Show data on mouseover of circle

Question

I have a set of data that I am plotting in a scatter. When I mouseover one of the circles I would like it to popup with data (like x, y values, maybe more). Here is what I tried using:

vis.selectAll("circle")
   .data(datafiltered).enter().append("svg:circle")
   .attr("cx", function(d) { return x(d.x);})
   .attr("cy", function(d) {return y(d.y)})
   .attr("fill", "red").attr("r", 15)
   .on("mouseover", function() {
        d3.select(this).enter().append("text")
            .text(function(d) {return d.x;})
            .attr("x", function(d) {return x(d.x);})
            .attr("y", function (d) {return y(d.y);}); });

I suspect I need to be more informative about what data to enter?

Answer 1

I assume that what you want is a tooltip. The easiest way to do this is to append an svg:title element to each circle, as the browser will take care of showing the tooltip and you don't need the mousehandler. The code would be something like

vis.selectAll("circle")
   .data(datafiltered).enter().append("svg:circle")
   ...
   .append("svg:title")
   .text(function(d) { return d.x; });

If you want fancier tooltips, you could use tipsy for example. See here for an example.

Answer 2

There is an awesome library for doing that that I recently discovered. It's simple to use and the result is quite neat: d3-tip.

You can see an example here:

Basically, all you have to do is to download(index.js), include the script:

<script src="index.js"></script>

and then follow the instructions from here (same link as example)

But for your code, it would be something like:

define the method:

var tip = d3.tip()
  .attr('class', 'd3-tip')
  .offset([-10, 0])
  .html(function(d) {
    return "<strong>Frequency:</strong> <span style='color:red'>" + d.frequency + "</span>";
  })

create your svg (as you already do)

var svg = ...

call the method:

svg.call(tip);

add tip to your object:

vis.selectAll("circle")
   .data(datafiltered).enter().append("svg:circle")
...
   .on('mouseover', tip.show)
   .on('mouseout', tip.hide)

Don't forget to add the CSS:

<style>
.d3-tip {
  line-height: 1;
  font-weight: bold;
  padding: 12px;
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
  color: #fff;
  border-radius: 2px;
}

/* Creates a small triangle extender for the tooltip */
.d3-tip:after {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  display: inline;
  font-size: 10px;
  width: 100%;
  line-height: 1;
  color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
  content: "\25BC";
  position: absolute;
  text-align: center;
}

/* Style northward tooltips differently */
.d3-tip.n:after {
  margin: -1px 0 0 0;
  top: 100%;
  left: 0;
}
</style>

Answer 3

A really good way to make a tooltip is described here: Simple D3 tooltip example

You have to append a div

var tooltip = d3.select("body")
    .append("div")
    .style("position", "absolute")
    .style("z-index", "10")
    .style("visibility", "hidden")
    .text("a simple tooltip");

Then you can just toggle it using

.on("mouseover", function(){return tooltip.style("visibility", "visible");})
.on("mousemove", function(){return tooltip.style("top",
    (d3.event.pageY-10)+"px").style("left",(d3.event.pageX+10)+"px");})
.on("mouseout", function(){return tooltip.style("visibility", "hidden");});

d3.event.pageX / d3.event.pageY is the current mouse coordinate.

If you want to change the text you can use tooltip.text("my tooltip text");

Working Example

Answer 4

This concise example demonstrates common way how to create custom tooltip in d3.

var w = 500;
var h = 150;

var dataset = [5, 10, 15, 20, 25];

// firstly we create div element that we can use as
// tooltip container, it have absolute position and
// visibility: hidden by default

var tooltip = d3.select("body")
  .append("div")
  .attr('class', 'tooltip');

var svg = d3.select("body")
  .append("svg")
  .attr("width", w)
  .attr("height", h);

// here we add some circles on the page

var circles = svg.selectAll("circle")
  .data(dataset)
  .enter()
  .append("circle");

circles.attr("cx", function(d, i) {
    return (i * 50) + 25;
  })
  .attr("cy", h / 2)
  .attr("r", function(d) {
    return d;
  })
  
  // we define "mouseover" handler, here we change tooltip
  // visibility to "visible" and add appropriate test
  
  .on("mouseover", function(d) {
    return tooltip.style("visibility", "visible").text('radius = ' + d);
  })
  
  // we move tooltip during of "mousemove"
  
  .on("mousemove", function() {
    return tooltip.style("top", (event.pageY - 30) + "px")
      .style("left", event.pageX + "px");
  })
  
  // we hide our tooltip on "mouseout"
  
  .on("mouseout", function() {
    return tooltip.style("visibility", "hidden");
  });

.tooltip {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 10;
    visibility: hidden;
    background-color: lightblue;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 4px;
    border-radius: 4px;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: orange;
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/4.11.0/d3.min.js"></script>

Answer 5

You can pass in the data to be used in the mouseover like this- the mouseover event uses a function with your previously entered data as an argument (and the index as a second argument) so you don't need to use enter() a second time.

vis.selectAll("circle")
.data(datafiltered).enter().append("svg:circle")
.attr("cx", function(d) { return x(d.x);})
.attr("cy", function(d) {return y(d.y)})
.attr("fill", "red").attr("r", 15)
.on("mouseover", function(d,i) {
    d3.select(this).append("text")
        .text( d.x)
        .attr("x", x(d.x))
        .attr("y", y(d.y)); 
});