SVGMarkerElement: refX 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 refX read-only property of the SVGMarkerElement interface returns an SVGAnimatedLength object containing the value of the refX attribute of the <marker>.

Value

An SVGAnimatedLength object. The baseVal property of this object returns an SVGLength, the value of which returns the refX.

Examples

The markerWidth property returns an SVGAnimatedLength which contains an SVGLength with the value of the refX attribute.

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="auto-start-reverse">
      <path d="M 0 0 L 10 5 L 0 10 z" />
    </marker>
  </defs>
</svg>

let marker = document.getElementById("arrow");
console.log(marker.refX.baseVal.value); // 5

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # __svg__SVGMarkerElement__refX

Browser compatibility

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