block by mbostock 5537697

Log Axis

Full Screen

An example of the axis component with the log scale, here using an arbtirary hard-coded domain.

index.html

<!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: 210, right: 20, bottom: 220, left: 20},
    width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
    height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;

var x = d3.scale.log()
    .domain([.0124123, 1230.4])
    .range([0, width]);

var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
    .scale(x)
    .orient("bottom")
    .ticks(20, ",.1s")
    .tickSize(6, 0);

var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
    .attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
    .attr("height", height + margin.right + margin.bottom)
  .append("g")
    .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");

svg.append("g")
    .attr("class", "x axis")
    .call(xAxis);

</script>