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 SVGAnimatedLength interface contains the current value of an SVG enumeration. If there is no animation, it is the same value as the baseVal.
An SVGLength containing the current value of the enumeration.
<svg
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
viewBox="0 0 100 100"
width="200"
height="200">
<circle cx="50" cy="50" r="20" fill="gold" id="circle">
<animate
attributeName="r"
values="20;25;10;20"
dur="8s"
repeatCount="indefinite" />
</circle>
</svg>
<pre id="log"></pre>
const circle = document.getElementById("circle");
const log = document.getElementById("log");
function displayLog() {
const animValue = circle.r.animVal.value;
const baseValue = circle.r.baseVal.value;
log.textContent = `The 'circle.r.animVal' is ${animValue}.\n`;
log.textContent += `The 'circle.r.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/SVGAnimatedLength/animVal