# UI-SVG attributeValue of an attributeName?

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-svg-attributevalue-of-an-attributename/24445
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [8 April 2020 09:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-svg-attributevalue-of-an-attributename/24445 "2020-04-08T09:29:05Z")
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### Author: ![BartButenaers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bartbutenaers/32/10476_2.png) [@BartButenaers](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BartButenaers)
#### Post date: [8 April 2020 15:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-svg-attributevalue-of-an-attributename/24445/11 "2020-04-08T15:12:56Z")

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> [@Steve-Mcl](#):
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> (client side) animations that may have changed a style or attribute value of the DOM - I was considering node-red would query the SVG in the singular server-side

And that is why I tagged you Steve 😉

- I was indeed thinking about getting all the information from the _ **client-side** _ DOM tree:

- But like you say, the information could also be get on the _ **server-side** _. Something like this I assume:

And then indeed there is also the problem of the animated values. But I think we can use the [animVal](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SVGAnimatedString/animVal) instead of the baseVal for animated attributes??

Anyway seems quite some work to me. Although I understand that it could be useful...

Any thoughts?

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