This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The removeItem() method of the SVGPointList interface removes a DOMPoint from the list.
removeItem(index)
indexThe index of the item to remove.
The removed DOMPoint object.
NoModificationAllowedError DOMException
Thrown if the list is read-only.
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 item at index 2 is removed.
<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.removeItem(2));
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
removeItem |
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/removeItem