+5  A: 

After some digging around, I'm quite sure that it is not possible through the Flot API. Nevertheless, if you get really dirty, you could do it - I have published a modified version of one example which does it. View source shows the whole uglyness.

Alexander Gyoshev  2008-10-06 11:57:35
So would it be accurate to summarize your approach as: 1) use tiny ticks on the axis so that they won't actually show up; 2) build the labels yourselves using custom divs with calculated absolute styling to make sure they get in the right place?
Greg Borenstein  2008-10-09 02:02:44
It seems like this is very close to how many of the Flot internals work :)
Greg Borenstein  2008-10-09 02:03:31
Any way you could wrap it up and submit it to them as a patch? (PS. Thanks for the answer; I think you're right and am going to accept it now.)
Greg Borenstein  2008-10-09 02:04:42
yup, that's the idea. I've copied some code from the drawing functions - they'll need some modifications, but I guess I can submit it soon :)
Alexander Gyoshev  2008-10-09 05:28:08
+1  A: 

Starting June 2009 there's flot issue 167 which is a request for this exact feature. Includes two implementations and some agreement from the flot author that it's a good idea.

Nelson  2009-08-18 18:47:26

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