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foreignObject and xhtml

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Hi there, nice-looking project! I’m new to SVG. I’ve been investigating this approach of rendering HTML inside an SVG element, using:

<foreignObject>
  <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  </div>
</foreignObject>

From what I can tell, you don’t support <foreignObject>, is that right? It seems like it would be impossible to support. In any case, it might be worth adding to your “Unsupported” list on the readme!

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Created 6 years ago
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idrisadetunmbicommented, Nov 26, 2019

update for anyone finding this: I’ve managed to change the foreignObject elements into text elements using JavaScript so the labels are displaying properly now

Hi @rebeccaswebsite, please what approach did you take in solving this?

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alafrcommented, Oct 30, 2019

Hi, i don’t know any solution other than converting them to images with canvas (as said above it could be done with a callback function called when a foreignObject is detected). If the foreignObjects are very simple and have always the same syntax it might be possible to use a ‘replace’ with some regex to convert them before using svg-to-pdfkit.