SVGGradientElement: gradientUnits property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The gradientUnits read-only property of the SVGGradientElement interface reflects the gradientUnits attribute of the given element. It takes one of the SVG_UNIT_TYPE_* constants defined in SVGUnitTypes.

Value

An SVGAnimatedEnumeration.

Examples

Accessing the gradientUnits property

html
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="200" height="200">
  <defs>
    <linearGradient id="gradient1" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
      <stop offset="0%" stop-color="red" />
      <stop offset="100%" stop-color="blue" />
    </linearGradient>
  </defs>
  <rect x="10" y="10" width="180" height="180" fill="url(#gradient1)" />
</svg>
js
const gradient = document.getElementById("gradient1");
console.log(gradient.gradientUnits.baseVal); // Output: 1 (SVG_UNIT_TYPE_USERSPACEONUSE)

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# __svg__SVGGradientElement__gradientUnits

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
gradientUnits
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 1.5 (Release date: 2005-11-29)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 12.1 (Release date: 2012-11-20)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 3 (Release date: 2007-10-26)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 12.1 (Release date: 2012-10-09)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 3 (Release date: 2011-02-22)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support

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Full support
Full support