javascript - Angular2 Renderer: Svg rect is rendered but not showing in page

Question

I want to create a bar chart using SVG with rect as the bar.

The related code as follows:

barchart-one.html

   <svg #svgone width="400" height="250" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 400 250">
    <g #abcd></g>
</svg>

barchart-one.ts

 import { Component, Renderer2, ViewChild, ElementRef } from '@angular/core';

    @Component({
    selector: 'barchart-one',
    templateUrl: 'barchart-one.html'
    })
    export class BarchartOneComponent {
    @ViewChild('abcd') 
    private abcd: ElementRef;  
    constructor(private renderer: Renderer2) {}

    ngAfterViewInit() {
        for (var i = 1; i < 8; i++) {
            let height = Math.floor(Math.random() * (140 - 110)) + 110;
            const rect = this.renderer.createElement('rect');
            this.renderer.setAttribute(rect, 'height', height);
            this.renderer.setAttribute(rect, 'rx', '6');
            this.renderer.setAttribute(rect, 'ry', '6');
            this.renderer.setAttribute(rect, 'width', '12');
            this.renderer.setAttribute(rect, 'x', (i*50)+20);
            this.renderer.setAttribute(rect, 'y', (220-height));
            this.renderer.appendChild(this.abcd.nativeElement, rect);
            console.log(rect);
        };
    }
    }

Result of svg render:

<g>


<rect height="126" rx="6" ry="6" width="12" x="70" y="94"></rect>
<rect height="122" rx="6" ry="6" width="12" x="120" y="98"></rect>
<rect height="124" rx="6" ry="6" width="12" x="170" y="96"></rect>
<rect height="116" rx="6" ry="6" width="12" x="220" y="104"></rect>
<rect height="139" rx="6" ry="6" width="12" x="270" y="81"></rect>
<rect height="123" rx="6" ry="6" width="12" x="320" y="97"></rect>
<rect height="137" rx="6" ry="6" width="12" x="370" y="83"></rect>
</g>

The expected result is not showing in page even though the code for rect is correctly rendered.

Answer 1

You cannot create SVG elements with createElement, you must use createElementNS and pass the SVG namespace i.e. http://www.w3.org/2000/svg as the first parameter.

this.renderer.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'rect');