I'm trying to create a circular avatar with D3.js but I cannot get my image to show up in my circle. I'm using a svg pattern def to attempt to fill the circle with an image.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong below? Thank you.
var config = {
"avatar_size" : 48
}
var body = d3.select("body");
var svg = body.append("svg")
.attr("width", 500)
.attr("height", 500);
var defs = svg.append('svg:defs');
defs.append("svg:pattern")
.attr("id", "grump_avatar")
.attr("width", config.avatar_size)
.attr("height", config.avatar_size)
.attr("patternUnits", "userSpaceOnUse")
.append("svg:image")
.attr("xlink:href", 'images/avatars/avatar_grumpy.png')
.attr("width", config.avatar_size)
.attr("height", config.avatar_size)
.attr("x", 0)
.attr("y", 0);
var circle = svg.append("circle")
.attr("cx", config.avatar_size)
.attr("cy", config.avatar_size)
.attr("r", config.avatar_size)
.style("fill", "#fff")
.style("fill", "#grump_avatar");
"Fill" is a style property, you have to use CSS url()
notation for the reference to the pattern element.
Once you fix that, you'll discover that you also have your sizes wrong -- unless your intention was to have four copies of the avatar tiled in the circle!
P.S. I would normally have left this just as a comment, and marked this for closure as a simple typo, but I wanted to try out Stack Snippets:
var config = {
"avatar_size" : 48
}
var body = d3.select("body");
var svg = body.append("svg")
.attr("width", 500)
.attr("height", 500);
var defs = svg.append('svg:defs');
defs.append("svg:pattern")
.attr("id", "grump_avatar")
.attr("width", config.avatar_size)
.attr("height", config.avatar_size)
.attr("patternUnits", "userSpaceOnUse")
.append("svg:image")
.attr("xlink:href", 'http://placekitten.com/g/48/48')
.attr("width", config.avatar_size)
.attr("height", config.avatar_size)
.attr("x", 0)
.attr("y", 0);
var circle = svg.append("circle")
.attr("cx", config.avatar_size/2)
.attr("cy", config.avatar_size/2)
.attr("r", config.avatar_size/2)
.style("fill", "#fff")
.style("fill", "url(#grump_avatar)");
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