How can I detect if an SVG contains a specific symbol? - svg

I am using an svg file with symbols as follow:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<use xlink:href="aFile.svg#symbolName"/>
</svg>
Now I would like to know if the "aFile.svg" really contains the "symbolName" and simply raise an exception if not. For now, I did put an event onload on the <use> tag. When the <use> get loaded, I check the content's item size getBoundingClientRect(). If the size is greater than 0,0 it means we do have an item….
Everything was working fine until I tried on Safari. On Safari, I am getting a racing condition problem. The size of the <use> tag is not always ready when safari firesw onload. Which means that, sometimes I get the size, sometimes not (it is really random…). I temporarily fixed it using a window.timeout(...) but it is not the proper way to fix racing condition issues. So just to say, I am wondering if there is a cleaner way to achieve the same?

You probably cannot do this directly. If you first injected your file aFile.svg into the DOM you could simply use querySelector() to detect if the Symbol is available.
For injecting the SVG file this like may be useful: https://css-tricks.com/ajaxing-svg-sprite/

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Safari foreignObject tag without uppercase in devtools

I'm using the foreignObject tag inside an SVG, which is working on Chrome, however, it isn't working on Safari. I have gone through about 20 solutions, but the issue persists.
One of the solutions was a user mistyping foreignObject, they instead wrote it as foreignobject (lowercase "O").
In my code, foreignObject is spelled with the correct casing, however, in Safari's devtools, I notice that the tag is spelled foreignobject!
(Below, Safari devtools screenshot, and my code screenshot)
I'm sure this is what is causing the issue I'm having, but it makes no sense, since I have it written correctly in the code, but it's misread when Safari builds the site.
Is there any precedence for something like this? What can I do to change this misreading of my element tag name?
The problem is that you are setting the xmlns attribute of your <foreignObject> to the XHTML name-space. Safari will thus consider it an HTML element when the SVG document is served as a standalone (if it was served inline in an HTML document, then they'd discard it.
This attribute must be set on the top HTML element, that is on the <foreignObject> content:
<foreignObject
requiredFeatures="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/feature#Extensibility"
width="300"
height="100"
>
<html-elem xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">...
(Note that when served inline in an HTML document, Safari's web-dev tools will also show this element lower-cased, even though it will work correctly).

SVG-animation on hover - first steps, how to?

I'd like to do an animation to an element when hovering it.
As I do use svg-elements for both situations (standard and hover-state) I guess I must somehow manipulate the first svg-element when hovering it by editing the svg-code inline.
I basically'd need a starting point there:
How would I "redraw" in an animated manner the hover-image and not just swap it?
Do I need a 3rd party library (which)?
If I had multiple of these situations, how would I keep my code clean by not having 10 svg-codes inline within my html-source?
Thanks for your answer(s)!
The code for the svg-image(s) is here
<svg id="Ebene_1" data-name="Ebene 1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 1280 800">
<defs><style>.cls-1,.cls-2{fill:none;stroke:#000;}.cls-1{stroke-miterlimit:10;stroke-width:7px;}.cls-2{stroke-linejoin:bevel;stroke-width:5px;}</style></defs>
<title>arrows_demoZeichenfläche 1</title>
<line class="cls-1" x1="325.5" y1="333" x2="325.5" y2="539"/>
<polyline class="cls-2" points="242 455.67 325.75 539.42 409.42 455.75"/><path class="cls-1" d="M670.5,135.79c0,11.62-8,11.73-8,23.35s8,11.68,8,23.3-8,11.65-8,23.28,8,11.64,8,23.26-8,11.63-8,23.25,8,11.63,8,23.25-8,11.63-8,23.25,8,11.63,8,23.25-8,11.62-8,23.25,8,11.62,8,23.25-8,11.63-8,23.25,8,11.63,8,23.25-8,11.62-8,23.25,8,11.62,8,23.25-8,11.63-8,23.25,8,11.63,8,23.25v31"/>
<polyline class="cls-2" points="587 455.67 670.75 539.42 754.42 455.75"/></svg>
You could use JavaScript to manipulate the value of the points attribute, but such changes would be sudden, so the change would look like a stop motion film.
Like this Codepen, what you could do is give a path element a stroke-dasharray that is equal to the getTotalLength of the path in order to "erase" the straight line (of the arrow) off the page, then quickly switch the value of the d attribute, and then "redraw" the line back onto the page?
However, I don't believe that's what you're looking for. I believe HTML5 Canvas, with my limited knowledge about it, would be the more feasible option for what you're trying to accomplish.
Actually, I guess it might be possible using a CSS3 3D transform, like so. The problem, however, is that the line doesn't have any depth, so when you initially set rotateX(90deg) on the path in CSS the line becomes invisible instead of appearing as a straight line...

Targeting a g id in an SVG for rollovers

I'm working with an SVG file that has been output from Adobe Illustrator, so there is probably quite a bit of unnecessary code. After searching and searching I was able to come up with this.
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="SVG_css.css"?>
path:hover{
fill:#005289;
}
which gets the rollovers to work from the external stylesheet, but it of course targets every path as a rollover.
For instance, I need to target paths in a group so three elements highlight when rolled over. here is the code structure from Illustrator.
<g id="WIRE_ROOM">
<path fill="#BCBEC0" d="M357.3,24.4c0,0.6-0.6,1-1.4,1h-8.1c-0.8,0-1.4-0.5-1.4-1v-8.9c0-0.6,0.6-1,1.4-1h8.1c0.8,0,1.4,0.5,1.4,1
V24.4z"/>
<path fill="#BCBEC0" d="M357.3,51.4c0,0.6-0.6,1-1.4,1h-8.1c-0.8,0-1.4-0.5-1.4-1v-8.9c0-0.6,0.6-1,1.4-1h8.1c0.8,0,1.4,0.5,1.4,1
V51.4z"/>
<path fill="#BCBEC0" d="M376.7,24.4c0,0.6-0.6,1-1.4,1h-8.1c-0.8,0-1.4-0.5-1.4-1v-8.9c0-0.6,0.6-1,1.4-1h8.1c0.8,0,1.4,0.5,1.4,1
V24.4z"/>
</g>
I've tried associating the ID to the stylesheet, and didn't have any luck...I also tried associating a class directly into the SVG.
If I add class="locations" to the path it of course only rolls over that one element and not the group of elements. When I added the class like this nothing happened. g id="WIRE_ROOM" class="locations"
I would appreciate if someone could assist me with this, as I've searched and tried everything I know to try.
So in the case of "WIRE_ROOM" those are different pieces of equipment, and I need the hover to highlight all 3 of those areas to signify one common area. Thank you!
For future reference, the selector you're looking for is g#WIRE_ROOM:hover path or g.locations:hover path (I'd recommend using the class instead of an ID).
The hover state on the group is triggered when any of the child elements are moused-over, and then the selector applies the hover style to all the child paths.
You have to specifically mention the paths in the selector -- you can't rely on inheritance -- because your file directly sets fill colors on the paths, which takes precedence over any inherited style.

Change multiple colors of a SVG object

I have a SVG logo rendered to the canvas using fabric.js, the original SVG is all black in color but I need the user to be able to change the color of each different parts of the logo, resulting in a object with multiple colors, e.g.:
wikimediauruguay.org/images/5/53/Wikimedia-logo.png
How can I achieve this? If I just use object.setFill() it changes the color of the entire object but I need to change the color of every part separately to whatever colors the user choose. Thanks.
EDIT: found the solution, just posted my answer below in case somebody else has the same question.
Perhaps someone who knows something about fabric.js would answer in a way that makes more sense for your case, but with plain old svg, an object is often a <g< element with things ( like <rect>, <path>, <ellipse>) inside. Each child of the group, can have its own event handler:
<g>
<path onclick='handle(evt)' attrs=stuff />
<rect onclick='handle(evt)' attrs=stuff />
<circle onclick='handle(evt)' attrs=stuff />
</g>
The function activated by the click can then interrogate evt.target to see which of the subelements received the click, sorta like this:
if (evt.target.nodeName=="path") {evt.target.setAttribute("fill","purple")}
Solved mi problem in a very simple way: I just needed to edit the SVG on Illustrator so that every different colored part of the logo will be on a different layer, then when I loaded the SVG via fabric.loadSVGFromURL() each layer will be treated as a different object by fabric.js, then I just could edit each object (layer) separately (setFill(), etc).

creating svg elements with angularJS

I'm trying to create an svg element with angular. Currently I'm able to do an ng-repeat but when I try to assign values to my attributes I get an error.
<g ng-repeat="cell in row">
<rect x="{{cell.node.x}}" y="{{cell.node.y}}"></rect>
<text x="10" y="10">{{cell.node.name}}</text>
</g>
Interesting enough cell.node.name does work and shows the name nicelly but cell.node.x and cell.node.y, give me the following error accordingly
Error: Invalid value for attribute x="cell.node.x" Error: Invalid value for attribute y="cell.node.y"
Any ideas?
The newer versions of Angular feature ngAttr attribute bindings, which should avoid the errors caused when the browser validates before Angular kicks in.
Example (from Angular docs):
<svg>
<circle ng-attr-cx="{{cx}}"></circle>
</svg>
Well, it's working, here's a plunk, but you're getting that error because the browser is validating the SVG before it renders it, and at the time of validation, x and y are equal to "{{cell.node.x}}" and "{{cell.node.y}}" respectively. Once angular updates the view, it will indeed put the rectangles where they're supposed to be.
One thing I noticed though, is you're missing the width and height attributes on the rectangle, which will cause them not to show.
There aren't a lot of good ways to suppress this error. I suppose you could make a custom directive that didn't render the SVG elements until after they'd been $compiled.
As blesh hints: making custom directives for the attributes that cause the problem stops the errors in Chrome. There's a solution in this issue on github.

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