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I have a scatterplot I've build using d3. I've gotten the tooltips to work just fine when testing in-browser, but when built the same d3 visualization in power bi, but I can't seem to get the tooltips to render when mousing over a point? Has anyone else had this issue, or has this been documented with power bi elsewhere? Thanks in advance. The example I built this off from is here:
https://www.d3-graph-gallery.com/graph/scatter_basic.html
var margin = {top: 10, right: 30, bottom: 30, left: 80},
width = pbi.width - margin.left - margin.right,
height = pbi.height - margin.top - margin.bottom;
// ALTER: Replaced the d3.tsv function with the pbi variant: pbi.dsv
pbi.dsv(function(letters) {
var svg = d3.select("#chart")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
// Add the tooltip container to the vis container
// it's invisible and its position/contents are defined during mouseover
var tooltip = d3.select("#chart").append("div")
.attr("class", "tooltip")
.style("opacity", 0);
var x = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, 4000])
.range([0, width]);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, 500000])
.range([height, 0]);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(d3.svg.axis().scale(x).orient("bottom"));
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(d3.svg.axis().scale(y).orient("left"));
svg.append('g')
.selectAll("dot")
.data(letters)
.enter()
.append("circle")
.attr("cx", function (d) { return x(d.grlivarea); } )
.attr("cy", function (d) { return y(d.saleprice); } )
.attr("r", 1.5)
.style("fill", "#69b3a2")
.on("mouseover", function(data) {
d3.select(this).attr("r", 5)
d3.select(this).style("stroke", "000000")
d3.select(this).style("stroke-width", "2px")
d3.select('.tooltip')
tooltip.transition()
.duration(200)
.style("opacity", .8);
tooltip.html("tooltip!")
})
.on("mouseout", function(data) {
d3.select(this).attr("r", 1.5)
d3.select(this).style("stroke", "000000")
d3.select(this).style("stroke-width", "0px")
})
});
body {
font: 10px sans-serif;
}
.axis path,
.axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.tooltip {
word-wrap: normal;
position: absolute;
text-align: center;
min-height: 20px;
min-width: 30px;
padding: 2px;
font: 14px;
color: #fff;
background-color: rgba(51,51,51,.85);
border: solid thin black;
}
.tooltip.show {
opacity: 0.9;
}
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