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X-Mouseover with Basis line

A line chart with mouseover so that you can read the y-value based on the closest x-value. The x-value is found using d3.mouse and scale.invert. The y-value is then found by bisecting the data.

date close
1-May-12 582.13
30-Apr-12 583.98
27-Apr-12 603.00
26-Apr-12 607.70
25-Apr-12 610.00
24-Apr-12 560.28
23-Apr-12 571.70
20-Apr-12 572.98
19-Apr-12 587.44
18-Apr-12 608.34
17-Apr-12 609.70
16-Apr-12 580.13
13-Apr-12 605.23
12-Apr-12 622.77
11-Apr-12 626.20
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {
font: 10px sans-serif;
}
.axis path,
.axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.x.axis path {
display: none;
}
.line {
fill: none;
stroke: steelblue;
stroke-width: 1.5px;
}
.overlay {
fill: none;
pointer-events: all;
}
.focus circle {
fill: none;
stroke: steelblue;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.js"></script>
<script>
var margin = {top: 20, right: 50, 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,
bisectDate = d3.bisector(function(d) { return d.date; }).left,
formatValue = d3.format(",.2f"),
formatCurrency = function(d) { return "$" + formatValue(d); };
var x = d3.time.scale()
.range([0, width]);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left");
var line = d3.svg.line()
.x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
.y(function(d) { return y(d.close); })
.interpolate('basis');
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
d3.tsv("data-small.tsv", function(error, data) {
data.forEach(function(d) {
d.date = parseDate(d.date);
d.close = +d.close;
});
data.sort(function(a, b) {
return a.date - b.date;
});
x.domain([data[0].date, data[data.length - 1].date]);
y.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.close; }));
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis)
.append("text")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
.attr("y", 6)
.attr("dy", ".71em")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.text("Price ($)");
svg.append("path")
.datum(data)
.attr("class", "line")
.attr("d", line);
var focus = svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "focus")
.style("display", "none");
focus.append("circle")
.attr("r", 4.5);
focus.append("text")
.attr("x", 9)
.attr("dy", ".35em");
svg.append("rect")
.attr("class", "overlay")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height)
.on("mouseover", function() { focus.style("display", null); })
.on("mouseout", function() { focus.style("display", "none"); })
.on("mousemove", mousemove);
function mousemove() {
var x0 = x.invert(d3.mouse(this)[0]),
i = bisectDate(data, x0, 1),
d0 = data[i - 1],
d1 = data[i],
d = x0 - d0.date > d1.date - x0 ? d1 : d0;
focus.attr("transform", "translate(" + x(d.date) + "," + y(d.close) + ")");
focus.select("text").text(formatCurrency(d.close));
}
});
</script>
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