This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The getItem() method of the SVGPointList interface gets one item from the list at the specified index.
getItem(index)
indexThe index of the item to return.
A DOMPoint object.
IndexSizeError DOMException
Thrown if the index passed in is greater than the number of items in the list.
The following example shows an SVG which contains a <polyline> with five coordinate pairs. The DOMPoint at index 0.
<svg id="svg" viewBox="-10 -10 120 120" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<polyline
id="example"
stroke="black"
fill="none"
points="50,0 21,90 98,35 2,35 79,90" />
</svg>
const example = document.getElementById("example");
console.log(example.points.getItem(0));
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
getItem |
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/SVGPointList/getItem