Baseline Widely available *
The <text>
SVG 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.
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
This element implements the SVGTextElement
interface.
html,
body,
svg {
height: 100%;
}
<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>
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HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4