Using transition chaining

The first four recipes in this chapter are focused on single transition controls in D3, including custom easing and tweening functions. However, sometimes regardless of how much easing or tweening you do, a single transition is just not enough, for instance, you want to simulate teleporting a div element by first squeezing the div element into a beam, then passing the beam to a different position on the web page, and finally restoring the div to its original size. In this recipe, we will see exactly how this type of transition can be achieved using transition chaining.

Getting Ready

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

https://github.com/NickQiZhu/d3-cookbook/blob/master/src/chapter6/chaining.html

How to do it...

Our simple teleportation transition code is surprisingly short:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var body = d3.select("body");
        
    function teleport(s){
        s.transition().duration(300) // <-A
          ...