Question

I am currently working with raphael.js, is it possible to get the maximal coordinates (the four corners for instance in a square) of a path based raphael object ?

Answer 1

I think you want to use the bounding box – getBBox();

var p = paper.path(['M', 10, 10, 'l', 30, 30, 'a', 20, 30, 0, 1, 0, 40, 10, 'a', 20, 30, 0, 1, 0, 40, 10, 'l', -15, -18]);
var bb = p.getBBox();
paper.rect(bb.x,bb.y,bb.width,bb.height).attr({"stroke":"red"});

You’ll find an example in this fiddle

Does that help?