Ch. 8, Fig. 2 - D3.js in Action

This is the code for Chapter 8, Figure 2 from D3.js in Action showing how to make a spreadsheet using D3 data-binding to create table, th, tr and td elements.

<html>
<head>
  <title>D3 in Action Chapter 8 - Example 1</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.5/d3.min.js"></script>
</head>
<style>
tr {
  border: 1px gray solid;
}

td {
  border: 2px black solid;
}

div.table {
  position:relative;
}
div.data {
  position: absolute;
  width: 90px;
  padding: 0 5px;
}

div.head {
  position: absolute;
}

div.datarow {
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
  border-top: 2px black solid;
  background: white;
  height: 35px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

div.gallery {
  position: relative;
}

img.infinite {
  position: absolute;
  background: rgba(255,255,255,0);
  border-width: 1px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
}

</style>
<body>
<div id="traditional"> 
</div>
</body>
  <footer>
    
<script>
d3.json("tweets.json",function(error,data) { createSpreadsheet(data.tweets)});
      
      function createSpreadsheet(incData) {
        
        var keyValues = d3.keys(incData[0])
        
        d3.select("#traditional")
        .append("table")

d3.select("table")
        .append("tr")
        .attr("class", "head")
        .selectAll("th")
        .data(keyValues)
        .enter()
        .append("th")
        .html(function (d) {return d})
        
        d3.select("table")
        .selectAll("tr.data")
        .data(incData).enter()
        .append("tr")
        .attr("class", "data")
        
        d3.selectAll("tr")
        .selectAll("td")
        .data(function(d) {return d3.entries(d)})
        .enter()
        .append("td")
        .html(function (d) {return d.value})
      }

</script>
  </footer>

</html>

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