SVGMarkerElement: orientAngle property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

The orientAngle read-only property of the SVGMarkerElement interface returns an SVGAnimatedAngle object containing the angle of the orient attribute.

Value

An SVGAnimatedAngle object. The baseVal property of this object returns an SVGAngle, the value of which returns the angle.

Examples

The orientAngle property returns an SVGAnimatedAngle which contains an SVGAngle with the angle set by the orient attribute as a number representing the number of degrees the marker is turned.

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"
      markerWidth="6"
      markerHeight="6"
      orient=".5turn">
      <path d="M 0 0 L 10 5 L 0 10 z" />
    </marker>
  </defs>
</svg>

let marker = document.getElementById("arrow");
console.log(marker.orientAngle.baseVal.value); // 180 as .5turn is 180deg.

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # __svg__SVGMarkerElement__orientAngle

Browser compatibility

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