Customizing ticks

We already saw how to use the ticks function in the previous recipe. This is the simplest ticks-related customization you can do on a D3 axis. In this recipe, we will cover some of the most common and useful ticks-related customizations with D3 axis.

Getting Ready

Open your local copy of the following file in your web browser:

https://github.com/NickQiZhu/d3-cookbook/blob/master/src/chapter5/ticks.html

How to do it...

In the following code example, we will customize the sub-ticks, padding, and formatting of its label. Let's take a look at the code snippet first:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var height = 500, 
        width = 500, 
        margin = 25,
        axisWidth = width - 2 * margin;
    
    var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
            .attr("class", "axis")
            .attr("width", width)
            .attr("height", height);
    
var scale = d3.scale.linear()
        .domain([0, 100])
        .range([0, axisWidth]);
    
    var axis = d3.svg...