Adding/Removing labels of line points with update - d3.js

Question

I'm using a range slider to add/remove points from a line which follows an histogram.
Without updating the data, the text labels are shown correctly, when I update the values with the slider I'd like that the text-labels follow the line, so they show the values of the points correctly.
The update for the line works, but I am not able to update the text labels correctly.
Right now the laberls are plotted like so outside of the on-change function:
var SerifText = svg.append("g")
.attr("id", "serif-labels")
.selectAll("text")
.data(histogSerif)
.enter()
.append("text")
.text(function (d) { return d.y >= 1 ? d.y : null; })
.attr("text-anchor", "middle")
.attr("font-size", 10 + "px")
.attr("fill", "#f0027f")
.attr("x", function (d) { return x(d.x)})
.attr("y", function (d) { return y(d.y) - padding; })
.attr("visibility", "hidden"); //the hidden & visible is managed by an external checkbox
And then on the on-change function I put this code:
SerifText.selectAll("text").remove();
/* If I do SerifText.remove() it does remove the text but also the group of course,
but as it is it doesn't work */
SerifText.selectAll("text")
.data(histogSerif)
.enter()
.append("text")
.text(function (d) { return d.y >= 1 ? d.y : null; })
.attr("text-anchor", "middle")
.attr("font-size", 10 + "px")
.attr("fill", "#f0027f")
.attr("x", function (d) { return x(d.x)})
.attr("y", function (d) { return y(d.y) - padding; });
But this doesn't work unfortunately. I'd like also to be able to retain the manage of the visible/hidden status by the external checkbox if possible.
Full code is here

Answer 1

Instead of trying to save a reference to the labels that you are going to delete, and then re-selecting them, how about just use a variable that references the SerifText element selection, e.g.:
var SerifTextGroup = svg.append("g")
.attr("id", "serif-labels");
SerifTextGroup.selectAll("text")
.data(histogSerif)
.enter()
//... and so on
Then the rest of your code should work as written (just change SerifText to SerifTextGroup).