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How do you change the width of a Y-axis in a D3 chart?

I have a simple, working bar chart in D3, configured as follows:
<script>
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 70, left: 40},
width = 600 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 300 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
// Parse the date / time
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%Y-%m").parse;
//var format = d3.timeFormat("%Y-%m");
var x = d3.scale.ordinal().rangeRoundBands([0, width], .05);
var y = d3.scale.linear().range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom")
.tickFormat(d3.time.format("%Y-%m"));
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left")
.ticks(10);
var svg = d3.select("#arrChart").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform",
"translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
d3.csv("/chart-arr", function(error, data) {
data.forEach(function(d) {
d.date = parseDate(d.date);
d.value = +d.value;
});
x.domain(data.map(function(d) { return d.date; }));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.value; })]);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis)
.selectAll("text")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.attr("dx", "-.8em")
.attr("dy", "-.55em")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)" );
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis)
.attr("width", "150")
.append("text")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
.attr("y", 6)
.attr("dy", ".91em")
.attr("width", "150")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.text("Value ($)");
svg.selectAll("bar")
.data(data)
.enter().append("rect")
.style("fill", "steelblue")
.attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.date); })
.attr("width", x.rangeBand())
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.value); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.value); });
});
</script>
Right now the Y-axis is not wide enough to accommodate the text labels. My question is, how can I make the Y-axis wider to accommodate longer text labels on the Y-axis?
I tried attr("width") and various other tweaks but nothing is working.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

Simply by changing your margin left:
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 70, left: 70},
NOTE: Please try to always state which version of d3 you are using because v3 and v5 are very different in their APIs etc.
Also, always try to include some dummy data, so that the question is a minimal verifiable example - https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 70, left: 70},
width = 600 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 300 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
// Parse the date / time
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%Y-%m").parse;
//var format = d3.timeFormat("%Y-%m");
var x = d3.scale.ordinal().rangeRoundBands([0, width], .05);
var y = d3.scale.linear().range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom")
.tickFormat(d3.time.format("%Y-%m"));
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left")
.ticks(10);
var svg = d3.select("#arrChart").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform",
"translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
//d3.csv("/chart-arr", function(error, data) {
const data = [
{date: '2020-01', value: '15000'},
{date: '2020-02', value: '17000'},
{date: '2020-03', value: '10000'},
{date: '2020-04', value: '9000'}
];
data.forEach(function(d) {
d.date = parseDate(d.date);
d.value = +d.value;
});
//console.log(data)
x.domain(data.map(function(d) { return d.date; }));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.value; })]);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis)
.selectAll("text")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.attr("dx", "-.8em")
.attr("dy", "-.55em")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)" );
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis)
.attr("width", "150")
.append("text")
.attr("transform", "rotate(0) translate(60,-20)")
.attr("y", 6)
.attr("dy", ".91em")
.attr("width", "150")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.text("Value ($)");
svg.selectAll("bar")
.data(data)
.enter().append("rect")
.style("fill", "steelblue")
.attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.date); })
.attr("width", x.rangeBand())
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.value); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.value); });
//});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.17/d3.min.js"></script>
<div id="arrChart"></div>
Output:

how to draw line chart by d3.js?

I am using d3.js for first time
So I referred to http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3883245
But,after I getting data from ajax, only y axis shown.
Here's the JS code :
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 50},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%d-%b-%y").parse;
var x = d3.time.scale()
.range([0, width]);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left");
var line = d3.svg.line()
.x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
.y(function(d) { return y(d.close); });
var svg = d3.select("#wishingListMsg").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
d3.json("MYURL", function(error, data) {
if (error) throw error;console.log(data);
data.forEach(function(d) {
d.date = parseDate(d.date);
d.close = +d.close;
});
x.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.date; }));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.close; })]);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis)
.append("text")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
.attr("y", 6)
.attr("dy", ".71em")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.text("Price ($)");
svg.append("path")
.datum(data)
.attr("class", "line")
.attr("d", line);
});
and JSON data returned by browser :
[{"date":"2016-05-03","close":"500"},{"date":"2016-05-04","close":"399"},{"date":"2016-05-11","close":"1"},{"date":"2016-05-13","close":"20"}]
HTML :
<div id="wishingListMsg"></div>
How can I modify code?

Your dates in your data are like so :
2016-05-03 //year-month-day
In the example :
24-Apr-07 //day-month-year
So your date parse was wrong. So instead of this :
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%d-%b-%y").parse;
//which is trying to parse : day, abbreviated month name (which you dont have) and year
Use this parse instead :
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%Y-%m-%d").parse;
//which will parse : year, month and day (all in integers)
Documentation of time parsing : https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/Time-Formatting
I also added this CSS :
.line{
fill:none;
stroke:black;
stroke-width:2px;
}
If you remove this you'll find out why :) Basically, it defaults to a fill of black and no stroke so you have to remove the fill and just have the stroke of the path.
Update fiddle : https://jsfiddle.net/thatOneGuy/au1h6mvr/
var data = [{
"date": "2016-05-03",
"close": "500"
}, {
"date": "2016-05-04",
"close": "399"
}, {
"date": "2016-05-11",
"close": "1"
}, {
"date": "2016-05-13",
"close": "20"
}]
var margin = {
top: 20,
right: 20,
bottom: 30,
left: 50
},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%Y-%m-%d").parse;
var x = d3.time.scale()
.range([0, width]);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left");
var line = d3.svg.line()
.x(function(d) {
return x(d.date);
})
.y(function(d) {
return y(d.close);
});
var svg = d3.select("#wishingListMsg").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
data.forEach(function(d) {
console.log('date',d.date)
d.date = parseDate(d.date);
d.close = +d.close;
});
x.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) {
console.log('d',d)
return d.date;
}));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) {
return d.close;
})]);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis)
.append("text")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
.attr("y", 6)
.attr("dy", ".71em")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.text("Price ($)");
svg.append("path")
.datum(data)
.attr("class", "line")
.attr("d", line);
.line{
fill:none;
stroke:black;
stroke-width:2px;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.4.11/d3.min.js"></script>
<div id="wishingListMsg"></div>

D3.js: Changing the tick values on x-axis based on the screen width

I am making a responsive D3.js Bar Chart, by setting the height to clientWidth. Though the chart resizes after reloading in a new size, when the size is small the x-axis values overlap. I need to avoid this, how can i do it?
Script:
clientw = document.body.clientWidth;
var margin = {top: 40, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 40},
width = clientw - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var x = d3.scale.ordinal()
.rangeRoundBands([0, width], .1);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left")
.ticks(10)
.tickFormat(d3.format("s"));
var tip = d3.tip()
.attr('class', 'd3-tip')
.offset([-10, 0])
.html(function(d) {
return "<strong>Hola:</strong> <span style='color:red'>" + d.hola+ "°C"+"</span>";
})
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
svg.call(tip);
d3.tsv("data.tsv", type, function(error, data) {
x.domain(data.map(function(d) { return d.hermanos; }));
y.domain([0, 45]);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis)
.append("text")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
.attr("y", 6)
.attr("dy", ".71em")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.text("Hola");
svg.selectAll(".bar")
.data(data)
.enter().append("rect")
.attr("width", x)
.attr("fill","grey")
.attr("class", "bar")
.attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.hermanos); })
.attr("width", x.rangeBand())
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.hola); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height- y(d.hola); })
.on('mouseover', tip.show)
.on('mouseout', tip.hide)
});
function type(d) {
d.hola= +d.hola;
return d;
}

D3.js line chart axis

I gonna make a line chart:
d3.json("amountOfContent.json", function(data){
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 50};
var x=d3.time.scale()
.domain([new Date(data[0].date), d3.time.day.offset(new Date(data[data.length - 1].date), 1)])
.range([0,width]);
var y=d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.amount; })])
.range([height,0]);
var xAxis=d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom")
.tickPadding(8);
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left");
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%d-%b-%y").parse;
var line = d3.svg.line()
.x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
.y(function(d) { return y(d.amount); });
var svg = d3.select("#amount").append("svg")
.attr("width",width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height",height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
data.forEach(function(d) {
d.date = parseDate(d.date);
});
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis)
.append("text")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
.attr("y", 6)
.attr("dy", ".71em")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.text("Численность");
svg.append("path")
.datum(data)
.attr("class", "line")
.attr("d", line);
});
Everything works fine except the date axis Result of script
As you can see it's very messy. Don't understand how to make it not to display all the data and change it's format. When I change
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%d-%b-%y").parse;
for example on
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%y").parse;
Graphic disappears. Any advices?

Try this
xAxis.selectAll("text")
.attr("transform", function(d) {
return "rotate(-65)"
})
.attr("dx", "-.8em")
.attr("dy", ".15em")
.style("text-anchor","end");

Add text on top of bar in d3js chart -- no <text> elements added

I am creating a bar chart with d3.js from data stored in tsv file. I want to insert a text in each bar. How I can do?
I have tried even this solution, but doesn't work.
Here is the code of my function:
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 40},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var formatPercent = d3.format(".0%");
var x = d3.scale.ordinal()
.rangeRoundBands([0, width], .1, 1);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left");
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
function visualize(file){
d3.tsv(file, function(error, data) {
data.forEach(function(d) {
d.weight = +d.weight;
});
x.domain(data.map(function(d) { return d.concept; }));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.weight; })]);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis)
.append("text")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
.attr("y", 6)
.attr("dy", ".71em")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.text("weight");
svg.selectAll(".bar")
.data(data)
.enter().append("rect").style("fill", function (d){return d.color;})
.attr("class", "bar")
.attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.concept); })
.attr("width", x.rangeBand())
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.weight); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.weight); });
svg.selectAll("text")
.data(data)
.enter()
.append("text")
.text(function(d) {
return d.concept;
})
.attr("text-anchor", "middle")
.attr("x", x)
.attr("y",y)
.attr("font-family", "sans-serif")
.attr("font-size", "11px")
.attr("fill", "white");
});
}
All my code with the files tsv are here: full code

AmeliaBR is right as usual, and I am only putting this answer because while I was working on it, I saw myself changing the code so that it really makes use of the Enter, Update, Exit selection paradigm. I have made quite a few changes in that regard. Here is the code, FWIW:
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 40},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var formatPercent = d3.format(".0%");
var x = d3.scale.ordinal()
.rangeRoundBands([0, width], .1, 1);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left");
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis)
.append("text")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
.attr("y", 6)
.attr("dy", ".71em")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.text("weight");
var g = svg.append("g");
function update(file){
d3.tsv(file, function(error, data) {
data.forEach(function(d) {
d.weight = +d.weight;
});
x.domain(data.map(function(d) { return d.concept; }));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.weight; })]);
var bar = g.selectAll(".bar")
.data(data);
bar.enter()
.append("rect")
.attr("class","bar");
bar
.style("fill", function (d){return d.color;})
.attr("class", "bar")
.attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.concept); })
.attr("width", x.rangeBand())
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.weight); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.weight); });
bar.exit().remove();
var text = g.selectAll(".text")
.data(data);
text.enter()
.append("text")
.attr("class","text");
text
.attr("text-anchor", "right")
.attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.concept); })
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.weight) + 22;})
.attr("font-family", "sans-serif")
.attr("font-size", "11px")
.attr("fill", "white")
.text(function(d) {
return d.concept;
});
text.exit().remove();
});
}
And you call it like by doing update("data16.tsv") and then update("data15.tsv").

When you draw an axis, it creates separate <text> elements for each label inside the axis group inside the SVG. So if you then try to select all the <text> elements in the SVG, you're going to select all your axis labels. If you have more axis labels than data for text elements, your enter() selection will be empty and nothing will happen.
To be sure you're only selecting the correct <text> elements, give your text labels a class to distinguish them from the axis labels. And then use that class to narrow-down your selector:
svg.selectAll("text.bar-label")
.data(data)
.enter()
.append("text")
.attr("class", "bar-label")