<svg>

The svg element is a container that defines a new coordinate system and viewport. It is used as the outermost element of SVG documents, but it can also be used to embed a SVG fragment inside an SVG or HTML document.

html,body,svg { height:100% }

<svg viewBox="0 0 300 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" stroke="red" fill="grey">
  <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" />
  <circle cx="150" cy="50" r="4" />

  <svg viewBox="0 0 10 10" x="200" width="100">
    <circle cx="5" cy="5" r="4" />
  </svg>
</svg>

Attributes

baseProfile Deprecated since SVG 2

The minimum SVG language profile that the document requires.
Value type: <string> ; Default value: none; Animatable: no

contentScriptType Deprecated since SVG 2

The default scripting language used by the SVG fragment.
Value type: <string> ; Default value: application/ecmascript; Animatable: no

contentStyleType Deprecated since SVG 2

The default style sheet language used by the SVG fragment.
Value type: <string> ; Default value: text/css; Animatable: no

height

The displayed height of the rectangular viewport. (Not the height of its coordinate system.)
Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes

preserveAspectRatio

How the svg fragment must be deformed if it is displayed with a different aspect ratio.
Value type: (none| xMinYMin| xMidYMin| xMaxYMin| xMinYMid| xMidYMid| xMaxYMid| xMinYMax| xMidYMax| xMaxYMax) (meet|slice)? ; Default value: xMidYMid meet; Animatable: yes

version Deprecated since SVG 2

Which version of SVG is used for the inner content of the element.
Value type: <number> ; Default value: none; Animatable: no

viewBox

The SVG viewport coordinates for the current SVG fragment.
Value type: <list-of-numbers> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes

width

The displayed width of the rectangular viewport. (Not the width of its coordinate system.)
Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes

x

The displayed x coordinate of the svg container. No effect on outermost svg elements.
Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: 0; Animatable: yes

y

The displayed y coordinate of the svg container. No effect on outermost svg elements.
Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: 0; Animatable: yes

Global attributes

Core Attributes

Most notably: id, tabindex

Styling Attributes

class, style

Conditional Processing Attributes

Most notably: requiredExtensions, systemLanguage

Event Attributes

Global event attributes, Graphical event attributes, Document event attributes, Document element event attributes

Presentation Attributes

Most notably: clip-path, clip-rule, color, color-interpolation, color-rendering, cursor, display, fill, fill-opacity, fill-rule, filter, mask, opacity, pointer-events, shape-rendering, stroke, stroke-dasharray, stroke-dashoffset, stroke-linecap, stroke-linejoin, stroke-miterlimit, stroke-opacity, stroke-width, transform, vector-effect, visibility

Aria Attributes

aria-activedescendant, aria-atomic, aria-autocomplete, aria-busy, aria-checked, aria-colcount, aria-colindex, aria-colspan, aria-controls, aria-current, aria-describedby, aria-details, aria-disabled, aria-dropeffect, aria-errormessage, aria-expanded, aria-flowto, aria-grabbed, aria-haspopup, aria-hidden, aria-invalid, aria-keyshortcuts, aria-label, aria-labelledby, aria-level, aria-live, aria-modal, aria-multiline, aria-multiselectable, aria-orientation, aria-owns, aria-placeholder, aria-posinset, aria-pressed, aria-readonly, aria-relevant, aria-required, aria-roledescription, aria-rowcount, aria-rowindex, aria-rowspan, aria-selected, aria-setsize, aria-sort, aria-valuemax, aria-valuemin, aria-valuenow, aria-valuetext, role

Usage notes

Specifications

Browser compatibility