SVGAElement: target property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

The SVGAElement.target read-only property of SVGAElement returns an SVGAnimatedString object that specifies the portion of a target window, frame, pane into which a document is to be opened when a link is activated.

This property is used when there are multiple possible targets for the ending resource, like when the parent document is a multi-frame HTML or XHTML document.

Value

An SVGAnimatedString indicating the ending resource target that opens the document when the link is activated.

Sample values can be found here

Examples

The code is taken from the "SVGAElement example code"

js
// ...
const linkRef = document.querySelector("a");
linkRef.target = "_blank";
// ...

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGAElement__target

Browser compatibility

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See also