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Fixes references to inline SVG elements when the <base> tag is in use.
/**
* 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));
@SatyaAchanta
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Just giving it another shot, is anyone still active here to help me out ?

@ignlg
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ignlg commented Apr 9, 2018

As a note, the mask attribute is affected too. And this kind of fix is still needed for Safari (iOS / macOS), btw.

@ValentinFunk
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