Having problems with jqPlot bar chart

Question

I\'m using jqPlot to create a bar graph, but I ran into a few problems.

Problem 1: The first and last bars on the graph are cut off. Only half of it is

Answer 1

Here is a simple hack that I used to show a margin.

I create a starting date and an ending date which are respectively one day before and one day after the contents I want to show.

For example if I want to show the month of January 2012

var startingDate = new Date(2012, 0, 0); //=> 31th Dec 2011
var endingDate = new Date(2012, 1, 1); //=> 1st Feb 2012

Then I declare my own DateTickFormatter where I will not printout these two dates.

$.jqplot.DateTickFormatter = function(format, val) {
        if (!format) {
            format = '%Y/%m/%d';
        }

        if(val==startingDate.getTime() || val==endingDate.getTime()){
            return "";
        }else{
            return $.jsDate.strftime(val, format);
        }
    };

Then in the xaxis I put the following options:

xaxis : {
      renderer:$.jqplot.DateAxisRenderer, 
      min:startingDate,
      max:endingDate,
      tickInterval:'1 day'
}