SVG foreignObject not working properly on Safari

Question

I have a problem with SVG's foreignObjects elements on Safari. I am working with SVG elements and what I am using d3.js library.

What I did is to append on canvas a foreignObject element because differently from rect or other SVG elements didn't allow to put html elements inside. Now, after some days of development I noticed that it seems that Safari doesn't allow to put html elements inside a foreignObject. Better, it allows to do and all seems to work according to the inspector, but the I put inside the foreignObject has a background set.

The result is that I can correctly drag the foreignObject and the div inside inside the canvas but differently from Chrome or Firefox, the div's background stay on the canvas top left corner not following the div.

Here below I paste the portion of the style and foreign object code I append to the canvas

SVG

<foreignObject transform="translate(304,215)rotate(-174.86597769360367)" height="180" width="40" class="dragging">
<div class="new-rect" style="background-image: 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left:-45px;">
</div>
</foreignObject>

Style

foreignObject{
    cursor:pointer;
    position:relative;
}
foreignObject div.new-rect{
    position: absolute;
    top: -8px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-size: auto;
    height: 180px;
    width: 130px;
}

That's all. I think I am doing something that Safari doesn't like. But question is .. what ?

Answer 1

I've found that you need to insert a <body> element to get it work in Safari, like this:

<foreignObject width="170" height="28">
    <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <div>my content</div>
    </body>
</foreignObject>