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Hi everyone!

I am working on a project that requires animating a lot of elements on the page. I am trying to use SVG instead of Canvas, and thought of using <g> and <use> tags to keep the SVG code lightweight.

 

Basically, I am trying to copy paste the svg element and its animation, but placing it in a different position.

However, I can't seem to animate the <use> tag (see attached Codepen).

I tried adding an id="redCircle" to it too, but javascript doesn't seem to pick it up and won't animate it. 

 

Any help?

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Hey isseto,

 

Welcome to the forums!

 

It's late here and I am about to go to bed so, forgive me for the little amount of information.

 

Basically, SVG's x and y are not the same thing as GSAP's x and y. The reason your second red circle was not working was because you were tweening it to 0 in both x and y.

 

If you want to tween the x and y values of the SVG, you will need to use the attrPlugin. See bellow.

 

See the Pen PGjNzz?editors=1010 by dipscom (@dipscom) on CodePen

 

Also, if you are going to use the use tag, it's always best to wrap what you want your graphic to be into a symbol tag and put it in the defs tag, like so:

<symbol id="circle">
 <circle class="st0" cx="200" cy="100" r="54"/>
</symbol>

Here's MDN's entry on the matter:

 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/use

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