Oct
22
jQuery Plugin Displays HTML Tables as Charts
Filed Under jQuery
The Filament Group has created a plugin for the jQuery JavaScript Framework that will render HTML table data as bar, line or area charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element. The plugin takes the headache and custom coding out of visualizing tabular data as graphic charts. The data is also 100% accessible for non-graphical user agents as well since the data already exists in the page as an HTML table.
To accommodate the fact that no version of Internet Explorer currently supports the Canvas element, the developers have implemented a library maintained by Google that translates canvas scripting into VML . The IE-compatibility fix can be implemented by adding a conditional comment to the web page containing the table data.
To read the full article and download the plugin, visit www.filamentgroup.com
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