This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The animVal property of the SVGAnimatedEnumeration interface contains the current value of an SVG enumeration. If there is no animation, it is the same value as the baseVal.
An integer containing the current value of the enumeration
<div>
<svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" width="200" height="200">
<clipPath id="clip1" clipPathUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
<animate
attributeName="clipPathUnits"
values="userSpaceOnUse;objectBoundingBox;userSpaceOnUse"
dur="2s"
repeatCount="indefinite" />
<circle cx="50" cy="50" r="25" />
</clipPath>
<rect id="r1" x="0" y="0" width="50" height="100" />
<use clip-path="url(#clip1)" href="#r1" fill="lightblue" />
</svg>
</div>
<pre id="log"></pre>
const clipPath1 = document.getElementById("clip1");
const log = document.getElementById("log");
function displayLog() {
const animValue = clipPath1.clipPathUnits.animVal;
const baseValue = clipPath1.clipPathUnits.baseVal;
log.textContent = `The 'clipPathUnits.animVal' is ${animValue}.\n`;
log.textContent += `The 'clipPathUnits.baseVal' is ${baseValue}.`;
requestAnimationFrame(displayLog);
}
displayLog();
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
animVal |
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/SVGAnimatedEnumeration/animVal