SVGViewElement: viewBox 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 viewBox read-only property of the SVGViewElement interface reflects the viewBox attribute of the given <view> element. It represents the x, y, width, and height values defining the area to be used for the view's viewBox.

Value

An SVGAnimatedRect object.

Example

Given the following SVG, we can use the viewBox property to retrieve the dimensions of the viewBox for a view element:

html
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 200 200">
  <view id="view1" viewBox="0 0 50 50"></view>
  <circle cx="100" cy="100" r="80" fill="blue" />
</svg>

We can access the viewBox attribute:

js
const view = document.querySelector("view");

console.log(view.viewBox.baseVal); // output: DOMRect {x: 0, y: 0, width: 50, height: 50}

Specifications

Specification

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGFitToViewBox__viewBox

Browser compatibility

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