This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The baseVal read-only property of the SVGAnimatedAngle interface represents the base (non-animated) value of the associated <angle> on an SVG element. This property is used to retrieve the static value of the <angle>, unaffected by any ongoing animations.
This property reflects the <angle> value of the orient attribute of the SVG <marker> element, which is the same as the SVGMarkerElement.orientAngle property.
An SVGAngle object representing the base value of the <angle> content type.
SVGAngle.unitType.const marker = document.querySelector("[orient]");
// Set the orient attribute with an angle
marker.setAttribute("orient", "90");
const baseAngle = marker.orientAngle.baseVal; // an SVGAngle object
console.log(baseAngle.value); // Output: 90
console.log(baseAngle.unitType); // Output: 1 (constant for SVG_ANGLETYPE_UNSPECIFIED)
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
baseVal |
1 | 12 | 1.5 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 3 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SVGAnimatedAngle/baseVal