chart.js load totally new data

With Chart.js V2.0 you can to do the following:

websiteChart.config.data = some_new_data;
websiteChart.update();

You need to destroy:

myLineChart.destroy();

Then re-initialize the chart:

var ctx = document.getElementById("myChartLine").getContext("2d");
myLineChart = new Chart(ctx).Line(data, options);

I had huge problems with this

First I tried .clear() then I tried .destroy() and I tried setting my chart reference to null

What finally fixed the issue for me: deleting the <canvas> element and then reappending a new <canvas> to the parent container

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There's a million ways to do this:

var resetCanvas = function () {
  $('#results-graph').remove(); // this is my <canvas> element
  $('#graph-container').append('<canvas id="results-graph"><canvas>');
  canvas = document.querySelector('#results-graph'); // why use jQuery?
  ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
  ctx.canvas.width = $('#graph').width(); // resize to parent width
  ctx.canvas.height = $('#graph').height(); // resize to parent height

  var x = canvas.width/2;
  var y = canvas.height/2;
  ctx.font = '10pt Verdana';
  ctx.textAlign = 'center';
  ctx.fillText('This text is centered on the canvas', x, y);
};