treemap-chart

An interactive treemap chart for visualizing proportions in hierarchical data, where nodes of a tree are represented as nested fully-packed rectangular tiles.

Supports zooming interactions via mouse-wheel events or by clicking on a node, which focuses the viewport on the associated sub-tree. 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 area (width*height) smaller than a given threshold (minBlockArea) 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 Circle Pack, Icicle and Sunburst charts.

Quick start

import Treemap from 'treemap-chart';

or using a script tag

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

then

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

API reference

Method	Description	Default
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 blocks and their tooltips.	name
size([string or fn])	Getter/setter for a node object size accessor, used to compute the areas of the blocks.	value
padding([number])	Getter/setter for the amount of padding between adjacent blocks, in px.	2.5
color([string or fn])	Getter/setter for a node object color accessor, used to color the blocks.	grey
nodeClassName([string or fn])	Getter/setter for a node object classname accessor. Determines the CSS class(es) to apply to each block node.
minBlockArea([number])	Getter/setter for the minimum area of a block (in square px) required for it to be rendered in the DOM.	100
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 blocks. 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 blocks 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 block'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 block'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 the 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 the 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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