Introduction

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JSXGraph is a browser based library for interactive geometry, function plotting, graphs, and data visualization. It is completely written in JavaScript and everybody with a little experience with JavaScript shouldn't have problems using JSXGraph. Thanks to the dynamics of JavaScript JSXGraph is also very easy to extend and thanks to AJAX many other softwarepackages can be integrated.

If you have any question about JSXGraph or this documentation feel free to contact us.

Embed JSXGraph in a webpage

You need the following files:

You can either download these files and use the local copy or you can use the online version.

Usage of a local copy

If you want to include a local copy of JSXGraph in your HTML file then you have to write the following lines into the document head:

<head>
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="jsxgraph.css" />
 <script type="text/javascript" src="jsxgraphcore.js"></script>
</head>

Usage of the online copy

If you want to include the online of JSXGraph in your HTML file then you have to write the following lines into the document head:

<head>
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/distrib/jsxgraph.css" />
 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/distrib/jsxgraphcore.js"></script>
</head>


Include a drawing panel into the HTML

General creation of a JSXGraph board

Before anything can be drawn, you'll have to create a board JSXGraph can draw on. To create a board we need a HTML element - usually a div-element is taken - with an ID attribute. Using this ID, we declare this element to be a drawing panel of JSXGraph:

var board = JXG.JSXGraph.initBoard('jxgbox', {boundingbox: [-5, 10, 5, -2], axis:true});

The bounding box determines the portion of the plane that is visible to the user. In the above example the horizontal and vertical viewport both go from -2 to 2. The syntax of this option is pretty easy to understand: It takes an array with 4 numbers defining the most left, top, right, bottom point available on screen in user coordinates. The axis option just draws a standard x- and y-axis on the board and is used to visualize the bounding box:

Various options to affect the initialisation of the board

Here are the other options explained together with the already mentioned in a small table:

Option Type Default value Explanation
boundingbox Array [-5, 5, 5, -5] The viewport of the board.
axis bool false If true, default axes are drawn on the board. To draw axes with special options set this to false and create them manually. See also Ticks.
grid bool false If true, a grid is drawn on the board.
showNavigation bool true If false, removes navigation menu from board.
showCopyright bool true If false, removes copyright message from board.
zoomfactor positive float 1.0 Sets zoom factor on the board.
zoomX positive float 1.0 Sets zoom factor in horizontal direction. The final zoom factor in this direction is this value multiplied with zoomfactor.
zoomY positive float 1.0 Sets zoom factor in vertical direction. The final zoom factor in this direction is this value multiplied with zoomfactor.