Setting Up and Configuring the Axes

Basic graph

As referenced in the “A Simple Graph” lesson where we initially developed our simple graph, the axes of that graph had no styling or configuration changes made to them at all. One of the results of this is that the font size, type, number of ticks, and the way that the values are represented is very much at the default settings. This means that when we change our initial graph:

And when we compress the margins or graph size, we end up with overlapping axes labels that are not really suitable for the purpose:

Luckily, the D3 axis ...