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When I added the following property to my chart:

columns: {
    groupPadding: 1.05

It reversed the order of the columns in the series. Any ideas on why this may be occurring or an alternative to adding padding between the columns of a series?

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Can you show some demo ? –  Ricardo Alvaro Lohmann Jan 29 '13 at 20:15

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The group padding is given is axis values, so in a categorized X axis, a group padding of 1.05 wouldn't make any sense. Values from 0 to 1 would make sense, where 0 renders the columns tightly packed (if pointPadding is 0), and 1 renders them as thin lines.

For adding padding, also consider api.highcharts.com#plotOptions.column.pointPadding .

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