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DOM Interface	SVGElement

Examples

In the following code example, the desc element is used to define a description of an element. This element can be read programatically to analyze SVG structure.

Copy this sample to a text file and save it with the .html file extension. Run it in Internet Explorer 9 to see a greenyellow ellipse.

The element will look like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <svg width="400" height="400">
      <ellipse cx="150" cy="100" rx="100" ry="75" fill="greenyellow">
        <desc>This is the description of an ellipse.</desc>
      </ellipse>
    </svg>
  </body>
</html>

Notes

Remarks

Note: In addition to the attributes, properties, events, methods, and styles listed above, SVG elements also inherent core HTML attributes, properties, events, methods, and styles.

Standards information

Scalable Vector Graphics: Document Structure, Section 5.11.5

Members

The SVGDescElement object has these events:

onload: Occurs when the browser has fully parsed the element and all of its descendants.

The SVGDescElement object has these properties:

className: Gets the names of the classes that are assigned to this object.
focusable: Determines if an element can acquire keyboard focus (that is, receive keyboard events) and be a target for field-to-field navigation actions (such as when a user presses the Tab key).
ownerSVGElement: Gets the nearest ancestor svg element.
style: Gets a style object.
viewportElement: Gets the element that established the current viewport.
xmlbase: Gets or sets the base attribute on the element.
xmllang: Gets or sets a value that specifies the language that is used in the contents and attribute values of an element.
xmlspace: Gets or sets a value that indicates whether white space is preserved in character data.

This article contains content originally from external sources.

Portions of this content come from the Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]

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