minBarLength Stacked bar chart not working

Hello there,

This is an old annoying bug, that still exists in latest version, the minBarLength doesn’t work as expected in case of Stacked bar, the minBarLength doesn’t apply to each dataset, but instead it applies to the whole bar, which cause overlapping, between bars.

Please fix this, it’s really unusable for many usecases.

You’ll find bellow a reference with the illustrated problem.

Thank you for your hard work.

======================================= _Originally posted by @tomzag in https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/issues/5741#issuecomment-750866201_

There seems to be a problem with stacked bar charts.

Here for example a horizontal stacked bar chart:

The minBarLength works but the stacked version isn’t respecting it and the bars overlap.

[Kit-p]

That’s weird, but it is expected that the datalabel plugin does not work with a local version of Chart.js. You installed an actual release of Chart.js as a workaround, which could be the cause of the labels not being in center, not 100% sure about that though.

As there is no test on the integration with other plugins, this is quite hard for me to debug. I will finish off the remaining work in these 2 days and push it to my fork, so we can see how it works when properly installed as a node module.

[kurkle]

I don’t think current behavior is valid for any use case, so my vote is for just fixing it, without new options.