Tilted Axis Labels

A bar chart showing world religions. Example 9 from the screencast Splitting Charts. This shows how to make tilted tick labels. Draws from How to rotate the text labels...

MIT License

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>D3 Example</title>
    <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.5/d3.min.js"></script>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <style>
    
      .axis text {
        font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
        font-size: 20pt;
      }
      .axis .label {
        font-size: 20pt;
      }

.axis path, .axis line {
        fill: none;
        stroke: #000;
        shape-rendering: crispEdges;
      }

.x.axis text {
        font-size: 20pt;
      }

</style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <script>
      var outerWidth = 960;
      var outerHeight = 500;
      var margin = { left: 90, top: 16, right: 30, bottom: 85 };
      var barPadding = 0.2;

var xColumn = "religion";
      var yColumn = "population";

var innerWidth  = outerWidth  - margin.left - margin.right;
      var innerHeight = outerHeight - margin.top  - margin.bottom;

var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
        .attr("width",  outerWidth)
        .attr("height", outerHeight);
      var g = svg.append("g")
        .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
      var xAxisG = g.append("g")
        .attr("class", "x axis")
        .attr("transform", "translate(0," + innerHeight + ")");
      var yAxisG = g.append("g")
        .attr("class", "y axis");

var xScale = d3.scale.ordinal().rangeBands([0, innerWidth], barPadding);
      var yScale = d3.scale.linear().range([innerHeight, 0]);

// Use a modified SI formatter that uses "B" for Billion.
      var siFormat = d3.format("s");
      var customTickFormat = function (d){
        return siFormat(d).replace("G", "B");
      };

var xAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(xScale).orient("bottom")
        .outerTickSize(0);
      var yAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(yScale).orient("left")
        .ticks(10)
        .tickFormat(customTickFormat)
        .outerTickSize(0);

function render(data){

xScale.domain(       data.map( function (d){ return d[xColumn]; }));
        yScale.domain([0, d3.max(data, function (d){ return d[yColumn]; })]);

xAxisG
          .call(xAxis)
          .selectAll("text")  
          .attr("dx", "-0.4em")
          .attr("dy", "1.24em")
          .attr("transform", "rotate(-16)" );

yAxisG.call(yAxis);

function type(d){
        d.population = +d.population;
        return d;
      }

d3.csv("religionWorldTotals.csv", type, render);

</script>
  </body>
</html>

https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.5/d3.min.js