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Striplines help teams emphasize important regions, thresholds, and reference points directly within chart visualizations. Use horizontal striplines to highlight value-based ranges and vertical striplines to mark categories, time periods, events, or milestones.

Horizontal Striplines

Highlight thresholds, operating ranges, target bands, and service-level limits across the value axis.

Vertical Striplines

Mark significant dates, milestones, maintenance windows, and release events along the horizontal axis.

Custom Striplines

Match application-specific thresholds and visual preferences with custom stripline styling.

Horizontal Striplines

Render horizontal bands at specified y-axis positions to highlight target bands, threshold ranges, and reference intervals that span the full chart width.

Highlight KPI targets and warning thresholds.
Mark acceptable operating ranges and performance bands.
Improve visibility of critical chart values.
Configure the band start and end values per stripline.

Horizontal Striplines highlighting value ranges across the chart.

Vertical Striplines highlighting time intervals and category boundaries along the horizontal axis.

Vertical Striplines

Mark categories, time intervals, and reference boundaries with Vertical Striplines. Vertical Striplines draw bands at specified x-axis positions to highlight events, releases, and boundaries along the horizontal axis.

Mark events, releases, audits, or maintenance periods.
Highlight critical dates within time-series datasets.
Provide contextual information for trend analysis.
Configure band start and end values for each vertical stripline.

Custom Striplines

Customize the appearance of striplines to match application-specific thresholds and visual preferences, so the highlighted ranges communicate the intended meaning in context.

Configure stripline styling and positioning.
Align thresholds with business requirements.
Emphasize critical ranges through visual customization.
Configure border styles, opacity, and labels for each stripline.

Custom Striplines showing an adjusted stripline layout.

Stripline Labels displaying descriptive text on highlighted regions.

Stripline Labels

Add descriptive labels directly to stripline regions to communicate the meaning of highlighted thresholds, target ranges, compliance boundaries, or reference zones.

Add labels to highlighted chart regions.
Explain thresholds and reference markers.
Improve chart readability and interpretation.
Use label templates to format text consistently across striplines.

GUIDED STRIPLINE WORKFLOW

Add contextual chart markers in four steps

Developers can define chart thresholds or reference regions, configure stripline placement, customize appearance, and add labels to provide contextual information alongside chart data.

Identify key reference points

Determine the thresholds, milestones, target ranges, or boundaries that should be highlighted.

Configure stripline positions

Define stripline start and end values along the appropriate chart axis.

Customize appearance

Adjust colors, opacity, borders, and placement to fit application requirements.

Add labels and annotations

Display meaningful labels that describe the highlighted range, threshold, or event.

PLATFORM SUPPORT

Render striplines across platforms

Stripline capabilities are available across web, desktop, and cross-platform frameworks, with consistent support for horizontal, vertical, and custom stripline capabilities.

Capability	JS, React, Angular, Vue	Blazor	ASP.NET Core & MVC	WPF & WinForms	.NET MAUI	Flutter
Horizontal Striplines
Vertical Striplines
Custom Striplines
Stripline Labels
Stripline range-based highlighting
Stripline text labels

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Frequently Asked Questions

✅ What are striplines in Syncfusion Charts?

Striplines are horizontal or vertical highlight regions that appear across a chart to emphasize thresholds, target ranges, operating limits, events, or other reference points.

✅ When should vertical striplines be used?

Vertical striplines are useful for marking significant dates, milestones, maintenance periods, releases, audits, or category boundaries that provide context for chart data.

✅ Can stripline appearance be customized?

Yes. Stripline styling can be customized, including range configuration, color, positioning, borders, opacity, and other visual properties.

✅ When should horizontal striplines be used?

Horizontal striplines are commonly used to highlight KPI targets, acceptable operating ranges, warning zones, quality thresholds, and service-level objectives along the value axis.

✅ What types of applications commonly use striplines?

Striplines are frequently used in business intelligence dashboards, financial reporting systems, operational monitoring applications, manufacturing analytics, healthcare reporting, and performance management solutions.