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LegendTitle Class

An individual legend title.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraCharts

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraCharts.v24.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Charts

Declaration

public class LegendTitle :
    AlignedTitle,
    ITextPropertiesProvider,
    IHitTest,
    ISupportTextAntialiasing

The following members return LegendTitle objects:

Remarks

The LegendTitle class declares properties that define the common appearance settings of a title which is displayed by a particular legend.

Properties exposed by the LegendTitle class allow you to customize common title attributes, such as:

For more information, refer to Legend Title.

Example

To display the legend title, set the TitleBase.Visible property of the LegendBase.Title to true and specify the Title.Text of the LegendBase.Title. To customize the appearance of the title, you can change, for example, the AlignedTitle.Alignment, AlignedTitle.WordWrap and AlignedTitle.MaxLineCount properties to align the title to the left and divide it into several lines.

// Specify legend title's text.
chart.Legend.Title.Text = "Area of countries";
// Show legend title.
chart.Legend.Title.Visible = true;
// Configure legend title appearance.
chart.Legend.Title.Alignment = StringAlignment.Near;
chart.Legend.Title.MaxLineCount = 3;
chart.Legend.Title.WordWrap = true;
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