This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The getSVGDocument() method of the HTMLEmbedElement interface returns the Document object of the embedded SVG.
getSVGDocument()
None.
A Document.
const svg = document.getElementById("el").getSVGDocument();
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-media-getsvgdocument-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
getSVGDocument |
1 | 12 | 1.5 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLEmbedElement/getSVGDocument