SVGTextPathElement: spacing 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 spacing read-only property of the SVGTextPathElement interface reflects the spacing attribute of the given <textPath> element. It takes one of the TEXTPATH_SPACINGTYPE_* constants defined on this interface.
Value
An SVGAnimatedEnumeration object.
Examples
Accessing the spacing property
html
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="400" height="200">
<defs>
<path id="myPath" d="M10 80 C 40 10, 65 10, 95 80 S 150 150, 180 80" />
</defs>
<text font-size="20" fill="blue">
<textPath id="myTextPath" href="#myPath" spacing="auto">
This text follows a path!
</textPath>
</text>
</svg>
js
const textPath = document.getElementById("myTextPath");
// Access the spacing property
console.log(textPath.spacing.baseVal); // Output: 1 (TEXTPATH_SPACINGTYPE_AUTO)
Specifications
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| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # __svg__SVGTextPathElement__spacing |
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