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formatting numbers example d3v3
license: CC0-1.0
border: no

This little tool helps you try out d3.format specifiers on different numbers.

Documentation for format specifiers is here

a friendly fork of the original bl.ock from @zanstrong

this iteration moves the descriptive text to README.md so that the link to the docs is clickable 😄

thanks to guilherme from the d3js slack for suggesting this improvement

<!doctype html>
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8'>
<title>formatting numbers example d3v3</title>
<style>
body {
margin: 20px 0px 0px 50px;
}
.formattext {
text-align: right;
}
.formatresult {
text-align: left;
padding-left: 40px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Enter a number:<br>
<input id='userNum' type='string'><br><br>
Add your own format specifier (ex: .4n):<br>
<input id='formatSpecifier' type='string'><br>
<table style='padding-top: 20px;'>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class='formattext'>format specifier</th>
<th class='formatresult'>resulting formatted number</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
<script src='http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js' charset='utf-8'></script>
<script src='showFormatsConstructor.js'></script>
<script>
// define variables
var formatlist = ["", "s", ",%", "+,%", ",.1%", ".4r", ".4f", ".4n", ".3n", ",d", ",.0f", ".0f", ".0e", ".1e"];
var userNum = document.getElementById("userNum");
var colorLow = 'blue'
var colorHigh = 'red'
// add listener to call formatter function when user changes the number
userNum.addEventListener("input",
function(e) {
myFormats.changeNumber(userNum.value);
},
false
);
// need way to update list
formatSpecifier.addEventListener("change",
function(e) {
myFormats.addToList(formatSpecifier.value);
},
false
);
// create a little color scale function to make the output look pretty
function setColorScale(max) {
return d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, max])
.interpolate(d3.interpolateRgb)
.range([colorLow, colorHigh])
}
// construct code/text pairs from list of formats I could use
var constructFormatObject = function(mylist) {
var types = [];
mylist.forEach(function(d) {
types.push({
code: d3.format(d),
text: 'd3.format("' + d + '")'
})
})
return types
}
var myFormats = new ShowFormats(
formatlist,
0);
</script>
</body>
</html>
// set up showformats constructor
ShowFormats = function(formatList, number) {
// list of format specifiers to show
this.formatList = formatList;
this.formatObject = constructFormatObject(formatList);
this.dataset = Array.apply(0,
Array(this.formatObject.length)).map(function(x, y) {
return y;
});;
// number to format
this.number = number;
this.colorScale = setColorScale(this.dataset.length)
var self = this;
// set up defaults
this.selection = d3.select("tbody").selectAll("tr")
.data(this.dataset)
.enter()
.append("tr");
this.selection
.append("td")
.text(function(d) {
return self.formatObject[d].text;
})
.style("color", function(d) {
return self.colorScale(d)
})
.attr("class", "formattext");
this.selection
.append("td")
.text(function(d) {
return self.formatObject[d].code(self.number);
})
.style("color", function(d) {
return self.colorScale(d)
})
.attr("class", "formatresult");
}
ShowFormats.prototype.changeNumber = function(number) {
this.number = number;
this.updateFormats();
}
ShowFormats.prototype.addToList = function(specifier) {
this.formatList.unshift(specifier)
this.formatObject = constructFormatObject(this.formatList);
// update dataset array w/ new length
this.dataset = Array.apply(0,
Array(this.formatObject.length)).map(function(x, y) {
return y;
});;
this.updateFormats();
}
ShowFormats.prototype.tdtextStyling = function(selection) {
selection.text(function(d) {
return self.formatObject[d].text;
})
.style("color", function(d) {
return self.colorScale(d)
})
.attr("class", "formattext");
}
ShowFormats.prototype.tdcodeStyling = function(selection) {
selection.text(function(d) {
return self.formatObject[d].code(self.number);
})
.style("color", function(d) {
return self.colorScale(d)
})
.attr("class", "formatresult");
}
ShowFormats.prototype.updateFormats = function() {
self = this;
// bind with current dataset
this.selection = d3.selectAll("tbody").selectAll("tr")
.data(self.dataset);
// enter elements
var k = this.selection.enter().append("tr")
k.append("td")
.call(self.tdtextStyling);
k.append("td")
.call(self.tdcodeStyling);
// update elements
this.selection
.selectAll("td")
.text(function(d, i) {
if (i == 0) {
return self.formatObject[d].text;
}
if (i == 1) {
return self.formatObject[d].code(self.number);
}
})
.style("color", function(d) {
return self.colorScale(d)
})
.attr("class", function(d, i) {
if (i == 0) {
return "formattext"
} else {
return "formatresult"
}
})
}
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