Implementing drag behavior
Another common behavior in interactive visualization that we will cover in this chapter is drag. Drag is useful to provide capabilities in visualization allowing graphical rearrangement or even user input through force, which we will discuss in the next chapter. In this recipe we will explore how drag behavior is supported in D3.
Getting ready
Open your local copy of the following file in your web browser:
https://github.com/NickQiZhu/d3-cookbook/blob/master/src/chapter10/drag.html.
How to do it...
Here, we will produce four circles that can be dragged using D3 drag behavior support and additionally with SVG boundary detection while dragging. Now, let's see how to implement this in code:
<script type="text/javascript"> var ...
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