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Date slider
license: mit
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<style>
body {
font-family:"avenir next", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #696969;
}
.ticks {
font-size: 10px;
}
.track,
.track-inset,
.track-overlay {
stroke-linecap: round;
}
.track {
stroke: #000;
stroke-opacity: 0.3;
stroke-width: 10px;
}
.track-inset {
stroke: #ddd;
stroke-width: 8px;
}
.track-overlay {
pointer-events: stroke;
stroke-width: 50px;
stroke: transparent;
cursor: crosshair;
}
.handle {
fill: #fff;
stroke: #000;
stroke-opacity: 0.5;
stroke-width: 1.25px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="slider"></div>
<script>
var formatDateIntoYear = d3.timeFormat("%Y");
var formatDate = d3.timeFormat("%b %Y");
var startDate = new Date("2004-11-01"),
endDate = new Date("2017-04-01");
var margin = {top:0, right:50, bottom:0, left:50},
width = 960 -margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var svg = d3.select("#slider")
.append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height);
var x = d3.scaleTime()
.domain([startDate, endDate])
.range([0, width])
.clamp(true);
var slider = svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "slider")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + height / 2 + ")");
slider.append("line")
.attr("class", "track")
.attr("x1", x.range()[0])
.attr("x2", x.range()[1])
.select(function() { return this.parentNode.appendChild(this.cloneNode(true)); })
.attr("class", "track-inset")
.select(function() { return this.parentNode.appendChild(this.cloneNode(true)); })
.attr("class", "track-overlay")
.call(d3.drag()
.on("start.interrupt", function() { slider.interrupt(); })
.on("start drag", function() { hue(x.invert(d3.event.x)); }));
slider.insert("g", ".track-overlay")
.attr("class", "ticks")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + 18 + ")")
.selectAll("text")
.data(x.ticks(10))
.enter()
.append("text")
.attr("x", x)
.attr("y", 10)
.attr("text-anchor", "middle")
.text(function(d) { return formatDateIntoYear(d); });
var label = slider.append("text")
.attr("class", "label")
.attr("text-anchor", "middle")
.text(formatDate(startDate))
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + (-25) + ")")
var handle = slider.insert("circle", ".track-overlay")
.attr("class", "handle")
.attr("r", 9);
function hue(h) {
handle.attr("cx", x(h));
label
.attr("x", x(h))
.text(formatDate(h));
svg.style("background-color", d3.hsl(h/1000000000, 0.8, 0.8));
}
</script>
</body>
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