How to retrieve parent category when using grouped categories in Highcharts?

Question

I am using the grouped categories library here https://github.com/blacklabel/grouped_categories . How would I retrieve a parent category? For example, how would I get/return the category "Fruit" from the graph here: http://blacklabel.github.io/grouped_categories/ . I have tried this.x which returns both the parent and subcategories of a point. this.category.name would return the subcategory, or "Apple" in the example.

Answer 1

You almost got it. Talking about tooltip, you can reach parent category name with this.x.parent.name . Looks like that you can get any parent level this way;

Try it: jsFiddle