319345 - When using tspan element inside a textPath element, the startOffset parameter is ignored

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Bruce Rindahl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051205 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051205 Firefox/1.6a1

Using SVG to center text on a path.  text-anchor attribute is set to "middle" and startOffset is set to "50%".  Display is as expected.  If you add a tspan element to place the text on the path, the startOffset attribute is ignored. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Bruce Rindahl]

Attachment: SVG file showing behavior

Comment 2

[PikeUK]

->Core:SVG

Comment 3

[Bruce Rindahl]

After further investigation the behavior is affected by a carriage return between the <textPath> and the <tspan> tags.  For example:

<textPath .....><tspan ...>Some Text</tspan></textPath>

will display incorrectly while:

<textPath .....>
<tspan ...>Some Text</tspan></textPath>

will display as expected.  I am guessing this must have something to do with computing the length of the string.
Adding a carriage return between the </tspan> </textPath> has no effect.

Comment 4

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Confirming. Fixed by patch in bug 406312

Comment 5

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Fixed by check-in for bug 406312