Get the bounding box of a selected SVG element

Question

I want to read:

• width,height,x,y measurements

for a particular SVG element.

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I suppose that easiest way to go about this is to fetch the minimum bounding box first and read it's properties.

How can I access this?

Answer 1

If you have a reference to the DOM node, use

svgNode.getBoundingClientRect()

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/element.getBoundingClientRect

Edit: SVG Edit has a method to return currently selected elements:

svgCanvas.getSelectedElems()

so in the above example:

svgNode = svgCanvas.getSelectedElems()[0];
svgNode.getBoundingClientRect();

Answer 2

Please see http://granite.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/BBox0M.svg for the example and answer.

In brief, this code works for me in Chrome:

<script>
function foo(evt)
{
    console.log(evt.target.getBBox());      
}
</script>

<svg>
    <circle onclick="foo(evt)" r="20%" cx="50%" cy="50%"/>
</svg>