SVGElement: viewportElement 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 viewportElement property of the SVGElement interface represents the SVGElement which established the current viewport. Often the nearest ancestor <svg> element. null if the given element is the outermost <svg> element.

Value

An SVGElement.

Examples

Retrieving the viewportElement

html
<svg id="outerSvg" width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <svg id="innerSvg" x="10" y="10" width="100" height="100">
    <circle id="circle" cx="50" cy="50" r="40" fill="blue"></circle>
  </svg>
</svg>
js
const circle = document.getElementById("circle");
const innerSvg = document.getElementById("innerSvg");
const outerSvg = document.getElementById("outerSvg");

console.log(circle.viewportElement); // Output: <svg id="innerSvg">...</svg>
console.log(innerSvg.viewportElement); // Output: <svg id="outerSvg">...</svg>
console.log(outerSvg.viewportElement); // Output: null

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGElement__viewportElement

Browser compatibility

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See also