Click event on highchart axis

Question

I want to be able to bind an event to the axes in high charts, so I can expose some options for them in the UI (axis interval, text formatting, gridlines, etc.)

Doesn't seem to be a way to do this in highcharts. So far, I can get it to do my bidding when I click on the labels, but not when I click on the spaces between the labels. See the fiddle here, for version 2.2.4: http://jsfiddle.net/gW4p6/174/

var chart = new Highcharts.Chart({
    chart: {
        renderTo: 'container',
        marginRight: 80 // like left
    },
    xAxis: {
        categories: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']
    },
    yAxis: [{
          lineWidth: 1,
          title: {
              text: 'Secondary Axis'
          }
    }],

    series: [{
        data: [29.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0, 135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6, 54.4]        
    }]
});

var clearSelection = function() { $('.highcharts-axis').css('stroke', ''); };

$('.highcharts-axis').click(function(event) {
    clearSelection();
    $(this).css('stroke', 'green');
    return false;
});
$(document).click(clearSelection);
$('svg').click(clearSelection);

Is there any way that I can reliable catch a click event on the g.highcharts-axis element?

For bonus marks, what's the best way to link the axis with its axis.id in the options? Best I can come up with is to rely on the fact that axis are rendered in the order they are supplied, so I can just loop.

Answer 1

$('.highcharts-axis text').click(function(){ alert($(this).text());  }); 

This alerts the text of the axis. This way you could bind click event to each elements in axis.