Text on an Arc - Animal Donut Slices - Default Arc Labels

This is the first "Animal Donut Chart" example of the Blog Placing Texts on Arcs with D3.js in which the texts are placed at the start of each arc. All without writing the SVG path notations yourself.

The next step has this text centered along the arcs
The final version also has the bottom half of the texts flipped

Other examples of text along a path from the same blog

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
	<title>Donut Chart - Default Labels</title>

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.6/d3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
	
	
	<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Pacifico' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
	
	<style>
		body {
			font-family: 'Pacifico', sans-serif;
			fill: #333333;
			font-size: 16px;
			text-align: center;
		}
	</style>
  </head>
  <body>

<div id="chart"></div>
	
    <script>
	
		////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
		//////////////////////// Set-up ////////////////////////////
		////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

var screenWidth = window.innerWidth;

var margin = {left: 20, top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 20},
			width = Math.min(screenWidth, 500) - margin.left - margin.right,
			height = Math.min(screenWidth, 500) - margin.top - margin.bottom;
					
		var svg = d3.select("#chart").append("svg")
					.attr("width", (width + margin.left + margin.right))
					.attr("height", (height + margin.top + margin.bottom))
				   .append("g").attr("class", "wrapper")
					.attr("transform", "translate(" + (width / 2 + margin.left) + "," + (height / 2 + margin.top) + ")");

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 
		///////////////////// Data &  Scales ///////////////////////// 
		//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//Some random data
		var donutData = [
			{name: "Antelope", 	value: 15},
			{name: "Bear", 		value: 9},
			{name: "Cheetah", 	value: 19},
			{name: "Dolphin", 	value: 12},
			{name: "Elephant",	value: 14},
			{name: "Flamingo", 	value: 21},
			{name: "Giraffe", value: 18},
			{name: "Other", 	value: 8}
		];
			
		//Create a color scale
		var colorScale = d3.scale.linear()
		   .domain([1,3.5,6])
		   .range(["#2c7bb6", "#ffffbf", "#d7191c"])
		   .interpolate(d3.interpolateHcl);

//Create an arc function   
		var arc = d3.svg.arc()
			.innerRadius(width*0.75/2) 
			.outerRadius(width*0.75/2 + 30);

//Turn the pie chart 90 degrees counter clockwise, so it starts at the left	
		var pie = d3.layout.pie()
			.startAngle(-90 * Math.PI/180)
			.endAngle(-90 * Math.PI/180 + 2*Math.PI)
			.value(function(d) { return d.value; })
			.padAngle(.01)
			.sort(null);
		 
		////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 
		//////////////////// Create Donut Chart ////////////////////// 
		//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//Create the donut slices
		svg.selectAll(".donutArcSlices")
			.data(pie(donutData))
		  .enter().append("path")
			.attr("class", "donutArcSlices")
			.attr("id", function(d,i) { return "donutArc"+i; })
			.attr("d", arc)
			.style("fill", function(d,i) {
				if(i === 7) return "#CCCCCC"; //Other
				else return colorScale(i); 
			});
			
		//Append the label names on the outside
		svg.selectAll(".donutText")
			.data(donutData)
		   .enter().append("text")
			.attr("class", "donutText")
			.attr("dy", -13)
		   .append("textPath")
			.attr("xlink:href",function(d,i){return "#donutArc"+i;})
			.text(function(d){return d.name;});
	
	</script>
	
  </body>
</html>

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