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side

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The side attribute determines the side of a path the text is placed on (relative to the path direction).

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

Example

html
<svg viewBox="0 0 420 200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text>
    <textPath href="#circle1" side="left">Text left from the path</textPath>
  </text>
  <text>
    <textPath href="#circle2" side="right">Text right from the path</textPath>
  </text>

  <circle
    id="circle1"
    cx="100"
    cy="100"
    r="70"
    fill="transparent"
    stroke="silver" />
  <circle
    id="circle2"
    cx="320"
    cy="100"
    r="70"
    fill="transparent"
    stroke="silver" />
</svg>

Usage notes

Value left | right
Default value left
Animatable Yes
left

This value places the text on the left side of the path (relative to the path direction).

This value places the text on the right side of the path (relative to the path direction). This effectively reverses the path direction.

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2
# TextPathElementSideAttribute

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
side
Experimental
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 61 (Release date: 2018-06-26)
footnote Full support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – No support
Chrome Android
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 61 (Release date: 2018-06-26)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – No support
Opera Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – No support
Samsung Internet
footnote No support
WebView Android – No support
WebView Android
footnote No support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support

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Full support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.

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