SVGTextPositioningElement: y 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 y read-only property of the SVGTextPositioningElement interface describes the y-axis coordinate of the SVGTextElement, SVGTSpanElement, or SVGTRefElement as an SVGAnimatedLengthList. It reflects the y attribute's vertical position of the individual text glyphs in the user coordinate system.

The attribute value is a list of <length>, <percentage>, or <number>. The numeric values in the SVGAnimatedLengthList.baseVal reflect the y-coordinates in the user coordinate system.

Value

An SVGAnimatedLengthList.

Examples

Given the following SVG:

html
<svg viewBox="0 0 200 200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text x="10" y="20">Hello</text>
  <text x="50" y="50">World</text>
</svg>

We can access the computed values of the y attributes:

js
const texts = document.querySelectorAll("text");

console.log(texts[0].y.baseVal[0].value); // output: 20
console.log(texts[1].y.baseVal[0].value); // output: 50

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGTextPositioningElement__y

Browser compatibility

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See also