SVGSymbolElement: viewBox property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The viewBox read-only property of the SVGSymbolElement interface reflects the viewBox attribute of the given <symbol> element.

Value

An SVGAnimatedRect object.

Examples

Accessing the `viewBox` Property

html

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="200" height="200">
  <defs>
    <symbol id="exampleSymbol" viewBox="0 0 100 100">
      <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="50" fill="blue" />
    </symbol>
  </defs>
  <use href="#exampleSymbol" x="50" y="50" width="100" height="100" />
</svg>

const symbolElement = document.getElementById("exampleSymbol");

// Access the viewBox property
const viewBox = symbolElement.viewBox.baseVal;

console.log(viewBox.x); // Output: 0
console.log(viewBox.y); // Output: 0
console.log(viewBox.width); // Output: 100
console.log(viewBox.height); // Output: 100