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SVGMarkerElement: viewBox property

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{{APIRef("SVG")}}

The viewBox read-only property of the {{domxref("SVGMarkerElement")}} interface returns an {{domxref("SVGAnimatedRect")}} object which contains the values set by the {{SVGattr("viewBox")}} attribute on the {{SVGElement("marker")}}.

Value

An {{domxref("SVGAnimatedRect")}} object. The baseVal property of this object returns an {{domxref("SVGRect")}} object, from which can be returned the x and y co-ordinates, plus the width and height of the {{SVGElement("marker")}} {{SVGattr("viewBox")}} attribute.

Examples

This example demonstrates how to return the value of the width set for the {{SVGattr("viewBox")}} attribute of {{SVGElement("marker")}}.

html
<svg id="svg" viewBox="0 0 100 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <defs>
    <marker
      id="arrow"
      viewBox="0 0 10 10"
      refX="5"
      refY="5"
      preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet"
      markerWidth="6"
      markerHeight="6"
      orient="auto-start-reverse">
      <path d="M 0 0 L 10 5 L 0 10 z" />
    </marker>
  </defs>
</svg>
js
const marker = document.getElementById("arrow");
console.log(marker.viewBox.baseVal.width); // 10

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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