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user123757
user123757

Reputation: 829

Creating SVG graphics using Javascript?

How can I create SVG graphics using JavaScript?

Do all browsers support SVG?

Upvotes: 82

Views: 129618

Answers (9)

Kamil Kiełczewski
Kamil Kiełczewski

Reputation: 92743

innerHTML

Currently all major browsers support svg. Create svg in JS is very simple (currently innerHTML=... is quite fast)

element.innerHTML = `
    <svg viewBox="0 0 400 100" >
      <circle id="circ" cx="50" cy="50" r="50" fill="red" />
    </svg>
`;


box.innerHTML = `
  <svg viewBox="0 0 400 100" >
    <circle id="circ" cx="50" cy="50" r="50" fill="red" />
  </svg>
`;


function decRadius() {
  r=circ.getAttribute('r');
  circ.setAttribute('r',r*0.5);
}
<button onclick="decRadius()">Decrease radius</button>
<div id="box"></div>

Upvotes: 2

fuzzyTew
fuzzyTew

Reputation: 3788

This answer is from 2009. Now a community wiki in case anybody cares to bring it up-to-date.

IE needs a plugin to display SVG. Most common is the one available for download by Adobe; however, Adobe no longer supports or develops it. Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, will all display basic SVG fine but will run into quirks if advanced features are used, as support is incomplete. Firefox has no support for declarative animation.

SVG elements can be created with javascript as follows:

// "circle" may be any tag name
var shape = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "circle");
// Set any attributes as desired
shape.setAttribute("cx", 25);
shape.setAttribute("cy", 25);
shape.setAttribute("r",  20);
shape.setAttribute("fill", "green");
// Add to a parent node; document.documentElement should be the root svg element.
// Acquiring a parent element with document.getElementById() would be safest.
document.documentElement.appendChild(shape);

The SVG specification describes the DOM interfaces for all SVG elements. For example, the SVGCircleElement, which is created above, has cx, cy, and r attributes for the center point and radius, which can be directly accessed. These are the SVGAnimatedLength attributes, which have a baseVal property for the normal value, and an animVal property for the animated value. Browsers at the moment are not reliably supporting the animVal property. baseVal is an SVGLength, whose value is set by the value property.

Hence, for script animations, one can also set these DOM properties to control SVG. The following code should be equivalent to the above code:

var shape = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "circle");
shape.cx.baseVal.value = 25;
shape.cy.baseVal.value = 25;
shape.r.baseVal.value = 20;
shape.setAttribute("fill", "green");
document.documentElement.appendChild(shape);

Upvotes: 26

themadmax
themadmax

Reputation: 2404

I found no complied answer so to create circle and add to svg try this:

var svgns = "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
var svg = document.getElementById('svg');
var shape = document.createElementNS(svgns, "circle");
shape.setAttributeNS(null, "cx", 25);
shape.setAttributeNS(null, "cy", 25);
shape.setAttributeNS(null, "r",  20);
shape.setAttributeNS(null, "fill", "green");
svg.appendChild(shape);
<svg id="svg" width="100" height="100"></svg>

Upvotes: 6

Phil
Phil

Reputation: 1200

There are multiple libraries on SVG graphics using Javascript like: Snap, Raphael, D3. Or you can directly interface the SVG with plain javascript.

Currently all latest versions of the browsers support SVG v1.1. SVG v2.0 is in Working Draft and too early to use it.

This article shows how to interact with SVG using Javascript and has reference to links for browser support. Interfacing with SVG

Upvotes: 2

schnaader
schnaader

Reputation: 49731

Have a look at this list on Wikipedia about which browsers support SVG. It also provides links to more details in the footnotes. Firefox for example supports basic SVG, but at the moment lacks most animation features.

A tutorial about how to create SVG objects using Javascript can be found here:

var svgns = "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
var svgDocument = evt.target.ownerDocument;
var shape = svgDocument.createElementNS(svgns, "circle");
shape.setAttributeNS(null, "cx", 25);
shape.setAttributeNS(null, "cy", 25);
shape.setAttributeNS(null, "r",  20);
shape.setAttributeNS(null, "fill", "green");

Upvotes: 31

OsamaBinLogin
OsamaBinLogin

Reputation: 643

So if you want to build your SVG stuff piece by piece in JS, then don't just use createElement(), those won't draw, use this instead:

var ci = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "circle");

Upvotes: 0

dev4life
dev4life

Reputation: 11404

IE 9 now supports basic SVG 1.1. It was about time, although IE9 still is far behind Google Chrome and Firefox SVG support.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/hh410107.aspx

Upvotes: 0

U.Ahmad
U.Ahmad

Reputation: 618

All modern browsers except IE support SVG

Here is a tutorial that provides step by step guide on how to work with SVG using javascript:

SVG Scripting with JavaScript Part 1: Simple Circle

Like Boldewyn has said already if you want

To do it cross-browser, I strongly recommend RaphaelJS: rapaheljs.com

Although right now I feel the size of the library is too large. It has many great features some of which you might not need.

Upvotes: 8

kemiller2002
kemiller2002

Reputation: 115548

No not all browsers support SVG. I believe IE needs a plugin to use them. Since svg is just an xml document, JavaScript can create them. I am not certain about loading it into the browser though. I haven't tried that.

This link has information about javascript and svg:

http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/SVGAnimations.htm

Upvotes: 2

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