spacing

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

The spacing attribute indicates how the user agent should determine the spacing between typographic characters that are to be rendered along a path.

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

Usage notes

Value auto | exact
Default value exact
Animatable Yes
auto

This value indicates that the user agent should use text-on-a-path layout algorithms to adjust the spacing between typographic characters in order to achieve visually appealing results.

exact

This value indicates that the typographic characters should be rendered exactly according to the spacing rules as specified by the layout rules for text-on-a-path.

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# TextPathElementSpacingAttribute

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
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