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SVGFEDropShadowElement: stdDeviationY property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨January 2020⁩.

The stdDeviationY read-only property of the SVGFEDropShadowElement interface reflects the (possibly automatically computed) Y component of the stdDeviation attribute of the given <feDropShadow> element.

Value

An SVGAnimatedNumber object.

Examples

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Accessing the stdDeviationY value

In this example, we retrieve the vertical standard deviation for the blur operation of the <feDropShadow> by using the stdDeviationY read-only property of the SVGFEDropShadowElement interface.

<svg viewBox="0 0 200 200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <defs>
    <filter id="drop-shadow-filter">
      <!-- Drop Shadow with stdDeviationY property set to 10 for vertical blur -->
      <feDropShadow
        in="SourceGraphic"
        dx="10"
        dy="10"
        stdDeviation="5 10"
        flood-color="gray" />
    </filter>
  </defs>

  <!-- Rectangle with a gray shadow -->
  <rect
    x="50"
    y="50"
    width="100"
    height="100"
    fill="red"
    filter="url(#drop-shadow-filter)" />
</svg>
const dropShadow = document.querySelector("feDropShadow");

console.log(dropShadow.stdDeviationY.baseVal); // Output: 10

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
stdDeviationY 13 79 30 15 6 18 30 14 6 1.0 4.4 6

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SVGFEDropShadowElement/stdDeviationY