2016-02-09T20-40-24-05-00-append-data-and-display.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title></title>
</head>
<body>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.14/d3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <script>
    d3.selectAll("div").data([1,5,11,3]).text(function(i) { return i; });
  </script>
</body>
</html>

A more visual example of the previous one with numbers actually on the div