You have a Flex chart and you’re not happy because — unlike every other chart made by modern man — the Y axis title is by default read top to bottom.

This is what you have:

This is what you want:

To flip the vertical axis title on your Flex chart, here’s what you do.

• Give the linear axis defining your Y axis an id, like “yAxis” or such
• add an axis renderer with a reference to that id and the verticalAxisTitleAlignment property set to “vertical.”

You would think that the default behavior would be “vertical” and the one you want would then be the other option, “flippedVertical.” Nope. The default setting is confusingly given the “flipped” attribute.

Here’s what I’m using to flip the units title I have on the Y axis…

I saw this sink on Gizmodo and just had to keep a link to it.