SVGGraphicsElement

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 SVGGraphicsElement interface represents SVG elements whose primary purpose is to directly render graphics into a group.

Instance properties

This interface also inherits properties from its parent, SVGElement.

SVGGraphicsElement.requiredExtensions Read only: An SVGStringList reflecting the requiredExtensions attribute of the given element.
SVGGraphicsElement.systemLanguage Read only: An SVGStringList reflecting the systemLanguage attribute of the given element.
SVGGraphicsElement.transform Read only: An SVGAnimatedTransformList reflecting the computed value of the transform property and its corresponding transform attribute of the given element.

This interface also inherits methods from its parent, SVGElement.

SVGGraphicsElement.getBBox(): Returns a DOMRect representing the computed bounding box of the current element.
SVGGraphicsElement.getCTM(): Returns a DOMMatrix representing the matrix that transforms the current element's coordinate system to its SVG viewport's coordinate system.
SVGGraphicsElement.getScreenCTM(): Returns a DOMMatrix representing the matrix that transforms the current element's coordinate system to the coordinate system of the SVG viewport for the SVG document fragment.

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # InterfaceSVGGraphicsElement

This page was last modified on ⁨May 15, 2025⁩ by MDN contributors.