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HTML
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/FileSaver.js/2014-11-29/FileSaver.js"></script>
<svg width="120" height="120" viewBox="0 0 120 120" id="mySVG">
<rect x="10" y="10" width="100" height="100" />
</svg>
CSS
svg >rect {
fill: yellow
}
/* this will fail, it could work with a check for document.querySelector instead of svg.querySelector, but that would just be a kill for performances with a lot of cssRules..., and would need to set the elements' style attribute instead of using a <style> tag */
body > svg >rect {
stroke: red
}
JavaScript
var exportSVG = function(svg) {
// first create a clone of our svg node so we don't mess the original one
var clone = svg.cloneNode(true);
// parse the styles
parseStyles(clone);
// create a doctype
var svgDocType = document.implementation.createDocumentType('svg', "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN", "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd");
// a fresh svg document
var svgDoc = document.implementation.createDocument('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'svg', svgDocType);
// replace the documentElement with our clone
svgDoc.replaceChild(clone, svgDoc.documentElement);
// get the data
var svgData = (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(svgDoc);
// now you've got your svg data, the following will depend on how you want to download it
// here I'll use FileSaver.js (https://github.com/yrezgui/FileSaver.js)
var blob = new Blob([svgData.replace(/></g, '>\n\r<')]);
saveAs(blob, 'myAwesomeSVG.svg');
};
var parseStyles = function(svg) {
var styleSheets = [];
var i;
// get the stylesheets of the document (ownerDocument in case svg is in <iframe> or <object>)
var docStyles = svg.ownerDocument.styleSheets;
// transform the live StyleSheetList to an array to avoid endless loop
for (i = 0; i < docStyles.length; i++) {
styleSheets.push(docStyles[i]);
}
if (!styleSheets.length) {
return;
}
var defs = svg.querySelector('defs') || document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'defs');
if (!defs.parentNode) {
svg.insertBefore(defs, svg.firstElementChild);
}
svg.matches = svg.matches || svg.webkitMatchesSelector || svg.mozMatchesSelector || svg.msMatchesSelector || svg.oMatchesSelector;
// iterate through all document's stylesheets
for (i = 0; i < styleSheets.length; i++) {
var currentStyle = styleSheets[i]
var rules;
try {
rules = currentStyle.cssRules;
} catch (e) {
continue;
}
// create a new style element
var style =...