SVGPreserveAspectRatio: align 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 align read-only property of the SVGPreserveAspectRatio interface reflects the type of the alignment value as specified by one of the SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_* constants defined on this interface.

Value

One of the following:

SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_UNKNOWN (0)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_NONE (1)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_XMINYMIN (2)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_XMIDYMIN (3)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_XMAXYMIN (4)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_XMINYMID (5)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_XMIDYMID (6)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_XMAXYMID (7)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_XMINYMAX (8)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_XMIDYMAX (9)
SVGPreserveAspectRatio.SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_XMAXYMAX (10)

Examples

Accessing the `align` property

html

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

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

// Access the align property
console.log(svgElement.preserveAspectRatio.baseVal.align); // Output: 6 (SVG_PRESERVEASPECTRATIO_XMIDYMID)