SVGUseElement: href 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.
Thehref read-only property of theSVGUseElement interface reflects thehref orxlink:hrefDeprecated attribute of the given element.
In this article
Value
AnSVGAnimatedString object.
Examples
Given the following SVG:
html
<svg viewBox="0 0 200 200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <defs> <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" fill="blue" /> <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" fill="red" /> </defs> <use href="#circle1" x="50" y="50" /> <use href="#circle2" x="100" y="50" /></svg>We can access thehref attribute of the<use> elements:
js
const uses = document.querySelectorAll("use");console.log(uses[0].href.baseVal); // output: "#circle1"console.log(uses[1].href.baseVal); // output: "#circle2"Specifications
| Specification |
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| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2> # __svg__SVGURIReference__href> |