Highcharts Demo - Data defined in a HTML table

$(function () {
    $('#container').highcharts({
        data: {
            table: document.getElementById('datatable')
        },
        chart: {
            type: 'column'
        },
        title: {
            text: 'Data extracted from a HTML table in the page'
        },
        yAxis: {
            allowDecimals: false,
            title: {
                text: 'Units'
            }
        },
        tooltip: {
            formatter: function() {
                return '<b>'+ this.series.name +'</b><br/>'+
                    this.y +' '+ this.x.toLowerCase();
            }
        }
    });
});