lengthAdjust

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.

See full compatibility

The lengthAdjust attribute controls how the text is stretched into the length defined by the textLength attribute.

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

Example

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

html

<svg width="300" height="150" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <g font-face="sans-serif">
    <text x="0" y="20" textLength="300" lengthAdjust="spacing">
      Stretched using spacing only.
    </text>
    <text x="0" y="50" textLength="300" lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs">
      Stretched using spacing and glyphs.
    </text>
    <text x="0" y="80" textLength="100" lengthAdjust="spacing">
      Shrunk using spacing only.
    </text>
    <text x="0" y="110" textLength="100" lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs">
      Shrunk using spacing and glyphs.
    </text>
  </g>
</svg>

Usage notes

Value	`spacing` \| `spacingAndGlyphs`
Default value	`spacing`
Animatable	Yes

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # TextElementLengthAdjustAttribute

Browser compatibility

svg.elements.text.lengthAdjust

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`lengthAdjust`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 1.5 (Release date: 2005-11-29) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 3 (Release date: 2007-10-26) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29) footnote Full support	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 14 (Release date: 2013-05-21) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 2 (Release date: 2008-07-11) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 2 (Release date: 2008-07-11) footnote Full support

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Full support: Full support

svg.elements.tspan.lengthAdjust

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`lengthAdjust`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15) footnote Full support	Firefox – No support Firefox footnote footnote See bug 890692	Opera – Full support Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 3 (Release date: 2007-10-26) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – No support Firefox for Android footnote footnote See bug 890692	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 14 (Release date: 2013-05-21) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 2 (Release date: 2008-07-11) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 2 (Release date: 2008-07-11) footnote Full support