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Learn D3.js
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Learn D3.js

by Helder Da Rocha
May 2019
Beginner to intermediate
650 pages
14h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Removing extra elements

It's almost done, but we still have one problem. The extra elements don't go away. Try clicking on Earth or Mars, or look at the following screenshot to see what happens! We have to deal with the exit selection:

Extra elements not removed (Mars's moons were updated, but Neptune's moons still appear). Code: StepByStep/12-enter-append-merge.html

The exit selection contains elements every time you change to a view that displays fewer moons than the previous ones (the size of the selection is larger than the dataset). These elements need to be removed. All you have to do is to add the following code to the draw() function: ...

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