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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 0.7em;
}
pre {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 180px;
font-size: 1.3em;
}
svg {
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
border: 3px solid black;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
th, td {
padding: 2px;
}
td:nth-child(3) {
text-align: right;
}
text {
font-size: 2em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<svg width="150" height="150">
<text id="test1" y="50">test1</text>
<text id="test2" y="100">
<tspan id="test3">test3</tspan>
</text>
<tspan id="test4">test4</tspan>
</svg>
<pre>
&lt;svg width="150" height="150"&gt;
&lt;text id="test1" y="50"&gt;test1&lt;/text&gt;
&lt;text id="test2" y="100"&gt;
&lt;tspan id="test3"&gt;test3&lt;/tspan&gt;
&lt;/text&gt;
&lt;tspan id="test4"&gt;test4&lt;/tspan&gt;
&lt;/svg&gt;
</pre>
<p></p>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>id</th><th>Code</th><th>Result</th><th>Note</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test1</td><td>document.getElementById("test1").getBBox().width</td><td id="result1a"></td><td>Integer in Chrome; Float in IE and Firefox.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test2</td><td>document.getElementById("test2").getBBox().width</td><td id="result2a"></td><td>Integer in Chrome; Float in IE and Firefox.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test3</td><td>document.getElementById("test3").getBBox().width</td><td id="result3a"></td><td>IE and Firefox can't get the BBox of a TSPAN and error out.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test4</td><td>document.getElementById("test4").getBBox().width</td><td id="result4a"></td><td>IE and Firefox can't get the BBox of a TSPAN whether it's inside a TEXT or not.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="4"></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>test1</td><td>document.getElementById("test1").getBoundingClientRect().width</td><td id="result1b"></td><td>Integer in IE, Chrome and Safari. Same width as "test2" in Chrome eventhough 1 is narrower than 2.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test2</td><td>document.getElementById("test2").getBoundingClientRect().width</td><td id="result2b"></td><td>Integer in IE, Chrome and Safari. Same width as "test1" in Chrome eventhough 2 is wider than 1.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test3</td><td>document.getElementById("test3").getBoundingClientRect().width</td><td id="result3b"></td><td>Integer in Chrome and Safari.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test4</td><td>document.getElementById("test4").getBoundingClientRect().width</td><td id="result4b"></td><td>Integer in Chrome and Safari.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="4"></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>test1</td><td>document.getElementById("test1").getComputedTextLength()</td><td id="result1c"></td><td>Integer in Chrome; Float in IE and Firefox.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test2</td><td>document.getElementById("test2").getComputedTextLength()</td><td id="result2c"></td><td>Integer in Chrome; Float in IE and Firefox.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test3</td><td>document.getElementById("test3").getComputedTextLength()</td><td id="result3c"></td><td>Integer in Chrome; Float in IE and Firefox.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>test4</td><td>document.getElementById("test4").getComputedTextLength()</td><td id="result4c"></td><td>A TSPAN which is not in a TEXT has no width</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script>
document.body.onload = function () {
document.getElementById("result1a").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test1").getBBox().width;
document.getElementById("result2a").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test2").getBBox().width;
try {
document.getElementById("result3a").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test3").getBBox().width;
}
catch(e) {
document.getElementById("result3a").innerHTML = e.message;
}
try {
document.getElementById("result4a").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test4").getBBox().width;
}
catch(e) {
document.getElementById("result4a").innerHTML = e.message;
}
document.getElementById("result1b").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test1").getBoundingClientRect().width;
document.getElementById("result2b").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test2").getBoundingClientRect().width;
document.getElementById("result3b").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test3").getBoundingClientRect().width;
document.getElementById("result4b").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test4").getBoundingClientRect().width;
document.getElementById("result1c").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test1").getComputedTextLength();
document.getElementById("result2c").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test2").getComputedTextLength();
document.getElementById("result3c").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test3").getComputedTextLength();
document.getElementById("result4c").innerHTML = document.getElementById("test4").getComputedTextLength();
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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