Formatting Ticks in JavaScript
How to format axes ticks in D3.js-based JavaScript charts.
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{
xaxis: {
/* show/hide tick labels (defaults to true) */
showticklabels: boolean,
/* Set the tick mode for the axis "auto" or "linear" or "array" */
tickmode: 'auto',
/* Set the placement of the first tick*/
tick0: '',
/* Set the step in-between ticks*/
dtick: '',
/* Specifies the maximum number of ticks */
nticks: 0,
/* Set the values at which ticks on this axis appear */
tickvals: [ /* */ ],
/* Set the text displayed at the ticks position via tickvals */
ticktext: [ /* */ ],
/* Set the source reference for tickvals */
tickvalssrc: '',
/* Set the source reference for ticktext */
tickvtextsrc: '',
/* Set the tick label formatting rule using d3 formatting mini-languages */
tickformat: '',
/* Set the tickformat per zoom level */
tickformatstops: {
enabled: true,
/* Set the range of the dtick values which describe the zoom level, it is possible to omit "min" or "max" value by passing "null" */
dtickrange: ["min", "max"],
/* dtickformat for described zoom level, the same as "tickformat" */
value: string,
},
/* Set the ticks to display with a prefix: "all" or "first" or "last" or "none" */
showtickprefix: 'all',
tickprefix: string,
/* Set the ticks to display with a suffix: "all" or "first" or "last" or "none" */
showticksuffix: 'all',
ticksuffix: string,
/* Determines a formatting rule for the tick exponents: "none" or "e" or "E" or "power" or "SI" or "B" */
exponentformat: 'B',
}
/* similarly for yaxis */
}
var x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12];
var y = [28.8, 28.5, 37, 56.8, 69.7, 79.7, 78.5, 77.8, 74.1, 62.6, 45.3, 39.9];
var data = [{
x: x,
y: y,
type: 'scatter'
}];
var layout = {
xaxis: {
tickmode: "linear", // If "linear", the placement of the ticks is determined by a starting position `tick0` and a tick step `dtick`
tick0: 0.5,
dtick: 0.75
}
}
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);
var x = ['2000-01', '2000-02', '2000-03', '2000-04', '2000-05', '2000-06', '2000-07', '2000-08', '2000-09', '2000-10', '2000-11', '2000-12', '2001-01'];
var y = [-36.5, -26.6, -43.6, -52.3, -71.5, -81.4, -80.5, -82.2, -76, -67.3, -46.1, -35, -40];
var data = [{
x: x,
y: y,
type: 'scatter'
}];
var layout = {
xaxis: {
tickmode: "linear", // If "linear", the placement of the ticks is determined by a starting position `tick0` and a tick step `dtick`
tick0: '1999-12-15',
dtick: 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 // milliseconds
}
}
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);var x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12];
var y = [28.8, 28.5, 37, 56.8, 69.7, 79.7, 78.5, 77.8, 74.1, 62.6, 45.3, 39.9];
var data = [{
x: x,
y: y,
type: 'scatter'
}];
var layout = {
xaxis: {
tickmode: "array", // If "array", the placement of the ticks is set via `tickvals` and the tick text is `ticktext`.
tickvals: [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11],
ticktext: ['One', 'Three', 'Five', 'Seven', 'Nine', 'Eleven']
}
}
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);var x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12];
var y = [0.18, 0.38, 0.56, 0.46, 0.59, 0.4, 0.78, 0.77, 0.74, 0.42, 0.45, 0.39];
var data = [{
x: x,
y: y,
type: 'scatter'
}];
var layout = {
yaxis: {
tickformat: '%' // For more formatting types, see: https://github.com/d3/d3-format/blob/master/README.md#locale_format
}
}
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);d3.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/finance-charts-apple.csv", function (err, rows) {
function unpack(rows, key) {
return rows.map(function (row) {
return row[key];
});
}
var trace1 = {
type: "scatter",
mode: "lines",
name: 'AAPL High',
x: unpack(rows, 'Date'),
y: unpack(rows, 'AAPL.High'),
line: {
color: '#17BECF'
}
}
var trace2 = {
type: "scatter",
mode: "lines",
name: 'AAPL Low',
x: unpack(rows, 'Date'),
y: unpack(rows, 'AAPL.Low'),
line: {
color: '#7F7F7F'
}
}
var data = [trace1, trace2];
var layout = {
title: 'Time series with custom tickformat',
xaxis: {
tickformat: '%d %B (%a)\n %Y' // For more time formatting types, see: https://github.com/d3/d3-time-format/blob/master/README.md
}
};
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);
})
var gd = document.getElementById('myDiv');
var x = ["2005-01", "2005-02", "2005-03", "2005-04", "2005-05", "2005-06", "2005-07"];
var y = [-20, 10, -5, 0, 5, -10, 20];
var data = [{
x: x,
y: y,
type: 'scatter'
}];
var layout = {
xaxis: {
tickformatstops: [{
"dtickrange": [null, 1000],
"value": "%H:%M:%S.%L ms"
},
{
"dtickrange": [1000, 60000],
"value": "%H:%M:%S s"
},
{
"dtickrange": [60000, 3600000],
"value": "%H:%M m"
},
{
"dtickrange": [3600000, 86400000],
"value": "%H:%M h"
},
{
"dtickrange": [86400000, 604800000],
"value": "%e. %b d"
},
{
"dtickrange": [604800000, "M1"],
"value": "%e. %b w"
},
{
"dtickrange": ["M1", "M12"],
"value": "%b '%y M"
},
{
"dtickrange": ["M12", null],
"value": "%Y Y"
}
]
}
};
Plotly.newPlot("myDiv", data, layout);
var x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12];
var y = [68000, 52000, 60000, 20000, 95000, 40000, 60000, 79000, 74000, 42000, 20000, 90000];
var data = [{
x: x,
y: y,
type: 'scatter'
}];
var layout = {
yaxis: {
showexponent: 'all',
exponentformat: 'e'
}
}
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout);var x = ['2013-02-04', '2013-04-05', '2013-06-06', '2013-08-07', '2013-10-02'];
var y = [1, 4, 3, 6, 2];
var data = [{
x: x,
y: y,
type: 'scatter'
}];
var layout = {
xaxis: {
tickformat: '%a %e %b \n %Y'
}
}
Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data, layout, {
locale: 'fr' // For more info, see: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/dist/README.md#to-include-localization and https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/tree/master/dist
});
