Show/Hide Elements
Explore how to implement click events in D3.js to toggle the visibility of graph elements such as lines and axes. Understand labeling elements with IDs and using JavaScript event handlers to create interactive legends that show or hide data features dynamically.
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Show/Hide an element by clicking on another element
This is a trick that I found I wanted to implement in order to present a graph with a range of lines and then provide the reader with the facility to click on the associated legend to toggle the visibility of the lines off and on as required.
The example we’ll follow is our friend from earlier; a slightly modified example of the graph with two lines.
In this example, we will be able to click on either of the two titles at the bottom of the graph (“Blue Line” or “Red Line”) and have it toggle the respective line and y-axis. ...