<image>
Baseline
Widely available
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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
The <image> SVG element includes images inside SVG documents. It can display raster image files or other SVG files.
The only image formats SVG software must support are JPEG, PNG, and other SVG files. Animated GIF behavior is undefined.
SVG files displayed with <image> are treated as an image: external resources aren't loaded, :visited styles aren't applied, and they cannot be interactive. To include dynamic SVG elements, try <use> with an external URL. To include SVG files and run scripts inside them, try <object> inside of <foreignObject>.
Note:
The HTML spec defines <image> as a synonym for <img> while parsing HTML. This specific element and its behavior only apply inside SVG documents or inline SVGs.
Usage context
| Categories | Graphics element, Graphics referencing element, Renderable element |
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| Permitted content | Any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements <animate>, <animateMotion>, <animateTransform>, <script>, <set>, <style> |
Attributes
x-
Positions the image horizontally from the origin. Value type: <length> | <percentage>; Default value:
0; Animatable: yes y-
Positions the image vertically from the origin. Value type: <length> | <percentage>; Default value:
0; Animatable: yes width-
The width the image renders at. Unlike HTML's
<img>, this attribute is required. Value type: <length> | <percentage>; Default value:auto; Animatable: yes height-
The height the image renders at. Unlike HTML's
<img>, this attribute is required. Value type: <length> | <percentage>; Default value:auto; Animatable: yes href-
Points at a URL for the image file. Value type: <URL>; Default value: none; Animatable: no
preserveAspectRatio-
Controls how the image is scaled. Value type: (
none|xMinYMin|xMidYMin|xMaxYMin|xMinYMid|xMidYMid|xMaxYMid|xMinYMax|xMidYMax|xMaxYMax) (meet|slice)?; Default value:xMidYMid meet; Animatable: yes crossorigin-
Defines the value of the credentials flag for CORS requests. Value type: [
anonymous|use-credentials]?; Default value: None; Animatable: yes decoding-
Provides a hint to the browser as to whether it should perform image decoding synchronously or asynchronously. Value type:
async | sync | auto; Default value:auto; Animatable: yes fetchpriority-
Provides a hint of the relative priority to use when fetching an external image. Allowed values:
high-
Fetches the external image at a high priority relative to other external resources.
low-
Fetches the external image at a low priority relative to other external resources.
auto-
Doesn't set a preference for the fetch priority. It is used if no value or an invalid value is set. This is the default.
xlink:href-
Points at a URL for the image file. Value type: <URL>; Default value: none; Animatable: no
DOM Interface
This element implements the SVGImageElement interface.
Example
Basic rendering of a PNG image in SVG:
SVG
<svg width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<image href="mdn_logo_only_color.png" height="200" width="200" />
</svg>
Result
Specifications
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| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # ImageElement |
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- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Non-standard. Check cross-browser support before using.
- Deprecated. Not for use in new websites.
See also
fetchpriorityattribute