Rendering order / children

[Scheit Christoph <ch...@siemens.com>]

Hello!

 

I want to create child-nodes for an element, let's say a rectangle.

 

1)

elem.appendChild(rect); // rect is the new, elem an already exising
rectangle

 

If I try like this, it doesn't work (i.e.the child is not rendered!?!)

 

If I just add it to the root element

 

2)

svgDoc.getDocumentElement().appendChild(rect);

 

 

it works (but they are not children, what I want to have since they are
logically related in the application).

 

Is there any possibility to do it like in example 1) ??

 

Thank you very much,

 

Christoph

Re: Rendering order / children

[Thomas DeWeese <Th...@Kodak.com>]

Hi Christoph,

Scheit Christoph wrote:

> I want to create child-nodes for an element, let’s say a rectangle.

    Rectangles can't have child graphics nodes.  Mostly just
'g', 'svg' and 'symbol' elements can have child graphics nodes.

> 1) elem.appendChild(rect); 
> // rect is the new, elem an already exising rectangle

    You might try:
	elem.getParentNode().appendChild(rect);

    This will make the new rect a sibling of 'elem'.
You can also use:

    elem.getParentNode().insertBefore(rect, elem.getNextSibling());

    To make sure rect is the very next sibling of elem.

> If I just add it to the root element

> 2) svgDoc.getDocumentElement().appendChild(rect);

> it works (but they are not children, what I want to have since they are 
> logically related in the application).
> 
> Is there any possibility to do it like in example 1) ??

    I think you really want them to be siblings not parent child.

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