Trying to put a border around some SVG text, and I am getting varying results.
HTML: (with the mute class)
To draw a rect around text on click, update the code to:
var svgcanvas = d3.select('svg');
$("#xc").on("click", function (d) {
var selection = d3.select(this);
var rect = this.getBBox();
var offset = 2; // enlarge rect box 2 px on left & right side
selection.classed("mute", (selection.classed("mute") ? false : true));
pathinfo = [
{x: rect.x-offset, y: rect.y },
{x: rect.x+offset + rect.width, y: rect.y},
{x: rect.x+offset + rect.width, y: rect.y + rect.height },
{x: rect.x-offset, y: rect.y + rect.height},
{x: rect.x-offset, y: rect.y },
];
// Specify the function for generating path data
var d3line = d3.svg.line()
.x(function(d){return d.x;})
.y(function(d){return d.y;})
.interpolate("linear");
// Draw the line
svgcanvas.append("svg:path")
.attr("d", d3line(pathinfo))
.style("stroke-width", 1)
.style("stroke", "red")
.style("fill", "none");
})
On this html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
</head>
<body>
<svg width="720" height="720">
<text x="37.5" y="37.5" id="xc">X</text>
</svg>
</body>
</html>
SVG elements don't support the CSS border property as you have discovered. Your options are
<rect>
around the text as a border<svg>
element if its parent is a html element. The outer <svg>
element is a replaced element and will support the CSS border property.