> A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart, first developed by Karol Adamiecki in 1896, and independently by Henry Gantt in the 1910s, that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project.
Q 1..4 Quarter of year. Sets month to first month in quarter.
M MM 1..12 Month number
MMM MMMM January..Dec Month name in locale set by moment.locale()
D DD 1..31 Day of month
Do 1st..31st Day of month with ordinal
DDD DDDD 1..365 Day of year
X 1410715640.579 Unix timestamp
x 1410715640579 Unix ms timestamp
Input Example Description
H HH 0..23 24 hour time
h hh 1..12 12 hour time used with a A.
a A am pm Post or ante meridiem
m mm 0..59 Minutes
s ss 0..59 Seconds
S 0..9 Tenths of a second
SS 0..99 Hundreds of a second
SSS 0..999 Thousandths of a second
Z ZZ +12:00 Offset from UTC as +-HH:mm, +-HHmm, or Z
```
More info in: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/string-format/
### Scale
```
%a - abbreviated weekday name.
%A - full weekday name.
%b - abbreviated month name.
%B - full month name.
%c - date and time, as "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y".
%d - zero-padded day of the month as a decimal number [01,31].
%e - space-padded day of the month as a decimal number [ 1,31]; equivalent to %_d.
%H - hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number [00,23].
%I - hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number [01,12].
%j - day of the year as a decimal number [001,366].
%m - month as a decimal number [01,12].
%M - minute as a decimal number [00,59].
%L - milliseconds as a decimal number [000, 999].
%p - either AM or PM.
%S - second as a decimal number [00,61].
%U - week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53].
%w - weekday as a decimal number [0(Sunday),6].
%W - week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53].
%x - date, as "%m/%d/%Y".
%X - time, as "%H:%M:%S".
%y - year without century as a decimal number [00,99].
%Y - year with century as a decimal number.
%Z - time zone offset, such as "-0700".
%% - a literal "%" character.
```
More info in: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Time-Formatting
## Styling
Styling of the a gantt diagram is done by defining a number of css classes. During rendering these classes are extracted from the
### Classes used
Class | Description
--- | ---
actor | Style for the actor box at the top of the diagram.
text.actor | Styles for text in the actor box at the top of the diagram.
actor-line | The vertical line for an actor.
messageLine0 | Styles for the solid message line.
messageLine1 | Styles for the dotted message line.
messageText | Defines styles for the text on the message arrows.
labelBox | Defines styles label to left in a loop.
labelText | Styles for the text in label for loops.
loopText | Styles for the text in the loop box.
loopLine | Defines styles for the lines in the loop box.
note | Styles for the note box.
noteText | Styles for the text on in the note boxes.
### Sample stylesheet
```css
.grid .tick {
stroke: lightgrey;
opacity: 0.3;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.grid path {
stroke-width: 0;
}
#tag {
color: white;
background: #FA283D;
width: 150px;
position: absolute;
display: none;
padding:3px 6px;
margin-left: -80px;
font-size: 11px;
}
#tag:before {
border: solid transparent;
content: ' ';
height: 0;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -5px;
position: absolute;
width: 0;
border-width: 10px;
border-bottom-color: #FA283D;
top: -20px;
}
.taskText {
fill:white;
text-anchor:middle;
}
.taskTextOutsideRight {
fill:black;
text-anchor:start;
}
.taskTextOutsideLeft {
fill:black;
text-anchor:end;
}
```
## Configuration
Is it possible to adjust the margins for rendering the gantt diagram.
This is done by defining the `ganttConfig` part of the configuration object.
How to use the CLI is described in the [mermaidCLI](mermaidCLI.html) page.
mermaid.ganttConfig can be set to a JSON string with config parameters or the corresponding object.
```javascript
mermaid.ganttConfig = {
titleTopMargin:25,
barHeight:20,
barGap:4,
topPadding:75,
sidePadding:75
}
```
### Possible configration params:
Param | Descriotion | Default value
--- | --- | ---
mirrorActor|Turns on/off the rendering of actors below the diagram as well as above it|false
bottomMarginAdj|Adjusts how far down the graph ended. Wide borders styles with css could generate unwantewd clipping which is why this config param exists.|1
