How to use .svg files in a webpage?

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I want to know how can one actually use a .svg file In a web page?

Calorimeter answered 6/1, 2010 at 6:28 Comment(0)

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See svgweb quickstart and the svgweb project homepage for something that works in all browsers including IE (requires flash plugin).

There are many ways to include an existing svg file:

<img src="your.svg"/>
<object data="your.svg"/>
<iframe src="your.svg"/>
<embed src="your.svg"/>
<div style="background:url(your.svg)">...</div>

Yila answered 6/1, 2010 at 8:15 Comment(7)

My favorite is not in this list, just open your svg in a text editor and put its content inline into your html document, this will allow you to apply filters to it and style the svg image with css. – Bartko 23/9, 2013 at 21:2

@Bartko That works with <object> too. See "Using SVG as an <object>" at css-tricks.com/using-svg. – Ode 5/7, 2014 at 19:10

@Bartko How does that work with a background image? – Mitzi 27/2, 2016 at 15:50

Keep in mind that if you don't include it directly in your content document (like crisweb suggests) you might have something similar to FOUC with your svg making it look like it gets reloaded every time you switch a page. Important for header logos and the like. – Thionate 16/5, 2017 at 16:58

does any of these methods support changing of svg icon fill color property also? – Foucquet 29/6, 2018 at 13:4

@Erik Dahlström, how to display svg image correctly when we have uploaded our svg file to server and then using <img src="your.svg"/>. – Cider 5/11, 2018 at 12:34

@Ahmadmnzr verify that the server transmits the svg with the correct svg media type, 'image/svg+xml' – Hulse 9/11, 2018 at 12:18

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If all you want to do is to place an SVG image such as a logo or static diagram, you just need to be careful to provide a fallback for older versions of Internet Explorer (i.e. versions 8 and earlier).

The best and simplest method I've found is to use a .png or .jpg for your fallback, placed using a normal img tag. You then wrap the img tag in an object tag, using the data attribute to place the SVG.

<object data="/path-to/your-svg-image.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
  <img src="/path-to/your-fallback-image.png" />
</object>

The img fallback is only loaded and used if the browser doesn't understand SVG.

Gavrilla answered 30/10, 2012 at 4:9 Comment(1)

alternatively move the fallback into the CSS itself – Fletafletch 20/12, 2013 at 13:22

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I recommend putting the svg inline into your document (html5 technique). Just open your SVG file, copy the SVG tag and everything insideof it and then paste it into your html document.

<html>
    <body>
        <svg></svg>
    </body>
</html>

It has the advantage that this allows you to use css to style it, like changing the fill color or applying filters to it like blur. Another advantage is that you save one http request for fetching the svg file if it is inside of your document.

If you want for example to change its position using css, then you have to put the css inside of a style attribute. Styles that are in an external css file will not get applied in most browser as this is a security restriction. For example:

<svg id="mySVG" style="position: absolute; top: 200px; left: 200px;"></svg>

This technique is supported by all browsers except IE8 and below as well as the android 2.3 browser and below.

Read the chapter inline SVG for further details:

If you dont want to put it inline in your page then the best alternative seems to be the object tag and avoid using the embed tag.

Read this for further details about object vs embed vs img tag:

How to Add Scalable Vector Graphics to Your Web Page

Bartko answered 23/9, 2013 at 21:0 Comment(2)

Do you know of a way to automate this? Rather than copying from the SVG file and pasting into your HTML, is there a grunt plugin or something that can inject it into your page? – Lizarraga 7/4, 2014 at 15:23

nope sorry never heard of such a plugin, but maybe it exists – Bartko 19/4, 2014 at 17:28

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http://www.w3schools.com/svg/svg_inhtml.asp

The best example:

<embed src="rect.svg" width="300" height="100"
type="image/svg+xml"
pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/" />

Toy answered 6/1, 2010 at 6:30 Comment(6)

would this actually show the svg image on any browser? Thanks? – Calorimeter 6/1, 2010 at 6:35

Thanks, but whats the 'pluginspage' all about? can't catchup with that one? – Calorimeter 6/1, 2010 at 7:3

pluginspage tells the browser where to get a plugin if it can't display SVG files natively (e.g. Internet Explorer). – Toy 6/1, 2010 at 7:18

so the image would not be visiable If the user doesn't download the plugin? – Calorimeter 6/1, 2010 at 7:29

It would be visible to Firefox, Chrome and Safari users but Internet Explorer users will need to have to plugin installed. If that's a problem then code-zoop's solution does some fancy work to remove the plugin dependency. – Toy 6/1, 2010 at 8:26

Note that code-zoop's solution (RaphaelJS) "removes the plugin dependency" by not actually using SVG at all on IE. If you're looking specifically to display an "svg file", that is probably not going to help you. For SVG + all major browsers, IE users will need a plugin. – Ardath 7/2, 2010 at 5:57

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Caspar's approach is the proper one. However, I would move the fallback to the CSS, since you probably want to apply some styles to the svg file itself...

<object data="/path-to/your-svg-image.svg" type="image/svg+xml"  class="logo"> </object>

CSS

.no-svg .logo {
  width: 99px;
  height: 99px;
  background-image: url(/path-to/your-png-image.png);
}`

Fletafletch answered 20/12, 2013 at 13:26 Comment(0)

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Raphaël—JavaScript Library. Nice javascript library that is using svg, and gives you a large range of effects!

Also supports most browsers, including IE

Gratt answered 6/1, 2010 at 7:27 Comment(2)

that JS library url is broken btw – Pentagrid 28/3, 2018 at 21:52

I added the answer 8 years ago. But Hey, here you have the link to the github repo github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael – Gratt 28/3, 2018 at 21:54

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I'd like to agree with the answer from "code-zoop". Although this technically doesn't answer your question, it might also be a solution: enter the relevant data straight into the HTML. Either directly as an svg element, or by using Raphaël-JS.

From w3c-schools:

SVG is all suported in In Firefox, Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari you can

<html>
<body>

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
  <circle cx="100" cy="50" r="40" stroke="black"
  stroke-width="2" fill="red"/>
</svg>

</body>
</html>

(end of quote)

And to think even more outside the box, depending on how you want to use it, you can also put your 1-color graphics in a webfont. (see for example iconmoon.io )

Boyett answered 6/3, 2013 at 6:52 Comment(0)

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