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Learning D3.js Mapping

You're reading from   Learning D3.js Mapping Build stunning maps and visualizations using D3.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783985609
Length 126 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Thomas Newton Thomas Newton
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Oscar Villarreal Oscar Villarreal
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Gather Your Cartographer's Toolbox FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Images from Simple Text 3. Producing Graphics from Data – the Foundations of D3 4. Creating a Map 5. Click-click Boom! Applying Interactivity to Your Map 6. Finding and Working with Geographic Data 7. Testing Index

Experiment 1 – hover events


Building on our previous example, we can easily swap our click method into a hover method. Instead of having var click, we will now have var hover with the corresponding function. Feel free to open example-1.html of the chapter-5 code base to go over the complete example (http://localhost:8080/chapter-5/example-1.html). Let's review the changes necessary to change our click event to a hover event. In this particular case, we will need a little more CSS and HTML. In our <style> tag, add the following lines:

#tooltip{
position: absolute;
z-index: 2;
background: rgba(0,153,76,0.8);
width:130px;
height:20px;
color:white;
font-size: 14px;
padding:5px;
top:-150px;
left:-150px;
font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Light", "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
}

This style is for a basic tooltip. It is positioned "absolutely" so that it can take whatever x and y coordinates we give it (left and top). It also has some filler...

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