What does it take for .ticks() to work?

Question

.ticks() doesn\'t seem to be working on my bar chart. Can somebody take a look?

Here\'s the fiddle. I set ticks on the x-axis near the beginning of the object:

Answer 1

A css-way to do this is to hide the nth axis elements you do not want. The d3 ticks, to me, is just perpetually annoying.

.tick:nth-of-type(6) > text {
    display: none;
  }
  .tick:nth-of-type(7) > text {
    display: none;
  }
  .tick:nth-of-type(8) > text {
    display: none;
  }