<text>

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

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

html
<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

CategoriesGraphics element, Text content element
Permitted contentCharacter data and any number of the following elements, in any order:
Animation elements
Descriptive elements
Text content child elements
<a>

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# TextElement

Browser compatibility

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See also