3D Attributes Animations and Visualization Transitions Area Graphs Aspect Ratio, Space and Width Axis Bar Graphs Bin Plots Bins Boxplot Graphs Bullet Graphs Circular Graphs Citations or References Clustering Colors Combination Plots Confidence Intervals Contours Correlation Graphs DOE Data Data Context Data Customizer Data Faceting Data Filters Data Point Attributes Data Ratio Reference Data Selection Data Sorting Data Table Data Table/Filter Data Time Series Data Transformation Data UI Widgets Debug Decorations Dendrograms Density Plots Dotplot Graphs Dumbbell Graphs Effect Error Bars Events Fish Graphs Fit Lines Foreground and Background Gantt Charts General General Attributes Genome Browser Genome Browser Features Genome Browser Sequences Genome Browser Tracks Gradients Graph Metadata Grey Out HTML Widgets Heatmap Color Indicators Heatmap Graphs Hierarchy Histograms Ideograms Images Kaplan Meier Plots LLM Legends Line Graphs Lines Loess Lollipop Graphs Manhattan Plots Maps Maps Albers Maps Leaflet Maps Orthographic Marginal Text Margins Meter Graphs Missing Data Motion Charts Network Algorithm Parameters Network Cola Algorithm Parameters Network Communities Network Graphs Network Node and Edge Attributes Oncoprint Graphs Overlays Parallel Coordinates Graphs Pie Charts Plot Area Plot and Panel Areas Print Quantile Regression Plots R R-Axis Random Regression Remote Procedures Ridgeline Plots Samples Sankey Diagrams Scatter Plot Matrix Scatter Plots Shadows Shapes Stream Plots Swimmer Graphs Tag Cloud Text Text Placement Titles and Subtitles Tooltip Transparency Treemap Graphs Trees UpSet Plots Variables Venn Diagrams Violin Plots Visium Plots X-Axis Y-Axis Z-Axis Zooming, Panning and Resizing cxplot

Shadows : Shadow properties used in most visualizations

# shadowBlur
Amount in blur for the shadow
Type: integer
Default: 2
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Genome, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Map, Meter, Network, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Venn, Violin, Waterfall

# shadowColor
Color for the shadow
Type: color
Default: rgba(0,0,0,0.5)
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Genome, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Map, Meter, Network, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Venn, Violin, Waterfall

# shadowOffsetX
Length in pixels for the shadow offset in the X axis
Type: integer
Default: 1
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Genome, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Map, Meter, Network, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Venn, Violin, Waterfall

# shadowOffsetY
Length in pixels for the shadow offset in the Y axis
Type: integer
Default: 1
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Genome, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Map, Meter, Network, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Venn, Violin, Waterfall

# showShadow
Flag to show/hide the shadows in all graph objects in the canvas. It will be forced to false if the browser is IE
Type: boolean
Default: false
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Genome, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Map, Meter, Network, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Venn, Violin, Waterfall

# showTextShadow
Flag to show/hide the shadows in text in the canvas. It will be forced to false if the browser is IE
Type: boolean
Default: false
Used in: Area, AreaLine, Bar, BarLine, Boxplot, Bubble, Chord, Circular, Contour, Correlation, Density, DotLine, Dotplot, Fish, Gantt, Genome, Heatmap, Histogram, Line, Lollipop, Map, Meter, Network, ParallelCoordinates, Pie, Radar, Sankey, Scatter2D, Scatter3D, ScatterBubble2D, Stacked, StackedLine, StackedPercent, StackedPercentLine, Streamgraph, Sunburst, TagCloud, Tree, Treemap, Venn, Violin, Waterfall

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