function getTransformation(transform) {
// Create a dummy g for calculation purposes only. This will never
// be appended to the DOM and will be discarded once this function
// returns.
var g = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "g");
// Set the transform attribute to the provided string value.
g.setAttributeNS(null, "transform", transform);
// consolidate the SVGTransformList containing all transformations
// to a single SVGTransform of type SVG_TRANSFORM_MATRIX and get
// its SVGMatrix.
var matrix = g.transform.baseVal.consolidate().matrix;
// Below calculations are taken and adapted from the private function
// transform/decompose.js of D3's module d3-interpolate.
var {a, b, c, d, e, f} = matrix; // ES6, if this doesn't work, use below assignment
// var a=matrix.a, b=matrix.b, c=matrix.c, d=matrix.d, e=matrix.e, f=matrix.f; // ES5
var scaleX, scaleY, skewX;
if (scaleX = Math.sqrt(a * a + b * b)) a /= scaleX, b /= scaleX;
if (skewX = a * c + b * d) c -= a * skewX, d -= b * skewX;
if (scaleY = Math.sqrt(c * c + d * d)) c /= scaleY, d /= scaleY, skewX /= scaleY;
if (a * d < b * c) a = -a, b = -b, skewX = -skewX, scaleX = -scaleX;
return {
translateX: e,
translateY: f,
rotate: Math.atan2(b, a) * 180 / Math.PI,
skewX: Math.atan(skewX) * 180 / Math.PI,
scaleX: scaleX,
scaleY: scaleY
};
}
console.log(getTransformation("translate(20,30)"));
console.log(getTransformation("rotate(45) skewX(20) translate(20,30) translate(-5,40)"));