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Horizontal Bar Graph in jQuery

Here's a way to very clean and concise way to add a bar graph to some data. You may want to present this data in HTML in a clean manner, but allowing it to look nice. That's where the Horizontal Bar Graph can help you out. The major benefit of this is that you can give a nice presentation without sacraficing your SEO benefits of sharing the data.

Use the links above to download or learn more about this plug-in. I'd appreciate any feedback or comments.

Firefox
47.0
IE8
13.3
IE7
13.3
IE6
11.1
Chrome
8.5
Safari
3.8
Opera
2.3

Below is the HTML, CSS and JavaScript that is required to generate the bar graph above.

HTML for this Horizontal Bar Graph

<dl class="browser-data" title="Browser statistics as of November 2009">
  <dt>Firefox</dt><dd>47.0</dd>
  <dt>IE8</dt><dd>13.3</dd>
  <dt>IE7</dt><dd>13.3</dd>
  <dt>IE6</dt><dd>11.1</dd>
  <dt>Chrome</dt><dd>8.5</dd>
  <dt>Safari</dt><dd>3.8</dd>
  <dt>Opera</dt><dd>2.3</dd>
</dl>

Custom CSS For this Graph

  .hbg-bar { padding-left: 5px; background-color: #369; color: #fff; font-weight: bold; }
  .hbg-title { text-align: center; font-weight: bold; }

JavaScript For this Graph

  $(".browser-data").horizontalBarGraph({interval: 0.1});

There are more bar graph demos if you want to see what else this plug-in can do.