d3 autospace overlapping tick labels

Question

Is there a way in d3 to not draw overlapping tick labels? For example, if I have a bar chart, but the bars are only 5 pixels wide and the labels are 10 pixels wide, I end up wit

Answer 1

could you try something mentioned in this thread, specifically this example so that the labels are pushed up/down/out of the way so that they all may be fitted in. This requires using a seperate forces, one for the nodes and another for the labels themselves.