Charts.js sets canvas width/height to 0 and displays nothing

Question

I am trying to use Charts.js to make the default line plot that they show in their example dynamically and put it in a div that I pop up on a user click. My code is like th

Answer 1

It appears that the issue is that the canvas and all its parent nodes cannot have display none at the time the chart call is made so if you are using a chart in a popup you need to show the popup, construct the chart and then hide the popup.

As this Fiddle shows, if you try and construct a chart in a hidden div and then show it on a timeout it does not work.

If you instead show the div, make the chart and then hide the div, it does work.

http://jsfiddle.net/bjudheoq/4/

//This will break it
//this.div.style.display = 'none';
this.chart = new Chart(this.ctx).Line(data);
this.div.style.display = 'none';

The above fiddle works, but if you uncomment line 40 it does not.