A chart area may refer to any of the following:

  1. In some software application interfaces for Microsoft Silverlight, like the Telerik UI, the Chart area, or ChartArea, is the boundary where a chart is rendered. Including the RadChart control and the X and Y axes. The ChartArea also makes programming events and interactive abilities available for customizing the chart or graph tooltips.

  2. In general, the chart area in a document or spreadsheet contains the chart, graph, and headers of the graph. It also contains a legend, providing information on the various lines or colors in the chart. The chart area is usually, but not always, delimited by a bold outline to separate it visually from other text or images in a document.

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