Left-Aligned Ticks

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Left-Aligned Ticks

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Last edited Feb 9, 2016

Created on Aug 8, 2013

This example shows a bottom-oriented time axis where tick labels are left-aligned instead of centered, placing each label to the right of its tick mark. The code uses a d3.time.scale with an extended domain and range, adding one month on each side to reserve space, and d3.svg.axis with the “bottom” orient. After rendering, a post-selection targets all text elements and sets x and y offsets with text-anchor “start” to shift the labels. The visualization renders as SVG with d3.v3.

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This example demonstrates how to create left-aligned axis labels using post-selection. First, the scale’s domain and range are extended by one month on either end to create additional space for the first and last tick. Then, after the axis is rendered, the text label elements are selected, and then attributes on the elements are modified to customize the label appearance.

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