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SVGTextContentElement: getExtentOfChar() method

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 getExtentOfChar() method of the SVGTextContentElement interface the represents computed tight bounding box of the glyph cell that corresponds to a given typographic character.

Syntax

getExtentOfChar(index)

Parameters

index: An integer; the index of the character.

Return value

A DOMRect object; the tight bounding box of the specified character.

Exceptions

IndexSizeError DOMException: Thrown if no character is found at index.

Examples

Getting the Extent of a Character

<svg width="300" height="100">
  <text id="exampleText" x="10" y="50" font-size="16">Hello, SVG World!</text>
</svg>

const textElement = document.getElementById("exampleText");

// Get the extent (bounding box) of the character at index 0 (the first character)
const extent = textElement.getExtentOfChar(0);

// The bounding box of the first character
console.dir(extent); // Output: DOMRect { x: 10, y: 38, width: 11.55, height: 16 }

Specifications

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

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
`getExtentOfChar`	1	12	1.5	≤12.1	3	18	4	≤12.1	1	1.0	3	1