HighChart Data label issue in bar chart

Question

I want the label outside the bar stack. I've used below code but it doesn't work everytime.

 dataLabels: {
              enabled: true,
              color: '#333',
              inside:false
          }, 

JSFiddle

Answer 1

There are different ways to position your data labels, you can set their x & y positions and you can also set position for each data point individually but as you have both negative and positive values and even if you don't it will be quite a headache. inside: false doesn't seem to be doing anything but i managed to find another easier solution for you which is the use of rotation property of the data label.. setting to even '1' takes the labels outside.

dataLabels: {
     rotation: 1,
     enabled: true,
     color: '#333',
},  

See the DEMO here

Now you can play around with different angles and width heights to see what suits you best.

Answer 2

Here you go:

dataLabels: {
          enabled: true,
          color: '#333',
          inside: false,
          crop: false,
          overflow: "none"
      }, 

http://jsfiddle.net/kq2xgwhg/

Documented here: http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#plotOptions.series.dataLabels under "overflow".