An alternative to Unicode superscripts, using axis post-selection to add tspan elements.
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Superscript Format II
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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <meta charset="utf-8"> | |
| <style> | |
| .axis path, | |
| .axis line { | |
| fill: none; | |
| stroke: #000; | |
| shape-rendering: crispEdges; | |
| } | |
| .axis text { | |
| font: 13px "helvetica neue"; | |
| } | |
| .axis tspan { | |
| font-size: 9px; | |
| } | |
| </style> | |
| <body> | |
| <script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script> | |
| <script> | |
| var margin = {top: 250, right: 20, bottom: 250, left: 20}, | |
| width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right, | |
| height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom; | |
| var x = d3.scale.log() | |
| .domain([1e-4, 1e4]) | |
| .range([0, width]); | |
| var xAxis = d3.svg.axis() | |
| .scale(x) | |
| .orient("bottom"); | |
| 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") | |
| .text(null) | |
| .filter(powerOfTen) | |
| .text(10) | |
| .append("tspan") | |
| .attr("dy", "-.7em") | |
| .text(function(d) { return Math.round(Math.log(d) / Math.LN10); }); | |
| function powerOfTen(d) { | |
| return d / Math.pow(10, Math.ceil(Math.log(d) / Math.LN10 - 1e-12)) === 1; | |
| } | |
| </script> |
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