Timline demo created using vis.js

http://visjs.org/

by Chamath Ranasingha

HTML

<script src="http://visjs.org/dist/vis.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://visjs.org/dist/vis.css">
<div id="visualization"></div>

JavaScript

var groups = new vis.DataSet([
    {id: 0, content: 'First', value: 1},
    {id: 1, content: 'Third', value: 3},
    {id: 2, content: 'Second', value: 2}
]);

// create a dataset with items

var items = new vis.DataSet([
    {id: 0, group: 0, content: 'item 0', start: new Date(2014, 3, 17), end: new Date(2014, 3, 21)},
    {id: 1, group: 0, content: 'item 1', start: new Date(2014, 3, 19), end: new Date(2014, 3, 20)},
    {id: 2, group: 1, content: 'item 2', start: new Date(2014, 3, 16), end: new Date(2014, 3, 24)},
    {id: 3, group: 1, content: 'item 3', start: new Date(2014, 3, 23), end: new Date(2014, 3, 24)},
    {id: 4, group: 1, content: 'item 4', start: new Date(2014, 3, 22), end: new Date(2014, 3, 26)},
    {id: 5, group: 2, content: 'item 5', start: new Date(2014, 3, 24), end: new Date(2014, 3, 27)}
  ]);

  // create visualization
  var container = document.getElementById('visualization');
  var options = {
		order: function(a ,b){
    		return b.id-a.id;
    },
    editable: true
  };

var timeline = new vis.Timeline(container);
timeline.setOptions(options);
timeline.setGroups(groups);
timeline.setItems(items);