How do I scale a stubborn SVG embedded with the <object> tag?

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I have some SVG files that specifies width and height as well as viewbox like this: 

<svg width="576pt" height="432pt" viewBox="0 0 576 432" > ...

but how to display them in the browser at a size I decide? I want them smaller and have tried:

<object width="400" data="image.svg"></object>

but then I get visible scrollbars.

It works if I change the SVG files to set width and height to 100% instead, but I want to decide the size in the HTML regardless of what sizes are used in the SVG file. Is this possible ?

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9 Answers

You can reach into the embedded svg using JavaScript:

var svg = document.getElementsByTagName('object')[0].\
  contentDocument.getElementsByTagName('svg')[0];
svg.removeAttribute('width');
svg.removeAttribute('height');

Since your svg already has a viewBox, Firefox should scale the 576 pixel width in the viewBox to the 400 pixel width in your document. Other svgs might benefit from a new viewBox derived from the advertised width and height (these are often the same numbers). Other browsers might benefit from different svg tweaks.

user_363300

Just use CSS to make the browser resize the SVG! Like so: <object style="width:30%"> See http://www.vlado-do.de/svg_test/ for more details. I just also tried it locally with an SVG that has its width and height given in "pt". It works well in Firefox.

user_12473500

Let see. I had to refresh my memory on SVG, I haven't used it much these years.

From what I found today, it seems that if you specify dimension of objects without units, they have a fixed size (in pixels, I think). Apparently, then, there is no way to resize them when you resize the SVG (it only change the viewport/canvas size).

Unless, as pointed out, you specify the size of the SVG in percentage OR specify a viewBox (eg. viewBox="0 0 600 500").

Now, if you have no way to change the exported SVG, you are out of luck, I fear. What library do you use?

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