Animated Skills Diagram with Raphaël

In this tutorial we will show you how to create a diagram using Raphaël – a small JavaScript library that is great for working with vector graphics. The idea is […]

In this tutorial we will show you how to create a diagram using Raphaël – a small JavaScript library that is great for working with vector graphics. The idea is very simple: we will draw some arcs using mathematical functions and we’ll be displaying a skill percentage in a main circle when we hover over those arcs.
Let’s start with the markup.

The Markup

The HTML structure is going to consist of a main container with the class ‘get’. This container stores all data that we need to draw the arcs. Then we create a new div element with the id ‘diagram’ which will be the container for the arcs:

<div id="diagram"></div>
<div class="get">
	<div class="arc">
		<span class="text">jQuery</span>
		<input type="hidden" class="percent" value="95" />
		<input type="hidden" class="color" value="#97BE0D" />
	</div>
	<div class="arc">

		<span class="text">CSS3</span>
		<input type="hidden" class="percent" value="90" />
		<input type="hidden" class="color" value="#D84F5F" />
	</div>
	<div class="arc">
		<span class="text">HTML5</span>
		<input type="hidden" class="percent" value="80" />
		<input type="hidden" class="color" value="#88B8E6" />

	</div>
	<div class="arc">
		<span class="text">PHP</span>
		<input type="hidden" class="percent" value="53" />
		<input type="hidden" class="color" value="#BEDBE9" />
	</div>
	<div class="arc">
		<span class="text">MySQL</span>
		<input type="hidden" class="percent" value="45" />
		<input type="hidden" class="color" value="#EDEBEE" />
	</div>
</div>

The CSS

In the CSS we will only do two things: hide the elements with the class ‘get’ and set the width and height of the div with the id ‘diagram’:

.get {
	display:none;
}

#diagram {
	float:left;
	width:600px;
	height:600px;
}

The JavaScript

The main idea is to first create a new Raphael object (variable ‘r’) and draw our first circle with a radius that we specify in ‘rad’.
Then we create a new circle in the Raphael object. We center the circle (x: 300px and y: 300px) and we add some text to it.

var o = {
	init: function(){
		this.diagram();	
	},
	random: function(l, u){
		return Math.floor((Math.random()*(u-l+1))+l);
	},
	diagram: function(){
		var r = Raphael('diagram', 600, 600),
			rad = 73;

		r.circle(300, 300, 85).attr({ stroke: 'none', fill: '#193340' });

		var title = r.text(300, 300, 'Skills').attr({
			font: '20px Arial',
			fill: '#fff'
		}).toFront();

	}
}

Now, let’s go one step further.
We’ll extend the Raphael object with some custom attributes:

  • alpha – angle of the arc
  • random – random number from the specified range
  • sx, sy – start drawing from this point
  • x, y – end drawing at this point
  • path
var o = {
	init: function(){
		this.diagram();	
	},
	random: function(l, u){
		return Math.floor((Math.random()*(u-l+1))+l);
	},
	diagram: function(){
		var r = Raphael('diagram', 600, 600),
			rad = 73;

		r.circle(300, 300, 85).attr({ stroke: 'none', fill: '#193340' });

		var title = r.text(300, 300, 'Skills').attr({
			font: '20px Arial',
			fill: '#fff'
		}).toFront();

		r.customAttributes.arc = function(value, color, rad){
			var v = 3.6*value,
				alpha = v == 360 ? 359.99 : v,
				random = o.random(91, 240),
				a = (random-alpha) * Math.PI/180,
				b = random * Math.PI/180,
				sx = 300 + rad * Math.cos(b),
				sy = 300 - rad * Math.sin(b),
				x = 300 + rad * Math.cos(a),
				y = 300 - rad * Math.sin(a),
				path = [['M', sx, sy], ['A', rad, rad, 0, +(alpha > 180), 1, x, y]];
			return { path: path, stroke: color }
		}

		$('.get').find('.arc').each(function(i){
			var t = $(this), 
				color = t.find('.color').val(),
				value = t.find('.percent').val(),
				text = t.find('.text').text();

			rad += 30;	
			var z = r.path().attr({ arc: [value, color, rad], 'stroke-width': 26 });

			z.mouseover(function(){
                this.animate({ 'stroke-width': 50, opacity: .75 }, 1000, 'elastic');
                if(Raphael.type != 'VML') //solves IE problem
					this.toFront();
				title.animate({ opacity: 0 }, 500, '>', function(){
					this.attr({ text: text + 'n' + value + '%' }).animate({ opacity: 1 }, 500, '<');
				});
            }).mouseout(function(){
				this.animate({ 'stroke-width': 26, opacity: 1 }, 1000, 'elastic');
            });
		});
	}
}

Then we’ll retrieve all the data needed, such as the percentage value, the color of the arc and the text. We increase the radius value for each arc and finally create a new arc path.
In the last step we are adding some animations on hover. When the mouse will be over the arc the title (which is placed in the main circle) is changing. Also, we’ll make the arc a little bit bigger.

Conclusion

In today’s tutorial you’ve learned some first steps on how to use Raphaël. It is a powerful library and you can do a lot of great stuff with it. Visit the Raphaël website for more examples.

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Marcin Dziewulski

Marcin is an experienced and creative web developer from Poland. He loves putting new ideas into practice and is addicted to jQuery and CSS. Read his blog about web development here: http://www.jscraft.net.

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  1. nice one, will use this in new project I’m working on…

  2. Wow! That’s pretty slick! Now just to find a need for something like that 😉

  3. Wow, very nice effect! Thanx for share! 😉

    But it is not possible to download. This messege is showed:

    Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access /Tutorials/AnimatedSkillsDiagram/AnimatedSkillsDiagram.zip on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

  4. Hi Daniel,
    it’s not allowed to directly access the ZIP file, you actually need to download it from this page. Please try it and let me know if there is still the same problem. Cheers, ML

  5. Hi Mary,

    Thanks for your response. Actually, I used the button from this same page and couldn’t get it. It’s istill heapens. But I discover that is a browser’s problem, couse when I use another I had success. Yupi! Cheers! DB.
    😉

  6. Hi Daniel, ok cool thanks, can you tell me which browser causes that problem? Cheers, ML

  7. Using Firefox 3.6.13 this problem heapens. Then, switching to Safari 5.0.5 I could download.

    Cheers, DB.

  8. Very nice and I have implemented in my site.
    However in IE9 not working as expected.
    After hover the arcs remain expanded.

  9. Hello Paulo,
    please download the script again. Maybe you still had the older version that didn’t have the fix. Let me know if it worked, cheers, ML

  10. Hi Mary Lou, tried but no success.
    Then again the user can still change the value of the arcs.
    They simply overlay on each other.

  11. Really Amazing…i Would love to Add on my Resume Page 🙂

    Thanks Again

  12. Thanks for the great script,i must admit Codrops is one of the most inspiring sites on the web.What i want to know is there any way of putting links inside of an arc,because i would like to use this as some kind of menu.
    I tried something with anchors and onclick events,but can’t figure it out.

  13. Hey Mary,
    Great Tut indeed, I’ve installed it and it’s working fine on all browsers except IE9 I think it’s the same problem that happens with “Paulo Carvalho”.

    I hope that u could give us a fix code if possible. if not u still awesome 😉

  14. Does anyone know if this works in IE (other than IE9+)? I’m on Mac, but tested the demo link in Adobe Browser Labs and the circular bars appeared offset rather than centered.

  15. You guys have some of the most fantastic tutorials on the web. I love all of them. Thank you. <3

  16. Hey guys I already test on IE9 (win 7)
    and I found one mistake.
    On mouseout some wrong happened.
    it was supposed to the mouseout effect happen, but isn’t working.
    When you have a free time check out it.

  17. Is there a way to not use percentages? Just use numbers relative to one another? I’m not a js expert but I couldn’t find what is making the value a percentage. Unless the class of percentage is doing more than just getting called in init.js.

  18. Hi! This is a great tutorial and thanks for that.

    I found what’s wrong with IE9 and Opera. I don’t know exactly why but these lines:

    if(Raphael.type != ‘VML’) //solves IE problem
    this.toFront();

    don’t work properly. Just remove them and it will fix the problem.

  19. is there any way to make this just loop. another words. the same action that happens when you scroll over it. but have each one have that action for 1 second. coming from the inside and from the outside.

    a trippy effect if can be done. i could not figure it out

  20. Love this effect. Went through the trouble of figuring out how to add more layers, style the graph, but when I tried to implement it into my live site I think I am getting some conflicts between rafael and mootools 🙁

    Oh well!

    Thanks for posting!

  21. I love Raphael. And nice tutorial, already implemented at my site! 🙂 Greetz, Marcell