How to use D3 selectAll with multiple class names
I'm experimenting with using multiple class names for SVG elements so that (hopefully) I could select a subset of them using selectAll and "parts" of the class name. Unfortunately nothing I've tried works and I haven't found an example online. The code below demonstrates what I'm trying to do with a simple example of four circles. Two circles have class name "mYc 101" and two circles have class name "mYc 202". selectAll(".mYc") gives all four circles. What if I want only the circles with class name "mYc 101"? Can this be done? How? Thanks times infinity!!
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<body>
<div id="my_div"></div>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
var m_div = d3.select("#my_div");
var m_svg = m_div.append("svg");
var g = m_svg.append("g");
g.append("circle")
.attr("class", "mYc 101")
.attr("cx", 100)
.attr("cy", 100)
.attr("r", 50)
.attr("style", "stroke: green; stroke-width: 8; fill: #000000");
g.append("circle")
.attr("class", "mYc 101")
.attr("cx", 300)
.attr("cy", 100)
.attr("r", 50)
.attr("style", "stroke: green; stroke-width: 8; fill: #000000");
g.append("circle")
.attr("class", "mYc 202")
.attr("cx", 100)
.attr("cy", 300)
.attr("r", 50)
.attr("style", "stroke: blue; stroke-width: 8; fill: #000000");
g.append("circle")
.attr("class", "mYc 202")
.attr("cx", 300)
.attr("cy", 300)
.attr("r", 50)
.attr("style", "stroke: blue; stroke-width: 8; fill: #000000");
// This selects all four circles
var list = d3.selectAll(".mYc");
// But if I want to select only class "mYc 101", none of these work.
// In fact they all give an error.
// var list1 = d3.selectAll(".mYc 101");
// var list1 = d3.selectAll(".mYc .101");
// var list1 = d3.selectAll(".mYc.101");
// var list1 = d3.selectAll(".mYc,.101");
// var list1 = d3.selectAll(".101");
</script>
</body>
Answer
The most D3 way to do this would be to chain the selectors using the filter method:
var list1 = d3.selectAll(".mYc").filter(".101");
This won't work though because class names cannot start with a number. So you have to rename to something like "a101" and then you can do
var list1 = d3.selectAll(".mYc").filter(".a101");
See this fiddle.