Playing with an SVG of my old logo
How hard is it to add an SVG element that makes use of the USE element to place another instance of an SVG symbol into a document using JavaScript? Turns out, it's tough. At least for me at this time. So instead I made my old logo animate when hovered over. This probably won't work on mobile, but at this moment that's ok.
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HTML and JS
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<section class="code-block">
<svg class="head-svg">
<use xlink:href="#head" />
</svg>
</section>
<script>
/* Variables */
const bodyElement = document.getElementsByTagName('body');
const faceBtn = document.querySelector('.head-svg');
/* Functions */
function randomNum(minnum, maxnum) {
min = Math.ceil(minnum);
max = Math.floor(maxnum);
return Math.floor(Math.random() * (maxnum - minnum) + minnum);
}
function faceMaker() {
let svgElem = document.createElementNS('http://http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'svg');
let useElem = document.createElementNS('http://http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'use');
useElem.setAttributeNS('https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink', 'xlink:href', '#head');
svgElem.setAttribute('class','svg-head');
let posY = randomNum(97, 100);
let posX = randomNum(12, 88);
svgElem.setAttribute('width', '150');
svgElem.setAttribute('height', '210');
svgElem.setAttribute('style', `top: ${posY}; left: ${posX};`);
svgElem.appendChild(useElem);
document.body.appendChild(svgElem);
console.log(`face added at ${posY} and ${posX}`);
};
/* Events */
faceBtn.addEventListener('click', () => {
faceMaker();
});
</script>CSS
#logo {
display: none;
}
#head:hover > #leftEye, #head:hover > #rightEye, #head:hover > #outline, #head:hover > #eyebrows, #head:hover > #noseMouth {
transition: fill .25s ease-out, stroke .3s ease-in;
fill: transparent;
stroke: black;
stroke-width: 1px;
stroke-opacity: .5;
}
.head-svg {
width: 150px;
height: 210px;
position: relative;
}
@supports (display: grid) {
.code-block {
display: grid;
place-items: center;
}
}