; вещи просто не работают одинаково между двумя. Если бы я знал «лучший» способ делать то, что вы ищете, поверьте мне, я бы предложил это сейчас.

ЦИЯ:

каждыйnode должен иметь соответствующий флаг, это не так.

КОД:

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#results {
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    margin: auto;
    width: 1200px;
    padding: 40px;
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    <body>
        <div class="body">
            <div class="container-fluid">
                <h1 class="text-center title">Countries linked by Border</h1>
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                    <div id="results"></div>
                    <div id="flags"></div>
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            </div>
        </div>
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       // Excelent D3 V4 tutorial: http://www.puzzlr.org/force-graphs-with-d3/
       
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                .on("mouseover", function(d) {		
                div.transition()		
                    .duration(200)		
                    .style("opacity", .9);		
                div	.html(d.country)	
                    .style("left", (d3.event.pageX - 7) + "px")		
                    .style("top", (d3.event.pageY - 30) + "px");	
                })					
                .on("mouseout", function(d) {		
                div.transition()		
                    .duration(500)		
                    .style("opacity", 0);	
                }).call(d3.drag()
                .on('start', dragStarted)
                .on('drag', dragged)
                .on('end', dragEnded));

            const link_force = d3.forceLink(links)

            simulation.force("links", link_force)

            simulation.on("tick", tickActions);

            function tickActions() {
              node
                .attr("transform", function(d) {
                  return "translate(" + d.x + "," + d.y + ")"
                });

              link
                .attr("x1", function(d) {
                  return d.source.x;
                })
                .attr("y1", function(d) {
                  return d.source.y;
                })
                .attr("x2", function(d) {
                  return d.target.x;
                })
                .attr("y2", function(d) {
                  return d.target.y;
                });
            }
        
            function dragStarted(d) {
                if (!d3.event.active) sim.alphaTarget(0.3).restart();
                d.fx = d.x;
                d.fy = d.y;
            }

            function dragged(d) {
                d.fx = d3.event.x;
                d.fy = d3.event.y;
            }

            function dragEnded(d) {
                if (!d3.event.active) sim.alphaTarget(0);
                d.fx = null;
                d.fy = null;
            }

        });
  </script>

</html>

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