<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, or inside HTML documents with XML serialization. It is unnecessary for inner svg
elements or inside HTML documents with HTML serialization.
Example
html
<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
- 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> , <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 |
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