jQuery SVG Pan Zoom is a jQuery plugin that enables zoom and panning a SVG image with the mouse or programatically

This plugin does not create any kind of controls on top of your SVG, but you can easily create your own and call the plugin methods if so desired. It also only works with SVGs inlined in the HTML

jQuery SVG Pan is available on GitHub

Example1

Example2

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