# \[Question\] XY Chart Axes Break

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-xy-chart-axes-break/21557>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [December 21, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-xy-chart-axes-break/21557 "2018-12-21T01:07:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![WillMT10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7feea3/32.png) [@WillMT10](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/WillMT10)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-xy-chart-axes-break/21557/1 "2018-12-21T01:07:59Z")

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I’m trying to understand how the XY Chart axes break property should work. The behavior seems odd but it might just be my lack of experience with it. I would expect it to “compress” charts but no matter what I set the values to it just creates an overlay blocking portions of the chart. Nothing shifts. Is this what it should be doing?

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**Author:** ![WillMT10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7feea3/32.png) [@WillMT10](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/WillMT10)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-xy-chart-axes-break/21557/2 "2018-12-21T01:13:01Z")

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Sorry, posted too soon. Just figured out what the size property is doing…😳

I think I was thrown off by the fact that when the startValue is set to 0 it doesn’t actually do any compression so I just started changing different values to see if I could get something to work.

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**Author:** ![ynejati](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ynejati/32/6093_2.png) [@ynejati](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ynejati)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/question-xy-chart-axes-break/21557/3 "2019-01-08T19:00:27Z")

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Hi,

Glad you managed to figure this out on your own. Yes, the startValue and endValue for the axis break has to be a range within view in order for it to work as expected.

-Yousuf