Text

Text mark displays each data item as text.

{
  "data": {
    "values": [
      { "x": 1, "text": "Hello" },
      { "x": 2, "text": "world!" }
    ]
  },
  "mark": "text",
  "encoding": {
    "x": { "field": "x", "type": "ordinal" },
    "color": { "field": "x", "type": "nominal" },
    "text": { "field": "text", "type": "nominal" },
    "size": { "value": 100 }
  }
}

Channels

In addition to standard position channels and color and opacity channels, point mark has the following channels:

text

Type: String

The text to display. The format of numeric data can be customized by setting a format specifier to channel definition's format property.

Default value: ""

size

Type: Number

The font size in pixels.

Default value: 11

angle

Type: Number

The rotation angle in degrees.

Default value: 0

Properties

font

Type: String

The font typeface. GenomeSpy uses SDF versions of Google Fonts. Check their availability at the A-Frame Fonts repository. The system fonts are not supported.

Default value: "Lato"

fontWeight

Type: String | Number

The font weight. The following strings and numbers are valid values: "thin" (100), "light" (300), "regular" (400), "normal" (400), "medium" (500), "bold" (700), "black" (900)

Default value: "regular"

fontStyle

Type: String

The font style. Valid values: "normal" and "italic".

Default value: "normal"

align

Type: String

The horizontal alignment of the text. One of "left", "center", or "right".

Default value: "left"

baseline

Type: String

The vertical alignment of the text. One of "top", "middle", "bottom".

Default value: "bottom"

dX

Type: Number

Offset of the x coordinate in pixels. The offset is applied after the viewport scaling and translation.

Default value: 0

dY

Type: Number

Offset of the x coordinate in pixels. The offset is applied after the viewport scaling and translation.

Default value: 0

Examples

Ranged text

The x2 and y2 channels allow for positioning the text inside a segment. The text is either squeezed (default) or hidden if it does not fit in the segment. The squeeze property controls the behavior.

The example below has two layers: gray rectangles at the bottom and ranged text on the top. Try to zoom and pan to see how they behave!

{
  "data": {
    "values": ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G"]
  },
  "transform": [
    { "type": "formula", "expr": "round(random() * 100)", "as": "a" },
    { "type": "formula", "expr": "datum.a + round(random() * 60)", "as": "b" }
  ],
  "encoding": {
    "x": { "field": "a", "type": "quantitative", "scale": { "zoom": true } },
    "x2": { "field": "b" },
    "y": {
      "field": "data",
      "type": "nominal",
      "scale": {
        "padding": 0.3
      }
    }
  },
  "layer": [
    {
      "mark": "rect",
      "encoding": { "color": { "value": "#eaeaea" } }
    },
    {
      "mark": {
        "type": "text",
        "align": "center",
        "baseline": "middle",
        "paddingX": 5
      },
      "encoding": {
        "text": {
          "expr": "'Hello ' + floor(datum.a)",
          "type": "ordinal"
        },
        "size": { "value": 12 }
      }
    }
  ]
}