SVGMarkerElement: setOrientToAngle() method

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 setOrientToAngle() method of the SVGMarkerElement interface sets the value of the orient attribute to the value in the SVGAngle passed in.

Syntax

js
setOrientToAngle(angle)

Parameters

angle

An SVGAngle.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

In the following example the value of the orient attribute is updated using setOrientToAngle() using an SVGAngle created using SVGSVGElement.createSVGAngle().

html
<svg id="svg" viewBox="0 0 100 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <defs>
    <marker
      id="arrow"
      viewBox="0 0 10 10"
      refX="5"
      refY="5"
      markerWidth="6"
      markerHeight="6"
      orient="90">
      <path d="M 0 0 L 10 5 L 0 10 z" />
    </marker>
  </defs>
</svg>
js
let svg = document.getElementById("svg");
let marker = document.getElementById("arrow");
console.log(marker.orientAngle.baseVal.value); // value in SVG above - 90
let angle = svg.createSVGAngle();
angle.value = "110";
marker.setOrientToAngle(angle);
console.log(marker.orientAngle.baseVal.value); // new value - 110

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGMarkerElement__setOrientToAngle

Browser compatibility

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