<tspan>

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 <tspan> element defines a subtext within a <text> element or another <tspan> element. It allows for adjustment of the style and/or position of that subtext as needed.

Note: The <tspan> element does not wrap by default, to make this happen it needs to be styled with the white-space CSS property.

Example

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

html

<svg viewBox="0 0 240 40" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <style>
    text {
      font: italic 12px serif;
    }
    tspan {
      font: bold 10px sans-serif;
      fill: red;
    }
  </style>

  <text x="10" y="30" class="small">
    You are
    <tspan>not</tspan>
    a banana!
  </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	Text content element, Text content child element
Permitted content	Character data and any number of the following elements, in any order: Descriptive elements `<a>`, `<animate>`, `<set>`, `<tref>`, `<tspan>`

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # TextElement

Browser compatibility

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