SVGTextContentElement: getExtentOfChar() 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 getExtentOfChar() method of the SVGTextContentElement interface the represents computed tight bounding box of the glyph cell that corresponds to a given typographic character.

Syntax

js
SVGTextContentElement.getExtentOfChar(index)

Parameters

index

An integer; the index of the character.

Return value

A DOMRect object; the tight bounding box of the specified character.

Exceptions

IndexSizeError DOMException

Thrown if no character is found at index.

Examples

Getting the Extent of a Character

html
<svg width="300" height="100">
  <text id="exampleText" x="10" y="50" font-size="16">Hello, SVG World!</text>
</svg>
js
const textElement = document.getElementById("exampleText");

// Get the extent (bounding box) of the character at index 0 (the first character)
const extent = textElement.getExtentOfChar(0);

// The bounding box of the first character
console.dir(extent); // Output: DOMRect { x: 10, y: 38, width: 11.55, height: 16 }

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGTextContentElement__getExtentOfChar

Browser compatibility

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See also