This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The targetElement read-only property of the SVGAnimationElement interface refers to the element which is being animated. If no target element is being animated (for example, because the href attribute specifies an unknown element), the value returned is null.
An SVGElement object.
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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 | |
targetElement |
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/targetElement