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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition

by Ben Frain
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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What you can do with each SVG insertion method (inline, object, background-image, and img)

As mentioned previously, SVGs differ from other graphical assets. They can behave differently, depending upon the way they are inserted into a page. As we have seen, there are four main ways in which to place SVG onto the page:

  • Inside an img tag
  • Inside an object tag
  • As a background image
  • Inline

And depending upon the insertion method, certain capabilities will or will not be available to you.

To understand what should be possible with each insertion method, it might be simpler to consider this table.

What you can do with each SVG insertion method (inline, object, background-image, and img)

Now there are caveats to consider, marked within numbers:

  • *1: When ...
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