Access to svg through jquery in IE 8

Question

I am looking for a way to use jquery to manipulate SVG paths in IE8, currently I am using the following syntax and works fine in IE9+

$('svg path.someClass').css({fill:'rgb(0,0,0)'});

Is there a way I can achieve this?

Thanks for your support

Answer 1

As IE8 doesn't support SVG, I'd say no, you can't do that. You could possibly make IE8 at least understand that the SVG elements were elements (by using the createElement trick in the head that people use for HTML5 elements so it at least doesn't think they're completely alien), but they won't be displayed properly, so manipulating them probably doesn't make much sense.