SVGTextPositioningElement: dy 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 dy read-only property of the SVGTextPositioningElement interface describes the y-axis coordinate of the SVGTextElement, SVGTSpanElement, or SVGTRefElement as an SVGAnimatedLengthList. It reflects the dy attribute's vertical displacement of the individual text glyphs in the user coordinate system.

The attribute value is a list of <length>, <percentage>, or <number>. The numeric values in the SVGAnimatedLengthList.baseVal reflect the vertical displacements in the user coordinate system.

Value

An SVGAnimatedLengthList.

Examples

Given the following SVG:

html
<svg viewBox="0 0 200 200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text x="10" y="20" dy="5">Hello</text>
  <text x="50" y="50" dy="10">World</text>
</svg>

We can access the computed values of the dy attributes:

js
const texts = document.querySelectorAll("text");

console.log(texts[0].dy.baseVal[0].value); // output: 5
console.log(texts[1].dy.baseVal[0].value); // output: 10

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGTextPositioningElement__dy

Browser compatibility

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See also