I know late to answer this question. I changed the @heshjse code for version D3 4. When I tried the above code with d3 v3, it works fine. But we had a restriction on the use of version 4, I had a problem with some changes in d3 v4. Therefore adding code that worked for me. I hope this helps.
This should work fine for the Json format in d3 v4.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> <meta charset="utf-8" /> </head> <body> <div id="Dash"></div> </body> </html> <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function () { drawStackChart(); }); //Draw Stack Chart var marginStackChart = { top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 40 }, widthStackChart = 500 - marginStackChart.left - marginStackChart.right, heightStackChart = 300 - marginStackChart.top - marginStackChart.bottom; var xStackChart = d3.scaleBand() .range([0, widthStackChart]) .padding(0.1); var yStackChart = d3.scaleLinear() .range([heightStackChart, 0]); var colorStackChart = d3.scaleOrdinal(["#98abc5", "#8a89a6", "#7b6888", "#6b486b", "#a05d56", "#d0743c", "#ff8c00"]) var canvasStackChart = d3.select("#Dash").append("svg") .attr("width", widthStackChart + marginStackChart.left + marginStackChart.right) .attr("height", heightStackChart + marginStackChart.top + marginStackChart.bottom) .append("g") .attr("transform", "translate(" + marginStackChart.left + "," + marginStackChart.top + ")"); function drawStackChart() { var data = [ { "Year": "2012", "Category1": "20", "Category2": "5", "Category3": "5", "Category4": "5", "Category5": "5", "Category6": "5", "Category7": "5", "Category8": "5", "Category9": "5" }, { "Year": "2013", "Category1": "30", "Category2": "10", "Category3": "10", "Category4": "10", "Category5": "10", "Category6": "10", "Category7": "10", "Category8": "10", "Category9": "10" }, { "Year": "2014", "Category1": "35", "Category2": "15", "Category3": "15", "Category4": "15", "Category5": "15", "Category6": "15", "Category7": "15", "Category8": "15", "Category9": "15" }, { "Year": "2015", "Category1": "60", "Category2": "20", "Category3": "20", "Category4": "20", "Category5": "20", "Category6": "20", "Category7": "20", "Category8": "20", "Category9": "20" }, { "Year": "2016", "Category1": "70", "Category2": "40", "Category3": "40", "Category4": "40", "Category5": "40", "Category6": "40", "Category7": "40", "Category8": "40", "Category9": "40" } ]; colorStackChart.domain(d3.keys(data[0]).filter(function (key) { return key !== "Year"; })); data.forEach(function (d) { var y0 = 0; d.ages = colorStackChart.domain().map(function (name) { return { name: name, y0: y0, y1: y0 += +d[name] }; }); d.total = d.ages[d.ages.length - 1].y1; }); data.sort(function (a, b) { return b.total - a.total; }); xStackChart.domain(data.map(function (d) { return d.Year; })); yStackChart.domain([0, d3.max(data, function (d) { return d.total; })]); canvasStackChart.append("g") .attr("class", "x axis") .attr("transform", "translate(0," + heightStackChart + ")") .call(d3.axisBottom(xStackChart)); canvasStackChart.append("g") .attr("class", "y axis") .call(d3.axisLeft(yStackChart)) .append("text") .attr("transform", "rotate(-90)") .attr("y", 6) .attr("dy", ".71em") .style("text-anchor", "end") .text("No Of Buildings"); var state = canvasStackChart.selectAll(".Year") .data(data) .enter().append("g") .attr("class", "g") .attr("transform", function (d) { return "translate(" + xStackChart(d.Year) + ",0)"; }); state.selectAll("rect") .data(function (d) { return d.ages; }) .enter().append("rect") .attr("width", xStackChart.bandwidth()) .attr("y", function (d) { return yStackChart(d.y1); }) .attr("height", function (d) { return yStackChart(d.y0) - yStackChart(d.y1); }) .style("fill", function (d) { return colorStackChart(d.name); }); var legend = canvasStackChart.selectAll(".legend") .data(colorStackChart.domain().slice().reverse()) .enter().append("g") .attr("class", "legend") .attr("transform", function (d, i) { return "translate(0," + i * 20 + ")"; }); legend.append("rect") .attr("x", widthStackChart - 18) .attr("width", 18) .attr("height", 18) .style("fill", colorStackChart); legend.append("text") .attr("x", widthStackChart - 24) .attr("y", 9) .attr("dy", ".35em") .style("text-anchor", "end") .text(function (d) { return d; }); } </script>