hide the y axis by setting the value of yAxis.pointOnColumn

  1. For line chart, you can hide the y axis by setting the value of yAxis.pointOnColumn, yAxis.showLabel option to false as shown below.
var options = {
    ...
    yAxis: {
        pointOnColumn: false,
        showLabel: false
    },
    ...
}
  1. Can control the thickness of lines by giving series.pointWidth option as below, but there is no way to change the line weight of specific series group to different.
var options = {
    ...
    series: {
        pointWidth: 1
    },
    ...
}