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D3.js Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   D3.js Quick Start Guide Create amazing, interactive visualizations in the browser with JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342383
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matthew Huntington Matthew Huntington
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with D3.js FREE CHAPTER 2. Using SVG to Create Images Using Code 3. Building an Interactive Scatter Plot 4. Making a Basic Scatter Plot Interactive 5. Creating a Bar Graph Using a Data File 6. Animating SVG Elements to Create an Interactive Pie Chart 7. Using Physics to Create a Force-Directed Graph 8. Mapping 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Use data attached to a visual element to affect its appearance

We can change attributes for a selection of DOM elements by passing static values, and all selected elements will have that attribute set to that one specific value. Add the following temporarily to the end of app.js:

d3.selectAll('circle').attr('cy', 300);

The following should be seen on your screen:

But now that each circle has one of our runs JavaScript data objects attached to it, we can set attributes on each circle using that data. We do that by passing the .attr() method a callback function instead of a static value for its second parameter. Remove d3.selectAll('circle').attr('cy', 300); and adjust the last line of app.js from d3.selectAll('circle').data(runs); to the following:

d3.selectAll('circle').data(runs)
    .attr('cy', function...
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