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Fixes references to inline SVG elements when the <base> tag is in use.
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/** | |
* SVG Fixer | |
* | |
* Fixes references to inline SVG elements when the <base> tag is in use. | |
* Firefox won't display SVG icons referenced with | |
* `<svg><use xlink:href="#id-of-icon-def"></use></svg>` when the <base> tag is on the page. | |
* | |
* More info: | |
* - http://stackoverflow.com/a/18265336/796152 | |
* - http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/linking.html | |
* | |
* One would think that setting the `xml:base` attribute fixes things, | |
* but that is being removed from the platform: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=341854 | |
*/ | |
(function(document, window) { | |
"use strict"; | |
/** | |
* Initialize the SVG Fixer after the DOM is ready | |
*/ | |
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { | |
/** | |
* Current URL, without the hash | |
*/ | |
var baseUrl = window.location.href | |
.replace(window.location.hash, ""); | |
/** | |
* Find all `use` elements with a namespaced `href` attribute, e.g. | |
* <use xlink:href="#some-id"></use> | |
* | |
* See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/23047888/796152 | |
*/ | |
[].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll("use[*|href]")) | |
/** | |
* Filter out all elements whose namespaced `href` attribute doesn't | |
* start with `#` (i.e. all non-relative IRI's) | |
* | |
* Note: we're assuming the `xlink` prefix for the XLink namespace! | |
*/ | |
.filter(function(element) { | |
return (element.getAttribute("xlink:href").indexOf("#") === 0); | |
}) | |
/** | |
* Prepend `window.location` to the namespaced `href` attribute value, | |
* in order to make it an absolute IRI | |
* | |
* Note: we're assuming the `xlink` prefix for the XLink namespace! | |
*/ | |
.forEach(function(element) { | |
element.setAttribute("xlink:href", baseUrl + element.getAttribute("xlink:href")); | |
}); | |
}, false); | |
}(document, window)); |
As a note, the mask
attribute is affected too. And this kind of fix is still needed for Safari (iOS / macOS), btw.
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Just giving it another shot, is anyone still active here to help me out ?