SVGEllipseElement: cx 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 cx read-only property of the SVGEllipseElement interface describes the x-axis coordinate of the center of the ellipse as an SVGAnimatedLength. It reflects the computed value of the cx attribute on the <ellipse> element.

The attribute value is a <length>, <percentage>, or <number>. The numeric value of the SVGAnimatedLength.baseVal is the x-coordinate of the ellipse's center in the user coordinate system.

Value

An SVGAnimatedLength.

Example

Given the following SVG:

html
<svg viewBox="0 0 200 200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <ellipse cx="50" cy="75" rx="30" ry="20" fill="blue" />
  <ellipse cx="25%" cy="50%" rx="10%" ry="5%" fill="red" />
</svg>

We can access the computed values of the cx attributes:

js
const ellipses = document.querySelectorAll("ellipse");
const cxPos0 = ellipses[0].cx;
const cxPos1 = ellipses[1].cx;

console.dir(cxPos0.baseVal.value); // output: 50
console.dir(cxPos1.baseVal.value); // output: 50 (25% of 200)

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGEllipseElement__cx

Browser compatibility

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See also