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Asked: 2026-05-27T10:55:24+00:00

I have an SVG file, and I don’t want to paste it inside the

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I have an SVG file, and I don’t want to paste it inside the HTML file because, well, it gets messy.
So after consulting with w3schools, “embed” tag seemed the safest way to include an external SVG file into HTML.

<embed src="path_to_svg" type="image/svg+xml" id='svgsource' />

However, I need to access the svg elements through DOM via javascript in the main html file. Unfortunately neither

document.getElementById('my_svg_id')

nor

document.getElementById('svgsource').contentDocument

works in any browser. Using “object” tag doesn’t do the trick either.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Complete about turn!

    Turns out you can, see this link: http://xn--dahlstrm-t4a.net/svg/html/get-embedded-svg-document-script.html

    (Also, go and up vote some of Erik Dahlström’s other answers to give him some points for me hijacking his answer!)

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