style

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The style attribute allows to style an element using CSS declarations. It functions identically to the style attribute in HTML.

You can use this attribute with any SVG element.

Example

html,
body,
svg {
  height: 100%;
}

html

<svg viewBox="0 0 100 60" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <rect
    width="80"
    height="40"
    x="10"
    y="10"
    style="fill: skyblue; stroke: cadetblue; stroke-width: 2;" />
</svg>

Usage notes

Value	`<style>`
Default value	None
Animatable	No

<style>: The syntax of style data depends on the style sheet language. By default, the style sheet language is CSS.

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # ElementSpecificStyling

Browser compatibility

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