This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The SVGAnimationElement method beginElement() creates a begin instance time for the current time. The new instance time is added to the begin instance times list. The behavior of this method is equivalent to beginElementAt(0).
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This example demonstrates how to use beginElement() to start an animation element:
const animationElement = document.querySelector("animate");
animationElement.beginElement();
console.log("Animation has started.");
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beginElement |
2 | 79 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 4 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 3 | 3.2 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SVGAnimationElement/beginElement