Closed Bug 700477 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

getBoundingClientRect() wrong for XHTML embedded in SVG

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(Core :: SVG, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
SVG
Version:
7 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

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()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

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(Reporter: phrogz, Unassigned)

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html_location_in_svg_in_html.xhtml
2.52 KB, application/octet-stream
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.21 Safari/535.7

Steps to reproduce:

Embedded XHTML inside a <foreignObject> inside SVG and asked for the getBoundingClientRect() of an HTML element therein.


Actual results:

Received coordinates of the element within the embedded `<body>` inside the SVG document, not affected by the scaling or placement of the `<foreignObject>` inside the SVG container.


Expected results:

Received coordinates relative to the viewport of the browser window.
View the test file hosted here: http://phrogz.net/SVG/html_location_in_svg_in_html.xhtml

The actual application was the desire to find the location in SVG coordinate space of embedded XHTML contents, in order to connect SVG elements to the embedded HTML contents, as seen here: http://phrogz.net/svg/html_location_in_svg.svg

The proposed technique is to translate the embedded HTML element coordinates into screen space (using getBoundingClientRect()) and then transform those coordinates into a local SVG space. This works as intended on Chrome/Safari.
This is the behavior the spec calls for, as far as I can tell.  In particular, http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom-view/#the-getclientrects-and-getboundingclientrect-methods says:

  The getClientRects() and getBoundingClientRect() methods provide information about the
  position of the border box edges of an element relative to the viewport.

and http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom-view/#viewport says:

  Viewport and initial containing block are defined by CSS 2.1 unless there is an
  ancestor foreignObject element in the http://www.w3.org/2000/svg namespace in which
  case that element acts as viewport and initial containing block.
Or in other words, the return value for getBoundingClientRect in a <foreignObject> is in the coordinate system of that <foreignObject>; you can then use its CTM to do whatever else you want as described in comment 1.
Wow…right you are. I totally missed that definition of viewport. Looks like it's Webkit at fault here. :)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Gavin, are you going to file a bug on WebKit, or should I?
Boris: I am planning on filing a bug. I think I could make a slightly clearer use case/repro case for them first.
Sounds good.  Thanks!
FWIW the corresponding Webkit bug is https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71819
Note also http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0629.html

Depending on the outcome of that, the spec (and our behavior) might change...

If you have thoughts on the issue, it'd be good to follow up on that mailing list.
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