Mar 5, 2013 · SVG is an image format for vector graphics. It literally means Scalable Vector Graphics. Basically, what you work with in Adobe Illustrator. You can use SVG on the web pretty easily, but there is plenty you should know. Why use SVG at all? Design something in Adobe Illustrator. Here’s a Kiwi bird standing on an oval.

Mar 18, 2025 · This page illustrates the application of CSS to the specialized language for creating graphics: SVG.

SVG images can be created with any text editor, or with a drawing program, like Inkscape. For you to learn the concept and basics of SVG, this tutorial will just use plain text to teach you SVG. The next page shows how to embed an SVG image directly into an HTML page!

Nov 16, 2020 · There are several different ways to use SVG images in CSS and HTML. We will explore six different methods in this tutorial. 1. How to use an SVG as an <img> This method is the simplest way to add SVG images to a webpage. To use this method, add the <img> element to your HTML document and reference it in the src attribute, like this:

Aug 12, 2024 · SVG has its own set of elements, attributes and properties to the extent that inline SVG code can get long and complex. By leveraging CSS and some of the forthcoming features of the SVG 2 specification, we can reduce that code for cleaner markup.

Recognizing this, the CSS working group has separated all the 3D transformation functions into a CSS Transforms Level 2 module. A three-dimensional transformation consists of two steps: Transformation functions that manipulate the plane on which your graphic is drawn, in a theoretical 3D space.

Mar 18, 2025 · The second edition of SVG 1.1 became a Recommendation in 2011. "Full" SVG 1.2 was meant to be the next major release of SVG. It was dropped for the upcoming SVG 2.0, which is under heavy development right now and follows a similar approach to CSS 3 in that it splits components into several loosely coupled specifications.

This chapter covers how to use CSS styles to modify your SVG graphics, and how to reference SVG images and elements in CSS code used to style HTML.

Jan 4, 2019 · Since April 2017, CSS Level 3 Fill and Stroke Module allow SVG colors and fill patterns to be set from an external stylesheet, instead of setting attributes on each element. In this tutorial, we will use a simple plain hex color, but both fill and stroke properties also accept patterns, gradients and images as values.

The book Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5 is a guide to scalable vector graphics in web sites: how they should work, how they do work, and how to work around the parts that don't work. It's a big topic, and we couldn't fit everything we wanted to say in the book.