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Mastering SVG
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Mastering SVG

by Rob Larsen
September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
7h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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stroke-opacity

The stroke-opacity attribute does what you might expect. It sets the opacity of a stroked object. The following sample sets three different opacities on three separate rectangles. You can see stroke interact not just with the background of the page, but with the fill of the rectangle as well, as stroke is centered on the edge of the rectangle and part of it covers the filled-in area:

There is no easy way to change the positioning of the stroke attribute on an SVG element. In graphics programs, it's possible to set the stroke attribute to be on the inside of the box, centered on the edge of the box (which is how SVG does it) and outside the box. There is a proposal in the new SVG strokes (https://www.w3.org/TR/svg-strokes/
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ISBN: 9781788626743