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SVG/JavaScript example: dynamically create a svg line with JavaScript

The following example dynamically creates an svg line with JavaScript:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
  <title>line with javascript</title>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    function main() {

       var xmlns     ="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
       var svg       = document.createElementNS (xmlns, "svg");

       svg.setAttributeNS(null, 'width' ,  500);
       svg.setAttributeNS(null, 'height',  500);

       var line = document.createElementNS(xmlns, 'line');
       line.setAttributeNS(null, 'x1',  10);
       line.setAttributeNS(null, 'y1',  10);
       line.setAttributeNS(null, 'x2', 490);
       line.setAttributeNS(null, 'y2', 490);
       line.style.stroke='rgb(255,90,50)';
       line.style.strokeWidth=5;

       svg.appendChild(line)

       document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(svg);


    }
  </script>
</head>
<body onload='main();'>

</body>
</html>

Github repository about-svg, path: /javascript/line.html

SVG/JavaScript example: dynamically create a svg line with JavaScript

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