side

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The side attribute determines the side of a path the text is placed on (relative to the path direction).

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

<textPath>

Example

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

text {
  font:
    25px "Helvetica",
    "Arial",
    sans-serif;
}

html

<svg viewBox="0 0 420 200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text>
    <textPath href="#circle1" side="left">Text left from the path</textPath>
  </text>
  <text>
    <textPath href="#circle2" side="right">Text right from the path</textPath>
  </text>

  <circle
    id="circle1"
    cx="100"
    cy="100"
    r="70"
    fill="transparent"
    stroke="silver" />
  <circle
    id="circle2"
    cx="320"
    cy="100"
    r="70"
    fill="transparent"
    stroke="silver" />
</svg>

Usage notes

Value	`left` \| `right`
Default value	`left`
Animatable	Yes

left: This value places the text on the left side of the path (relative to the path direction).
right: This value places the text on the right side of the path (relative to the path direction). This effectively reverses the path direction.

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # TextPathElementSideAttribute

Browser compatibility

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