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Designing SVG Web Graphics
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Designing SVG Web Graphics

by Andrew H. Watt
September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
11h 42m
English
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The <polyline> Element

A <polyline> element can create any shape that consists of only straight lines drawn sequentially. The following simple example draws three sides of the rectangle you created in an earlier example. If you omit any mention of the fill property, a black and fully opaque fill is inserted. In this example (illustrated in Figure 03.14), I have created an almost transparent fill of the same color as the stroke.

Figure 03.14. A <polyline> element that creates three sides of a square and has a fill that is 90 percent transparent.

Listing 3.16. (Polyline01.svg)
 <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
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