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SVGPreserveAspectRatio: meetOrSlice property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The meetOrSlice read-only property of the SVGPreserveAspectRatio interface reflects the type of the meet-or-slice value as specified by one of the SVG_MEETORSLICE_* constants defined on this interface.

Value

One of the following:

SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_MEETORSLICE_UNKNOWN (0)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_MEETORSLICE_MEET (1)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_MEETORSLICE_SLICE (2)

Examples

Accessing the `meetOrSlice` property

<svg
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
  width="400"
  height="200"
  preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid slice">
  <circle cx="100" cy="100" r="50" fill="blue" />
</svg>

const svgElement = document.querySelector("svg");

// Access the meetOrSlice property
console.log(svgElement.preserveAspectRatio.baseVal.meetOrSlice); // Output: 2 (SVG_MEETORSLICE_SLICE)

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2> # __svg__SVGPreserveAspectRatio__meetOrSlice>

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
`meetOrSlice`	1	12	1.5	≤12.1	3	18	4	≤12.1	1	4.0	4.4	1