<text>
The SVG <text>
element draws a graphics element consisting of text. It's possible to apply a gradient, pattern, clipping path, mask, or filter to <text>
, like any other SVG graphics element.
If text is included in SVG not inside of a <text>
element, it is not rendered. This is different than being hidden by default, as setting the display
property won't show the text.
Note: The <text>
element does not wrap by default, to make this happen it needs to be styled with the white-space
CSS property.
Example
<svg viewBox="0 0 240 80" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<style>
.small {
font: italic 13px sans-serif;
}
.heavy {
font: bold 30px sans-serif;
}
/* Note that the color of the text is set with the *
* fill property, the color property is for HTML only */
.Rrrrr {
font: italic 40px serif;
fill: red;
}
</style>
<text x="20" y="35" class="small">My</text>
<text x="40" y="35" class="heavy">cat</text>
<text x="55" y="55" class="small">is</text>
<text x="65" y="55" class="Rrrrr">Grumpy!</text>
</svg>
Attributes
x
-
The x coordinate of the starting point of the text baseline, or the x coordinate of each individual glyph if a list of values is provided. Value type: List of (<length>|<percentage>) ; Default value:
0
; Animatable: yes y
-
The y coordinate of the starting point of the text baseline, or the y coordinate of each individual glyph if a list of values is provided. Value type: List of (<length>|<percentage>) ; Default value:
0
; Animatable: yes dx
-
Shifts the text position horizontally from a previous text element, or shifts the position of each individual glyph if a list of values is provided. Value type: List of (<length>|<percentage>) ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
dy
-
Shifts the text position vertically from a previous text element, or shifts the position of each individual glyph if a list of values is provided. Value type: List of (<length>|<percentage>) ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
rotate
-
Rotates orientation of each individual glyph. Can rotate glyphs individually. Value type: <list-of-number> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
lengthAdjust
-
How the text is stretched or compressed to fit the width defined by the
textLength
attribute. Value type:spacing
|spacingAndGlyphs
; Default value:spacing
; Animatable: yes textLength
-
A width that the text should be scaled to fit. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
Usage context
Categories | Graphics element, Text content element |
---|---|
Permitted content | Character data and any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements Text content child elements <a> |
Specifications
Specification |
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # TextElement |
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