Like my title says, I'm trying to programmatically creating an SVG image element in a HTML page using javascript. For some reason my basic javascript code isn't working, however if I use the raphaeljs library it works fine. So there's obviously a problem with my js - I just can't seem to figure out what it is.
(note: the target browser is FF4+)
Here is the basic page with an html version of what I'm trying to achieve up the top:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://raphaeljs.com/raphael.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<svg
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
id="test1"
height="200px"
width="200px">
<image
id="testimg1"
xlink:href="http://i.imgur.com/LQIsf.jpg"
width="100"
height="100"
x="0"
y="0"/>
</svg>
<hr />
<p id="testP1">
</p>
<hr />
<p id="testP2">
</p>
</body>
</html>
And here is my javascript:
var paper = Raphael(document.getElementById("testP1"), 200, 200);
paper.image("http://i.imgur.com/LQIsf.jpg", 0,0, 100, 100);
var svg = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','svg');
svg.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','xlink','http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink');
svg.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','height','200');
svg.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','width','200');
svg.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','id','test2');
var svgimg = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','image');
svgimg.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','height','100');
svgimg.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','width','100');
svgimg.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','id','testimg2');
svgimg.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink','href','http://i.imgur.com/LQIsf.jpg');
svgimg.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','x','0');
svgimg.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg','y','0');
svg.appendChild(svgimg);
document.querySelector('#testP2').appendChild(svg);
Live example: http://jsfiddle.net/Yansky/UVFBj/5/