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Metric – Retro Dial Watches: Where to Buy & What to Look For!

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Okay, so I was messing around with some data visualization stuff the other day, and I stumbled upon this cool idea for a retro-style dial to show, you know, metrics. Think like an old-school speedometer, but for your website’s performance or whatever. I thought, “Hey, that’s neat, I wanna build that!”

Metric - Retro Dial Watches: Where to Buy & What to Look For!

Getting Started: The Basic Idea

First things first, I needed to figure out the basic structure. It’s basically a semicircle, right? With a needle pointing to a value. So, I started with a simple HTML <div> to act as the container.

Then came the fun part – styling! I used CSS to shape that <div> into a semicircle. It’s a bit of a trick with border-radius, you see. You make it a full circle, then hide the bottom half. Boom! Semicircle.

Making it Tick: The Needle

Now, for the needle. I created another <div> inside the first one. This one’s gonna be a skinny rectangle. The tricky part is rotating it. I used CSS transforms for that, specifically the rotate property.

I played around with the rotation angle to see how it looked. It needs to pivot from the center of the semicircle’s base, so you gotta position it just right. Some trial and error there, for sure!

Adding the Scale: Tick Marks and Labels

Of course, a dial needs those little tick marks and number labels, right? I considered a few ways to do this. Could use a bunch of tiny <div> elements, but that felt messy.

Metric - Retro Dial Watches: Where to Buy & What to Look For!

I added some numbers.

Bringing it to Life: Dynamic Updates

The whole point is for this dial to show real data, not just sit there looking pretty. So, I whipped up a little JavaScript. I added a function to the needle, and change the rotation.

And that’s pretty much it! It took some tinkering, especially with the positioning and rotation, but it turned out pretty cool. I can now plug in any metric I want, and the dial will show it in a nice, retro way. It’s a fun little visual element to add to a dashboard or report. Definetly gonna use the trick in my dashboard.

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