Theming in jqChart as opposite to the most jqSuite components is supported with javascript files and not CSS one. This means that you should load a javascript file and not CSS.

Currently the theme switching is done with including a Java Script file. In the future releases this will be a part of php options settings

Currently there are a four themes plus the standart one.

The list of currently available themes is:

  • dark-blue
  • dark-green
  • blue
  • grid

All themes are available in the [themes] folder of the install package.

As of version 4.0 it is possible to set the theme dynamically within PHP script. See setTheme method

It is important to note that the themes file should be loaded after the jqChart file as is shown in the Quick Install

Below is exmple how to do this.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>My First PHP jqChart </title> 

<script src="js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="js/jquery.jqChart.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="themes/dark-blue.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...
</body>
</html>


You to create your own theme starting from an existing one.