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 January 2020.

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>
js
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

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGFitToViewBox__viewBox

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
viewBox

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Full support
Full support

See also