SVGPatternElement: patternContentUnits 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.

ThepatternContentUnits read-only property of theSVGPatternElement interface reflects thepatternContentUnits attribute of the given<pattern> element. It specifies the coordinate system for the pattern content and takes one of the constants defined inSVGUnitTypes.

Value

AnSVGAnimatedEnumeration object.

Example

Given the following SVG:

html

<svg viewBox="0 0 200 200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">  <defs>    <pattern           width="10"      height="10"      patternContentUnits="userSpaceOnUse">      <circle cx="5" cy="5" r="5" fill="blue" />    </pattern>    <pattern           width="10"      height="10"      patternContentUnits="objectBoundingBox">      <circle cx="5" cy="5" r="5" fill="red" />    </pattern>  </defs>  <rect x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100" fill="url(#pattern1)" />  <rect x="100" y="0" width="100" height="100" fill="url(#pattern2)" /></svg>

We can access thepatternContentUnits attribute:

const patterns = document.querySelectorAll("pattern");console.log(patterns[0].patternContentUnits.baseVal); // output: 1 (SVGUnitTypes.USERSPACEONUSE)console.log(patterns[1].patternContentUnits.baseVal); // output: 2 (SVGUnitTypes.OBJECTBOUNDINGBOX)