Get the bounding box of a selected SVG element

Question

I want to read:

• width,height,x,y measurements

for a particular SVG element.

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I suppose that easiest way to go about this is to fetch the minimum bounding box first and read it's properties.

How can I access this?

Answer 1

If you have a reference to the DOM node, use

svgNode.getBoundingClientRect()

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/element.getBoundingClientRect

Edit: SVG Edit has a method to return currently selected elements:

svgCanvas.getSelectedElems()

so in the above example:

svgNode = svgCanvas.getSelectedElems()[0];
svgNode.getBoundingClientRect();