<text>
The SVG <text>
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.
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>
Attributes
x
-
The x coordinate of the starting point of the text baseline. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value:
0
; Animatable: yes y
-
The y coordinate of the starting point of the text baseline. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value:
0
; Animatable: yes dx
-
Shifts the text position horizontally from a previous text element. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
dy
-
Shifts the text position vertically from a previous text element. Value type: <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
textLength
attribute. 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
Global attributes
- Core Attributes
- Styling Attributes
class
,style
,font-family
,font-size
,font-size-adjust
,font-stretch
,font-style
,font-variant
,font-weight
- Conditional Processing Attributes
-
Most notably:
requiredExtensions
,systemLanguage
- Event Attributes
- Presentation Attributes
-
Most notably:
clip-path
,clip-rule
,color
,color-interpolation
,color-rendering
,cursor
,display
,dominant-baseline
,fill
,fill-opacity
,fill-rule
,filter
,mask
,opacity
,pointer-events
,shape-rendering
,stroke
,stroke-dasharray
,stroke-dashoffset
,stroke-linecap
,stroke-linejoin
,stroke-miterlimit
,stroke-opacity
,stroke-width
,text-anchor
,transform
,vector-effect
,visibility
- Aria Attributes
-
aria-activedescendant
,aria-atomic
,aria-autocomplete
,aria-busy
,aria-checked
,aria-colcount
,aria-colindex
,aria-colspan
,aria-controls
,aria-current
,aria-describedby
,aria-details
,aria-disabled
,aria-dropeffect
,aria-errormessage
,aria-expanded
,aria-flowto
,aria-grabbed
,aria-haspopup
,aria-hidden
,aria-invalid
,aria-keyshortcuts
,aria-label
,aria-labelledby
,aria-level
,aria-live
,aria-modal
,aria-multiline
,aria-multiselectable
,aria-orientation
,aria-owns
,aria-placeholder
,aria-posinset
,aria-pressed
,aria-readonly
,aria-relevant
,aria-required
,aria-roledescription
,aria-rowcount
,aria-rowindex
,aria-rowspan
,aria-selected
,aria-setsize
,aria-sort
,aria-valuemax
,aria-valuemin
,aria-valuenow
,aria-valuetext
,role
Usage notes
Categories | Graphics element, Text content element |
---|---|
Permitted content | Character data and any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements Text content child elements <a> |
Specifications
Specification |
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # TextElement |
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