<svg>

The svg element is a container that defines a new coordinate system and viewport. It is used as the outermost element of SVG documents, but it can also be used to embed an SVG fragment inside an SVG or HTML document.

Note: The xmlns attribute is only required on the outermost svg element of SVG documents. It is unnecessary for inner svg elements or inside HTML documents.

Example

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

<svg
  viewBox="0 0 300 100"
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
  stroke="red"
  fill="grey">
  <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" />
  <circle cx="150" cy="50" r="4" />

  <svg viewBox="0 0 10 10" x="200" width="100">
    <circle cx="5" cy="5" r="4" />
  </svg>
</svg>

Attributes

baseProfile Deprecated: The minimum SVG language profile that the document requires. Value type: <string> ; Default value: none; Animatable: no
contentScriptType Deprecated: The default scripting language used by the SVG fragment. Value type: <string> ; Default value: application/ecmascript; Animatable: no
contentStyleType Deprecated: The default style sheet language used by the SVG fragment. Value type: <string> ; Default value: text/css; Animatable: no
height: The displayed height of the rectangular viewport. (Not the height of its coordinate system.) Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes
preserveAspectRatio: How the svg fragment must be deformed if it is displayed with a different aspect ratio. Value type: (none| xMinYMin| xMidYMin| xMaxYMin| xMinYMid| xMidYMid| xMaxYMid| xMinYMax| xMidYMax| xMaxYMax) (meet|slice)? ; Default value: xMidYMid meet; Animatable: yes
version Deprecated: Which version of SVG is used for the inner content of the element. Value type: <number> ; Default value: none; Animatable: no
viewBox: The SVG viewport coordinates for the current SVG fragment. Value type: <list-of-numbers> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
width: The displayed width of the rectangular viewport. (Not the width of its coordinate system.) Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes
x: The displayed x coordinate of the svg container. No effect on outermost svg elements. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: 0; Animatable: yes
y: The displayed y coordinate of the svg container. No effect on outermost svg elements. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: 0; Animatable: yes

Note: Starting with SVG2, x, y, width, and height are Geometry Properties, meaning these attributes can also be used as CSS properties.

Global attributes

Core Attributes: Most notably: id, tabindex
Styling Attributes: class, style
Conditional Processing Attributes: Most notably: requiredExtensions, systemLanguage
Event Attributes: Global event attributes, Graphical event attributes, Document event attributes, Document element event attributes
Presentation Attributes: Most notably: clip-path, clip-rule, color, color-interpolation, color-rendering, cursor, display, fill, fill-opacity, fill-rule, filter, mask, opacity, pointer-events, shape-rendering, stroke, stroke-dasharray, stroke-dashoffset, stroke-linecap, stroke-linejoin, stroke-miterlimit, stroke-opacity, stroke-width, transform, vector-effect, visibility
Aria Attributes: aria-activedescendant, aria-atomic, aria-autocomplete, aria-busy, aria-checked, aria-colcount, aria-colindex, aria-colspan, aria-controls, aria-current, aria-describedby, aria-details, aria-disabled, aria-dropeffect, aria-errormessage, aria-expanded, aria-flowto, aria-grabbed, aria-haspopup, aria-hidden, aria-invalid, aria-keyshortcuts, aria-label, aria-labelledby, aria-level, aria-live, aria-modal, aria-multiline, aria-multiselectable, aria-orientation, aria-owns, aria-placeholder, aria-posinset, aria-pressed, aria-readonly, aria-relevant, aria-required, aria-roledescription, aria-rowcount, aria-rowindex, aria-rowspan, aria-selected, aria-setsize, aria-sort, aria-valuemax, aria-valuemin, aria-valuenow, aria-valuetext, role

Usage notes

Categories	Container element, Structural element
Permitted content	Any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements Shape elements Structural elements Gradient elements `<a>`, `<altGlyphDef>`, `<clipPath>`, `<color-profile>`, `<cursor>`, `<filter>`, `<font>`, `<font-face>`, `<foreignObject>`, `<image>`, `<marker>`, `<mask>`, `<pattern>`, `<script>`, `<style>`, `<switch>`, `<text>`, `<view>`

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # NewDocument

Browser compatibility

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