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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 <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.
Usage context
| Categories | Graphics element, Text content element |
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| Permitted content | Character data and any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements Text content child elements <a> |
Attributes
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
textLengthattribute. 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
DOM Interface
This element implements the SVGTextElement interface.
Example
html
<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>
Specifications
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| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # TextElement |
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