primitiveUnits

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 primitiveUnits attribute specifies the coordinate system for the various length values within the filter primitives and for the attributes that define the filter primitive subregion.

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

Usage notes

Value userSpaceOnUse | objectBoundingBox
Default value userSpaceOnUse
Animatable Yes
userSpaceOnUse

This value indicates that any length values within the filter definitions represent values in the current user coordinate system in place at the time when the <filter> element is referenced (i.e., the user coordinate system for the element referencing the <filter> element via a filter attribute).

objectBoundingBox

This value indicates that any length values within the filter definitions represent fractions or percentages of the bounding box on the referencing element.

Specifications

Specification
Filter Effects Module Level 1
# element-attrdef-filter-primitiveunits

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
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