How to make nodes align from top when they are in parallel paths

[xiaopow]

I managed to use Dagre to auto distribute the nodes, but when there is a path split, the nodes align to the bottom rather to the top. In the screenshot below, I want the "Path B" node to be ranked the same as "Path A". How can I achieve this?

My settings are

{
  rankdir: 'TB',
  ranker: 'network-simplex',
  marginx: 30,
  marginy: 30,
},

[brunaschneiders]

Hi, have you made any progress on this issue?

[collingreen]

The only thing I've found that sort of works for this (but can cause other issues depending on the order of the edges) is adding the nodes at the top of the branch to the same parent.

Here is an example doing that in some places (not mine but it is how I found this): https://codesandbox.io/s/10l27o7kn4?file=/src/index.js

And a modified version with the top ones explicitly with a new parent (and the issues it can cause): https://codesandbox.io/s/dagre-d3-graph-forked-ylr15?file=/src/index.js

And a third showing how you can tweak the edge order to get different results: https://codesandbox.io/s/dagre-d3-graph-forked-59mxs?file=/src/index.js

[ZhengYuTay]

Faced similar issue where the intention is to aligned up node level from top to bottom or either left to right.

[junyuan]

I did a trick to achieve this:

1. Change the direction to BT,
2. Revert the src, dst of each connections.

[NollieLeo]

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