SVGTextContentElement

{{APIRef("SVG")}}

The SVGTextContentElement interface is implemented by elements that support rendering child text content. It is inherited by various text-related interfaces, such as {{domxref("SVGTextElement")}}, {{domxref("SVGTSpanElement")}}, and {{domxref("SVGTextPathElement")}}.

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Instance properties

This interface also inherits properties from its parent, {{domxref("SVGGraphicsElement")}}.

• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.textLength")}} {{ReadOnlyInline}}
  • : An {{domxref("SVGAnimatedLength")}} reflecting the {{SVGAttr("textLength")}} attribute of the given element.
• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.lengthAdjust")}} {{ReadOnlyInline}}
  • : An {{domxref("SVGAnimatedEnumeration")}} reflecting the {{SVGAttr("lengthAdjust")}} attribute of the given element. The numeric type values represent one of the LENGTHADJUST_* constant values.

Instance methods

This interface also inherits methods from its parent, {{domxref("SVGGraphicsElement")}}.

• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.getNumberOfChars()")}}
  • : Returns a long representing the total number of addressable characters available for rendering within the current element, regardless of whether they will be rendered.
• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.getComputedTextLength()")}}
  • : Returns a float representing the computed length for the text within the element.
• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.getSubStringLength()")}}
  • : Returns a float representing the computed length of the formatted text advance distance for a substring of text within the element. Note that this method only accounts for the widths of the glyphs in the substring and any extra spacing inserted by the CSS 'letter-spacing' and 'word-spacing' properties. Visual spacing adjustments made by the 'x' attribute is ignored.
• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.getStartPositionOfChar()")}}
  • : Returns a {{domxref("DOMPoint")}} representing the position of a typographic character after text layout has been performed.
• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.getEndPositionOfChar()")}}
  • : Returns a {{domxref("DOMPoint")}} representing the trailing position of a typographic character after text layout has been performed.
• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.getExtentOfChar()")}}
  • : Returns a {{domxref("DOMRect")}} representing the computed tight bounding box of the glyph cell that corresponds to a given typographic character.
• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.getRotationOfChar()")}}
  • : Returns a float representing the rotation of typographic character.
• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.getCharNumAtPosition()")}}
  • : Returns a long representing the character which caused a text glyph to be rendered at a given position in the coordinate system. Because the relationship between characters and glyphs is not one-to-one, only the first character of the relevant typographic character is returned.
• {{domxref("SVGTextContentElement.selectSubString()")}} {{deprecated_inline}}
  • : Selects text within the element.

Static properties

• LENGTHADJUST_UNKNOWN (0)
  • : The type is not one of predefined types. It is invalid to attempt to define a new value of this type or to attempt to switch an existing value to this type.
• LENGTHADJUST_SPACING (1)
  • : Corresponds to the value spacing.
• LENGTHADJUST_SPACINGANDGLYPHS (2)
  • : Corresponds to the value spacingAndGlyphs.

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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