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Setting html to `<svg><use xlink:href=...></svg>` produces empty SVG in Chrome

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior

In Chrome, setting html parameter to

<svg viewBox="0 0 30 10" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <use xlink:href="/test/icons.svg#account"></use>
</svg>

where icons.svg is

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <symbol id="account" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
    <path d="M12,4A4,4 0 0,1 16,8A4,4 0 0,1 12,12A4,4 0 0,1 8,8A4,4 0 0,1 12,4M12,14C16.42,14 20,15.79 20,18V20H4V18C4,15.79 7.58,14 12,14Z" />
  </symbol>
</svg>

produces empty icon:

Expected behavior

There should be an icon, Firefox works as expected. Most probably the issue is related to https://github.com/sweetalert2/sweetalert2/pull/1930

Live demo

https://cerulean-secret-hip.glitch.me/

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:8 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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gvernicommented, Jun 15, 2020

Quick update, I tested it on Canary 85.0.x and works fine:

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gvernicommented, Apr 11, 2020

@limonte I spent quite a lot of hours trying to debug it, but I haven’t found anything that can fix it. The only workaround I found is to force chrome to re-render the <use> resetting the link after the element has been attached to the destination:

let useHref = useElem.getAttribute("xlink:href")
useElem.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink", "xlink:href", "")
useElem.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink", "xlink:href", useHref)

I’ll keep doing some more investigation and experiment because I don’t really like this solution…