I'm trying to modify an svg tag with javascript to make it resizable, but my changes have no effect. The reason that I need to do this is that this tag is rendered by a library that I can't modify, and thus it seems like my only choice is to modify the svg with javascript.
I know that the tag that this script produces is correct since I am able to copy the tag to a new html document and it will work (I have included it in the sample code), so it seems like I need some way to force the svg to recognize that it has been changed (or another way to modify the svg).
Here's a HTML page that shows my problem:
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
var svg = $('#testsvg').find('svg')[0];
var w = svg.getAttribute('width').replace('px', '');
var h = svg.getAttribute('height').replace('px', '');
svg.removeAttribute('width');
svg.removeAttribute('height');
svg.setAttribute('viewbox', '0 0 ' + w + ' ' + h);
svg.setAttribute('preserveaspectratio', 'xminymin meet')
$(svg)
.css('width', '100%')
.css('height', '100%')
.css('background-color', 'white');
});
</script>
</head>
<body style="background-color: #333;">
<div style="width: 80%; height: 40%;">
<svg id="resultsvg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: white; " viewbox="0 0 100 100" preserveaspectratio="xminymin meet">
<circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" stroke="black" stroke-width="2" fill="red"></circle>
</svg>
</div>
<div id="testsvg" style="width: 80%; height: 40%;">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" width="100px" height="100px">
<circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" stroke="black" stroke-width="2" fill="red" />
</svg>
</div>
</body>
</html>
SVG is case sensitive so
should be written
width and height on the
<svg>
element are attributes and not styles (unlike html) so you should usesetAttribute('width', '100%')
rather than.css('width', '100%')
jQuery
convert attribute name to lower case; e.g., instead of setting aviewBox
attribute, it will setviewbox
. Unfortunately, SVG (a XML dialect) element attribute names are case sensitive.If you wanted to use jQuery consistently, you could use
$.attrHooks
to handle the case sensitive attributes:Note that
el.attr('viewBox', null)
would failed; your hook setter won't be called. Instead you should useel.removeAttr('viewBox')
orel.attr('viewBox', false)
.For other attribute like stroke, I would put them in a stylesheet.
If you need to add/toggle class to change the style of a specific elements, you need to use jQuery 1.12+ or jquery 2.2+.