<ellipse>

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

The <ellipse> SVG element is an SVG basic shape, used to create ellipses based on a center coordinate, and both their x and y radius.

Note: Ellipses are unable to specify the exact orientation of the ellipse (if, for example, you wanted to draw an ellipse tilted at a 45 degree angle), but it can be rotated by using the transform attribute.

Usage context

Categories	Basic shape element, Graphics element, Shape element
Permitted content	Any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements

Attributes

cx: The x position of the center of the ellipse. Value type: <length> | <percentage>; Default value: 0; Animatable: yes
cy: The y position of the center of the ellipse. Value type: <length> | <percentage>; Default value: 0; Animatable: yes
rx: The radius of the ellipse on the x axis. Value type: auto | <length> | <percentage>; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes
ry: The radius of the ellipse on the y axis. Value type: auto | <length> | <percentage>; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes
pathLength: This attribute lets specify the total length for the path, in user units. Value type: <number>; Default value: none; Animatable: yes

Note: Starting with SVG2 cx, cy, rx and ry are Geometry Properties, meaning those attributes can also be used as CSS properties for that element.

Example

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

html

<svg viewBox="0 0 200 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <ellipse cx="100" cy="50" rx="100" ry="50" />
</svg>

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # EllipseElement

Browser compatibility

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