# Perspective XY Chart Dashed Line

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xy-chart-dashed-line/56742>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 2, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xy-chart-dashed-line/56742 "2022-03-02T19:10:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![WildeKurt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@WildeKurt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/WildeKurt)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xy-chart-dashed-line/56742/1 "2022-03-02T19:10:55Z")

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I’m having an issue getting a dashed line to render. As near as I can tell the dashArray property controls this. I’ve tried various options and none seem to change the render a dashed line. The manuals says:

SVG dash array. The pattern of dashes and gaps used to paint the stroke. It’s a list of comma separated lengths (in pixels) and percentages (percentage of the total stroke length) that specify the lengths of alternating dashes and gaps. If an odd number of values is provided, then the list of values is repeated to yield an even number of values. Thus, “5,3,2” is equivalent to “5,3,2,5,3,2”.

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-xy-chart-dashed-line/56742/2 "2022-03-02T19:57:06Z")

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What version of Ignition are you using, and what is the list of settings you are using?

There does seem to be a bug here, but I am able to get a dashed line to render.

Added post detailing what I feel is the bug here.

> [@Unexpected Conversion in series dashArray with XY Chart](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unexpected-conversion-in-series-dasharray-with-xy-chart/56743):
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> Ignition Version 8.1.14 When trying to set the dashArray property of a series and Input like 1,1 is interpreted as an integer, and you get a warning saying that an integer was found but a string was expected. Not so bad, except the comma is then removed and the value becomes 11. The manual seems to indicate that you must use string literals, however, when you use string literals no dashes are rendered.