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d3js: Create an HTML table using d3.js

d3js: Create an HTML table using d3.js

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset='utf-8'>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='style.css'>
</head>
<body>
<script type='text/javascript' src='script.js'></script>
</body>
</html>
var data = [
{ "date" : '2013-01-01', "close" : 45 },
{ "date" : '2013-02-01', "close" : 50 },
{ "date" : '2013-03-01', "close" : 55 },
{ "date" : '2013-04-01', "close" : 50 },
{ "date" : '2013-05-01', "close" : 45 },
{ "date" : '2013-06-01', "close" : 50 },
{ "date" : '2013-07-01', "close" : 50 },
{ "date" : '2013-08-01', "close" : 52 }
]
function tabulate(data, columns) {
var table = d3.select('body').append('table')
var thead = table.append('thead')
var tbody = table.append('tbody');
// append the header row
thead.append('tr')
.selectAll('th')
.data(columns).enter()
.append('th')
.text(function (column) { return column; });
// create a row for each object in the data
var rows = tbody.selectAll('tr')
.data(data)
.enter()
.append('tr');
// create a cell in each row for each column
var cells = rows.selectAll('td')
.data(function (row) {
return columns.map(function (column) {
return {column: column, value: row[column]};
});
})
.enter()
.append('td')
.text(function (d) { return d.value; });
return table;
}
// render the tables
tabulate(data, ['date', 'close']); // 2 column table
tabulate(data, ['date']); // table with only date column
tabulate(data, ['close']); // table with only close column
td, th {
padding: 1px 4px;
}
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hongtaoh commented Jun 9, 2021

Thanks! Works like a charm!

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