I guess it would depend on the style of chart, but a slider to scroll the data history being displayed in the chart might mean a web app and not a web page. A web app is client-side javascript and would be used there to render the chart on the fly. The alternative there is to have a stack of PNGs or GIFs (they are charts and those are the formats for charts) and then use CSS in some way to descend or ascend through that stack. Both options are rather advanced, but given that I consider javascript a pox, especially client-side, I'd go for the CSS approach. Or a third option if you only want to hover over data points on the chart would be to generate an image map and treat that with some CSS.If I can get the hang of it, a couple of numerical readouts with simple charting, a slider to scroll the data history displayed in the chart, maybe some background graphics just for fun.
Background graphics are easy to and done with CSS, specifically the background property. It can be tied to the BODY for the full page or to subelements for a changing background. If you find pages that do it the way you'd like, you can look at them in the web browser by pressing ctrl-shift-i and clicking on the resulting CSS tab or rummaging around in the document (assuming a document and not a web app) with ctrl-u.
For my own sensors, I've chosen some static time series line charts accompanied by short or long tables of data. For some of the charts, I have secondary charts with a shorter time series to accompany the main chart. Some tables are long so I have set the position property for all of the THEAD elements to 'sticky' so that the table headings are as visible down to the bottom row when scrolling the page.
Statistics: Posted by tpyo kingg — Tue Sep 09, 2025 4:17 am