diff --git a/js/views/cfi_navigation_logic.js b/js/views/cfi_navigation_logic.js
index 43d9e75a7..5e17ec283 100644
--- a/js/views/cfi_navigation_logic.js
+++ b/js/views/cfi_navigation_logic.js
@@ -424,6 +424,17 @@ var CfiNavigationLogic = function(options) {
             clientRectList = range.getClientRects();
         } else {
             clientRectList = $el[0].getClientRects();
+
+            // If the element is something like this: <svg:svg ....><svg:image ....></svg:image></svg:svg> then the svg:image does not produce client rectangles; so we move to the
+            // enclosing svg tag and get those rectangles
+            try {
+                if (clientRectList.length === 0 && $el[0].ownerSVGElement) {
+                    clientRectList = $($el[0].ownerSVGElement)[0].getClientRects();
+                }
+            }
+            catch (e) {
+                // silently swallow up the error; apparently we can't get clientRectList s
+            }
         }
 
         // all the separate rectangles (for detecting position of the element
diff --git a/readium-cfi-js b/readium-cfi-js
index 37ca4bc92..74c9eb365 160000
--- a/readium-cfi-js
+++ b/readium-cfi-js
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 37ca4bc9266c349cfca8f84e43e86ea81bcc5f57
+Subproject commit 74c9eb365460fd28a884a639a4a039d09a931f70