D3 basic bar chart with divs

by Dan Shahin

HTML

<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<div class="chart"></div>

CSS

.chart div {
  font: 10px sans-serif;
  background-color: steelblue;
  text-align: right;
  padding: 3px;
  margin: 1px;
  color: white;
}

JavaScript

var data = [4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42, 3, 12];

var getWidth = d3.scale.linear()
    .domain([0, d3.max(data)]) //domain is data size
    .range([0, 500]); //range is display size

d3.select(".chart")
  .selectAll("div")
  .data(data)
  .enter().append("div")
  .style("width", function(d) { return getWidth(d) + "px"; })
  .text(function(d) { return d; });