Highcharts - Why is there extra spacing before the first column and after the last column?

Question

I have a Highcharts datetime column chart, with several series that which are added and updated dynamically. It appears that the library is producing the chart with a large

Answer 1

You can modify pointWidth and groupPadding/pointPadding parameter

http://jsfiddle.net/PRKAJ/37/

EDIT: You should define pointRange

http://jsfiddle.net/PRKAJ/41/

http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#plotOptions.series.pointRange