Build a CSS Bar Chart
Build a CSS Bar Chart
Not every visualization needs a heavy charting library. For many dashboards, a few styled divs make a crisp, fast-loading bar chart that's fully under your control.
In this lesson you'll build a vertical bar chart from plain HTML and Tailwind. Each bar is just a colored div with a height that maps to its value, and a legend ties the colors to their meaning.
As an analyst, this technique is gold: you can drop a clean chart into any report without dependencies, and you understand exactly how every pixel maps to your data. Let's draw some bars.
Instructions
Add an h1 chart title "Quarterly Revenue" so viewers know what the bars represent.
Hint: Use: `<h1 class="text-3xl font-bold mb-2">Quarterly Revenue</h1>`.
Where does this go?
<!-- Build your bar chart visualization here -->Write it on line 11 — under that comment, after the code you already added.
Create the chart plot area as a flex row whose bars sit on a baseline using items-end.
Add colored bars as divs with an inline height style, using the bg-purple-500 color.
Add a legend that explains the colors, including the label "Record quarter".
Your Code
Describe what you want to build for this step and I'll write the code — then click Apply to drop it into your editor. This step: Add an h1 chart title "Quarterly Revenue" so viewers know what the bars represent.