SVGTextPathElement: spacing property

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 spacing read-only property of the SVGTextPathElement interface reflects the spacing attribute of the given <textPath> element. It takes one of the TEXTPATH_SPACINGTYPE_* constants defined on this interface.

Value

An SVGAnimatedEnumeration object.

Examples

Accessing the spacing property

html
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="400" height="200">
  <defs>
    <path id="myPath" d="M10 80 C 40 10, 65 10, 95 80 S 150 150, 180 80" />
  </defs>
  <text font-size="20" fill="blue">
    <textPath id="myTextPath" href="#myPath" spacing="auto">
      This text follows a path!
    </textPath>
  </text>
</svg>

js
const textPath = document.getElementById("myTextPath");

// Access the spacing property
console.log(textPath.spacing.baseVal); // Output: 1 (TEXTPATH_SPACINGTYPE_AUTO)