ODS SGPLOT to create HTML ID tag for every chart element

kurtyboy — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:06:30 GMT

We have a use case where we need to put an HTML ID tag on each element of a chart. We do this with other SAS chart PROCs using GBARLINE, GCHART & GPLOT by inserting an HTML= option where the value of the HTML variable contains something like ID="xxxx". Each and every element (point, bar, area) has it's own unique ID value. We want the same ability with SGPLOT, but cannot find anywhere that this is possible. We have tried the URL and TIP options, but these aren't meant to create an ID tag. Here is an example of the SAS code (less the ODS HTML code and all of the non pertinent options) we use with GPLOT and the results it gives us:

...

DATA FINAL1;

SET FINAL;

FORMAT HTMLTXT $400.;

HTMLTXT = 'TITLE="simple hover detail"' ||

' ID="IDVAL' || COMPRESS(PUT(_N_,10.))|| '"';

RUN;

...

PROC GPLOT DATA=FINAL1 ;

PLOT yvalue * xvalue = varname/

...

HTML=HTMLTXT;

RUN;

...

One of the resulting lines of HTML code that is created should look like:

How can I do this with SGPLOT?

Re: ODS SGPLOT to create HTML ID tag for every chart element

Ksharp — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:08:26 GMT

You could simply overwrite HTML file generated by PROC SGPLOT to get ID tag.
It is very easy for SAS data step.

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ODS SGPLOT to create HTML ID tag for every chart element

Re: ODS SGPLOT to create HTML ID tag for every chart element