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CSS Master, 3rd Edition
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CSS Master, 3rd Edition

by Tiffany B Brown
August 2021
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
9h 39m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 12: SVG

So far, we’ve talked about using CSS with HTML, but we can also use CSS with SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics. SVG is a markup format for describing flat, two-dimensional images. Because it’s a markup language, it has a Document Object Model, and can be used with CSS.

By using CSS with SVG, we can change the appearance of SVG based on user interaction. Or we can use the same SVG document in multiple places, and show or hide portions of it based on the width of the viewport.

All major browser engines support the SVG 1.1 specification, and they have done for years. Support for features of SVG 2, on the other hand, is still a work in progress. Some of what we’ll discuss here has limited browser support at the time of writing. That ...

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