### Author:  [@thesandrobrito](https://discourse.processing.org/u/thesandrobrito)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/get-all-children-from-svg/29932/1 "2021-05-07T08:26:40Z")
Hi Everyone.
I came back to processing after a few years of not coding anything and I am struggling with something I think I could do before.
I’m looking to draw SVGs with the flexibility of changing the colours of the elements inside. Because different SVGs have different amount of elements I need to be able to fetch those elements dynamically.
I know I can get a set of elements by using getChild(“Name”) but that works when I have the names only.
I’ve arrived at this code which prints separate graphic elements but for some reason, it’s not drawing them. This example uses very common the bot1.svg
```auto
import processing.svg.*;
PShape[] children;
PShape sh;
void setup() {
size(800, 800);
sh = loadShape("bot1.svg");
shapeMode(CENTER);
strokeWeight(1);
}
void draw(){
children = new PShape[sh.getChildCount()];
push();
translate(width/2, height/2);
//shape(sh,0,0,400,400);
//children = sh.getChildren();
for (int s = 0 ; s
### Author:  [@matheplica](https://discourse.processing.org/u/matheplica)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/get-all-children-from-svg/29932/2 "2021-05-07T10:42:57Z")
Try this in your setup :
```auto
sh = loadShape("bot1.svg");
sh.disableStyle();
children = sh.getChildren();
```
and in your draw
```auto
shape(children[s], 0, 0, 100, 100);
```
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### Author:  [@thesandrobrito](https://discourse.processing.org/u/thesandrobrito)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 10:44am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/get-all-children-from-svg/29932/3 "2021-05-07T10:44:44Z")
How would it work if I am changing the original svg in the draw from a pool of svgs (which I didn’t specify as my requirement, but that’s the end goal)
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### Author:  [@thesandrobrito](https://discourse.processing.org/u/thesandrobrito)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/get-all-children-from-svg/29932/4 "2021-05-07T10:47:49Z")
> [@matheplica](#):
>
> ```auto
> sh = loadShape("bot1.svg");
> sh.disableStyle();
> children = sh.getChildren();
>
> ```
Unfortunately didn’t work.
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### Author:  [@matheplica](https://discourse.processing.org/u/matheplica)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 11:06am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/get-all-children-from-svg/29932/5 "2021-05-07T11:06:05Z")
First question : put this code in a function than you use when you need
Second question : it’s maybe the structure of your .svg that have too many node,
if you can make it simplest as possible
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### Author:  [@thesandrobrito](https://discourse.processing.org/u/thesandrobrito)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/get-all-children-from-svg/29932/6 "2021-05-07T11:15:34Z")
Tried this simpler one [tram-01.svg - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/10zI-01WYnTC5GJG4OFSXAhsNB-RgmXZG/view?usp=sharing) and still didn’t work.
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### Author:  [@matheplica](https://discourse.processing.org/u/matheplica)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/get-all-children-from-svg/29932/7 "2021-05-07T11:23:56Z")
This work for me :
```auto
PShape sh;
PShape[] children;
void setup() {
size(256, 256);
sh = loadShape("tram-01.svg");
sh.disableStyle();
children = sh.getChildren();
}
void draw() {
for(int s=0; s
### Author:  [@thesandrobrito](https://discourse.processing.org/u/thesandrobrito)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/get-all-children-from-svg/29932/8 "2021-05-07T11:33:32Z")
> [@matheplica](#):
>
> ```auto
> PShape sh;
> PShape[] children;
> void setup() {
> size(256, 256);
> sh = loadShape("tram-01.svg");
> sh.disableStyle();
> children = sh.getChildren();
> }
> void draw() {
> for(int s=0; s shape(children[s], 0, 0);
> }
> }
>
> ```
I must’ve been doing something wrong. That works for me too!
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### Author:  [@thesandrobrito](https://discourse.processing.org/u/thesandrobrito)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/get-all-children-from-svg/29932/9 "2021-05-07T11:36:32Z")
I understand why it wasn’t working. This is a problem I’ve been having too. For some reason shape doesn’t allow size when drawing children.