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Month Axis
license: gpl-3.0
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.axis text {
font: 10px sans-serif;
}
.axis path,
.axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
var margin = {top: 10, right: 10, bottom: 20, left: 10},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 80 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var x = d3.time.scale()
.domain([new Date(2012, 0, 1), new Date(2012, 11, 31)])
.range([0, width]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom")
.ticks(d3.time.months)
.tickSize(16, 0)
.tickFormat(d3.time.format("%B"));
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)
.selectAll(".tick text")
.style("text-anchor", "start")
.attr("x", 6)
.attr("y", 6);
</script>
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