Rotating Text Labels for a Graph Axis
Explore how to improve D3 graph readability by rotating x-axis text labels. Learn to increase bottom margins, style text anchors, adjust label positions with dx and dy, and apply a rotation transform for clearer visualization of axis values.
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An answer to the problem of overlapping axis values might be to rotate the text to provide more space.
Preparation
The first substantive change would be a little housekeeping. Because we are going to be rotating the text at the bottom of the graph, we are going to need some extra space to fit in our labels. So we should change our bottom margin appropriately.
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20,