letter-spacing

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.

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The letter-spacing attribute controls spacing between text characters.

If the attribute value is a unitless number (like 128), the browser processes it as a <length> in the current user coordinate system.

If the attribute value has a unit identifier, such as .25em or 1%, then the browser converts the <length> into its corresponding value in the current user coordinate system.

Note: As a presentation attribute, letter-spacing also has a CSS property counterpart: letter-spacing. When both are specified, the CSS property takes priority.

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

Examples

Controlling SVG letter spacing

html

<svg viewBox="0 0 400 30" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text y="20" letter-spacing="2">Bigger letter-spacing</text>
  <text x="200" y="20" letter-spacing="-0.5">Smaller letter-spacing</text>
</svg>

Usage notes

Value	`normal` \| `<length>`
Default value	`normal`
Animatable	Yes

For a description of the values, please refer to the CSS letter-spacing property.

Specifications

Specification
CSS Text Module Level 3 # letter-spacing-property
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # LetterSpacingProperty

Browser compatibility

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`letter-spacing`	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 (Release date: 2004-11-09) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 3.5 (Release date: 1998-11-18) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 1 (Release date: 2003-06-23) 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 10.1 (Release date: 2010-11-09) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29) 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 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29) footnote Full support

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