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To target the content of an svg document loaded inside an , or </code>, you need to pass the correct Document context to jQuery: the one you can access from the <code>.contentDocument</code> property of the embedding element.</p> <p>Note that this requires that the svg document has been loaded in a same-origin way, which is not possible in StackSnippets' null origined frames, so here is a <a href="https://plnkr.co/edit/PaGdoTwLj4ER5lvK?open=lib%2Fscript.js" rel="nofollow noreferrer">live plnkr</a>.</p> <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>$( "object" ).on( "load", (evt) => { const svg_doc = this.contentDocument; $( "a[href]", svg_doc ) // second argument is context .on( 'click', (evt) => { // add your listener here } ); }; </code></pre> <p>Also note that in your svg you have <code>xlink:href</code> attributes being defined, not just <code>href</code>, so your jQuery selector should be <code>'a[xlink\\:href^="#"]'</code></p> <hr /> <p>But if your goal is to set the anchors in you svg relative to an other base URL than the one the document is loaded from, then you don't need all this, you can simply insert an HTML <code><base></code> element at the beginning of your svg document and all the relative URLs will use it.<br /> See live demo as a <a href="https://plnkr.co/edit/2iJt6JbRDUP9yY42?open=lib%2Fscript.js" rel="nofollow noreferrer">plnkr</a> and a more complicated snippet:</p> <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true" data-babel="false"> <div class="snippet-code"> <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>// To be able to embed it in a StackSnippet (directly in this answer), // we need to generate the file in memory from JS // you don't need it const svg_content = ` <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 50 50" width="300" > <!-- we must declare it in the HTML namespace --> <base xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="https://google.com" /> <a href="#foo-bar"> <rect fill="green" x="10" y="10" width="30" height="30" /> </a> </svg> `; const svg_blob = new Blob( [ svg_content ], { type: "image/svg+xml" } ); const svg_url = URL.createObjectURL( svg_blob ); document.querySelector( "object" ).data = svg_url;</code></pre> <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><object></object></code></pre> </div> </div> </p>