icicle-chart

Also called a partition chart or a flame chart, an icicle chart visualizes a hierarchical data structure where nodes of a tree are represented by adjacent rectangles layed out progressively according to their depth.

Four orientation modes are supported for the axial direction of the nodes level: top-down, bottom-up, left-to-right and right-to-left.

Zooming interaction is available in the nodes cross-axis direction via mouse-wheel events or by clicking on a node, enabling a gradual exploration of the data. Clicking on a node zooms the view so that the node occupies the full width available. Clicking in the chart’s background resets the zoom to its initial position. The chart also responds to data changes by animating the dimensions of each of the nodes into their new positions.

For improved performance, nodes with width smaller than a given threshold (minSegmentWidth) are excluded from the DOM, allowing for representation of large data sets while maintaining a smooth interaction. See here for an example of a randomly generated large data structure.

See also the Sunburst, Circle Pack and Treemap charts.

Quick start

import Icicle from 'icicle-chart';

or using a script tag

<script src="//unpkg.com/icicle-chart"></script>

then

const myChart = new Icicle(<myDOMElement>)
  .data(<myData>);

API reference

Method	Description	Default
orientation([string])	Getter/setter for the orientation of the chart. Choice between td (top-down), bu (bottom-up), lr (left-to-right), rl (right-to-left).	lr
data([object])	Getter/setter for chart data (see below for syntax details).
width([number])	Getter/setter for the chart width in px.	<window width>
height([number])	Getter/setter for the chart height in px.	<window height>
children([string or fn])	Getter/setter for a data node’s children accessor, used to establish the hierarchical relationship between nodes. Supports either a string indicating the object’s property name, or a function(node) which should return an array of nodes.	children
label([string or fn])	Getter/setter for a node object label accessor, used to display labels on the segments and their tooltips.	name
size([string or fn])	Getter/setter for a node object size accessor, used to compute the widths of the segments.	value
color([string or fn])	Getter/setter for a node object color accessor, used to color the segments.	grey
nodeClassName([string or fn])	Getter/setter for a node object classname accessor. Determines the CSS class(es) to apply to each segment node.
minSegmentWidth([number])	Getter/setter for the minimum width of a segment (in px) required for it to be rendered in the DOM.	0.8
excludeRoot([boolean])	Getter/setter for whether to exclude the root node from the representation.	false
sort([fn])	Getter/setter for the compare method used to sort sibling segments. A value of null (default) maintains the existing order found in the input data structure. This method is equivalent to d3-hierarchy’s sort, it receives two arguments representing two sibling nodes and expects a numeric return value (-1, 0 or 1) indicating the order. Each element is an instance of d3-hierarchy node and has several useful properties to specify order: data (the corresponding data object), value (summed value of node and all its descendants) and depth (layer degree). For example, to order segments by size, use: (a, b) => b.value - a.value.	<existing order>
showLabels([boolean])	Getter/setter for whether to show labels in the nodes. Regardless of this setting, labels too large to fit within a segment’s width are automatically hidden.	true
showTooltip([fn])	Getter/setter to specify a node object tooltip’s visibility. If this function returns false for a particular node, that node’s tooltip will not display at all. If unspecified, all nodes’ tooltips will display.	() => true
tooltipTitle([fn])	Getter/setter for a node object tooltip title. The function should return a string to be displayed in bold in the first line of the tooltip. If unspecified, the full hierarchical name will be displayed.
tooltipContent([fn])	Getter/setter for a node object tooltip content. Use this to specify extra content in each of the segment’s tooltips in addition to the title set in tooltipTitle.
zoomToNode([node])	Programmatically zoom the chart to a particular node.
zoomBy([number])	Programmatically zoom the chart by a specific amount. 1 is unity, above one indicates a zoom-in and below a zoom-out.
zoomReset()	Programmatically reset the zoom to the global view.
onHover([fn])	Callback function for mouse hover events. The data node object (or null if hovering on background) and the event object are included as arguments onHover(node, event).
onClick([fn])	Callback function for click events. The data node object (or null if clicking on background) and the event object are included as arguments onClick(node, event). A falsy value (default) automatically zooms on clicked nodes, equivalent to myChart.onClick(myChart.zoomToNode).
onRightClick([fn])	Callback function for right-click events. The data node object (or null if right-clicking on background) and the event object are included as arguments onRightClick(node, event). A falsy value (default) will fallback to the default browser behaviour, which is to open the context menu.
transitionDuration([number])	Getter/setter for the animation duration of transitions between states (opening, zoom in/out) in milliseconds. Enter 0 to disable animations.	800

Data syntax

{
  name: "root",
  children: [
    {
      name: "leafA",
      value: 3
    },
    {
      name: "nodeB",
      children: [
        {
          name: "leafBA",
          value: 5
        },
        {
          name: "leafBB",
          value: 1
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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