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Cool Graph object to plot Column and Line Graphs in your web pages.

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JavaScript Graph object to plot Column and Line Graphs. Only JavaScript and DHTML required.

Horizontal

Screen Shot 1 - Horizontal Bar/Line Graph

Vertical

Screen Shot 2 - Vertical Bar/Line Graph

Introduction

Browser Compatibility:

  • IE 5.5+
  • NS 6+

Limitations:

  1. Only handles positive values.
  2. Only supports one graph per page.
  3. In Netscape, Line Graphs are not supported.

Usage

This script bellow uses the Graph object to plot column and line graphs:

HTML
<HTML>
<head>
<script language=JavaScript src=Graph.js></script>
</head>
<BODY style="font-family: Arial;">
<table align=center>
    <tr>
        <td width="5%"></td>
        <td id=here align=center></td>
        <td valign=top width="5%"><a href="">Help</a></td>
    </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
<script language=JavaScript>
var bg = new Graph(10);

bg.parent = document.getElementById('here');
bg.title = 'Current Top 10 Servers';
bg.xCaption = 'Servers';
bg.yCaption = 'Number of Connetions<br>per Server';

bg.xValues[0] = [188,'Rio de Janeiro'];
bg.xValues[1] = [180,'Sao Paulo'];
bg.xValues[2] = [159,'Brasilia'];
bg.xValues[3] = [67 ,'Belo Horizonte'];
bg.xValues[4] = [66 ,'Fortaleza'];
bg.xValues[5] = [62 ,'Manaus'];
bg.xValues[6] = [48 ,'Porto Alegre'];
bg.xValues[7] = [26 ,'Curitiba'];
bg.xValues[8] = [16 ,'Salvador'];
bg.xValues[9] = [11 ,'Natal'];

bg.showLine = true;
bg.showBar = true;
bg.orientation = 'horizontal'; // or = 'vertical';

bg.draw();
</script>
</body>
</html>

Change History

  • 10-03-2003: Release v2.1
    • Limited support to Netscape 6+
  • 09-30-2003: Release v2.0
    • Support for vertical orientation
    • Bug fixes
    • New properties
  • 12-16-2002: Release v1.0

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Comments and Discussions

 
GeneralRe: Works only with IE Pin
Anonymous28-Oct-04 1:06
Anonymous28-Oct-04 1:06 
Generalvalores iguais Pin
Alegria23-Sep-03 3:14
Alegria23-Sep-03 3:14 
GeneralTo Change the Orientation option Pin
Munirathnam kumar12-Aug-03 21:20
Munirathnam kumar12-Aug-03 21:20 
GeneralI'm surprised Pin
Kocil20-Mar-03 3:59
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jakesher8-Jun-03 7:30
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ColgateLam11-Oct-03 3:18
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GeneralNames of Variables Pin
custsalv18-Feb-03 20:18
custsalv18-Feb-03 20:18 
GeneralGreat but... Pin
Paul Watson16-Dec-02 11:21
sitebuilderPaul Watson16-Dec-02 11:21 
This looks very cool, quite impressive just with with JavaScript and HTML.

However I think we would all appreciate a full article on the code. How did you come to figuring out how to do graphs in HTML and JavaScript? How does the code work? What are the options?

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Shog9 wrote:
Everybody just wants to be naked and famous, Paul.
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