jQuery Bullet Graph

A jQuery plugin, turning a html select element into a bullet graph slider. Bullet graphs, developed by Stephen Few, feature a single primary measure, a comparative measure. These measures are displayed in the context of qualitative and quantitative measures. Additionally the qualitative ranges are displayed as varying intensities of a single hue to make them discernible. This plugin creates a pure css based bullet graph and makes the primary measure adjustable by incorporating a jQuery UI slider element. The selected slider value corresponds to the selected option in the html select element.

Usage

// bulletgraph with custom ranges & range labels
$('select#metric2').bulletGraph({
  width: 200,
  height: 20,
  ranges: ['0%', '20%', '70%', '100%'],
  rangesLabels: ['low', 'medium', 'high'],
  sliderOptions: {
    disabled: true
  }
});

for more usage and customization, please have a look at the source & examples code

Options

• width - of bulletgraph in pixel
• height - of bulletgrpah in pixel
• tickHeight - height of top/bottom ticks for labels and steps
• ranges - array of (qualitative) range borders in % - e.g. ['0%', '50%', '75%', '100%']
• rangeLabels - array of (qualitative) labels for ranges (size=rangesLabels-1) - e.g. ['poor', 'satisfactory', 'good']
• ticks - number of ticks to show at the bottom, usually the number of values in select element
• nTick - reduce number of ticks to show only every n-th tick
• steps - steps for jQuery UI slider
• showLabels - show quantitative labels and ticks on top
• showTicks - show ticks and qualitative labels at the bottom
• sliderOptions - options for the jQuery UI slider

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