| `ref` | `Ref<ChartExportHandle>` | no | Imperative handle: exports and element access. A family built on this type has no data-range zoom, so its handle has no `setZoom`. Allows getting a ref to the component instance. Once the component unmounts, React will set `ref.current` to `null` (or call the ref with `null` if you passed a callback ref). |
| `selectedItems` | `readonly ChartItemRef[]` | no | The selection, controlled by the host. The chart draws, announces and lists the items it resolves to and never changes it; the host updates it from `onSelectionChange`. A request the host applies is announced when the host passes it back; one it ignores is never announced. A reference to an item that is hidden, zoomed or drilled out of view, or not in the data stays in the host's selection and is not shown as selected. |
| `selection` | `FeatureOption<ChartSelectionOptions>` | no | Item selection. `true` = single selection keyed by the default key. |
| `startAngle` | `number` | no | Where the rings start: degrees clockwise from 12 o'clock, the one radial convention (T2, ADR-095). Default: `0` (12 o'clock). Any finite number; the sweep entrance starts here. |
| `t` | `ChartTranslateFn` | no | The host translator for every text the chart shows or announces. When omitted, `<ChartDefaults>` supplies it; with neither, the chart throws a configuration error (no English fallback, ADR-028). |
| `tooltip` | `StandaloneTooltipOption<never>` | no | Tooltip of the slice under the pointer: `enabled`, `renderer`, `valueFormatter` and `style` (ADR-082, LAB-AT17). |
| `valueSemantics` | `ChartValueSemantics` | no | What the ring values mean (BC1): unit and precision, declared once with the type the Cartesian charts read (`ChartValueSemantics`). The value column, the tooltip, the data table and the announcement write each value in it; a ring's share of `max` stays a percentage. The label's own `formatter` or `format` (and `tooltip.valueFormatter`) still wins; without a declaration the chart presentation's number applies. CSV and Copy value keep the raw number. |
| `width` | `number` | no | Optional fixed width in pixels. Default: fill container. |

## Types

**RadialBarChartProps**

```ts
interface RadialBarChartProps<TDatum extends ChartDatum = ChartDatum>
  extends
    Omit<CategoricalChartProps<TDatum>, 'events'>,
    ChartSelectionProps<TDatum, ChartSeriesItem<TDatum>> {
  events?: NonNullable<CategoricalChartProps<TDatum>['events']> &
    ChartSelectionEvents<TDatum, ChartSeriesItem<TDatum>>;
  max?: number;
  name?: string;
  barThickness?: number;
  barGap?: number;
  dataLabels?: Omit<DataLabelOptions, 'fontSize' | 'color'> | boolean;
  startAngle?: number;
  endAngle?: number;
  legend?: LegendOptions | boolean;
  legendLink?: ChartLegendLink;
  valueSemantics?: ChartValueSemantics;
  paint?: DatumPaintResolver<DatumFill, TDatum>;
}
```

Props for {@link RadialBarChart}. Extends {@link CategoricalChartProps} to
join the wrapper contract. Chart-specific fields (`max`, `barThickness`,
`barGap`, `dataLabels`, `startAngle`, `endAngle`, `legend`) remain on this
interface.

Entrance animation: defaults to `sweep` (clockwise-angle
radial reveal). `fade` and `none` are also supported. Respects
`prefers-reduced-motion`.
