## Creating your first Chart > Basic Chart Elements
Here, we’ll see the various chart elements that constitute a chart. The following images would help you interpret the various sections of the chart.
| Chart Background and Canvas
| For a 3D chart, the canvas and background can be shown as under. You can change the colors and set the visibility of all the three elements below to false using XML attributes.
| For a 2D chart, the canvas and background is shown below. You can set the canvas background color, background alpha, canvas border color, canvas border thickness, canvas background color via XML.
| Chart Labels- caption, sub caption, x-axis label, y-axis label, y-axis upper limit, y-axis lower limit, number Prefix, number Suffix etc.
| Div lines, trend lines and zero plane
| Alternating Colored Horizontal and vertical grids
| You can choose colors and alphas for alternating horizontal and vertical grids.
| Hover Caption Box, hover caption background, hover caption border, hover caption data separator character.
| You can define various properties for the hover caption box too - like border color, background color, separator character etc.
| Line, Scatter, Radar Chart Anchors
| You can define a lot of properties for the anchors like shape, radius, border color, thickness, alpha, background color, background alpha etc.
| Chart Legend
| And now that you are familiar with the various elements of the graph, let’s have a look at the XML attributes that control them.