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Introduction

The text element is used to include scalable text into an SVG image. The text can be scaled, rotated, skewed, stroked with paint, filled with a gradient, selectable, searchable.

Details

Usage

<text fill="blue" font-size="30" x="10" y="100">Some SVG Text</text>

Attributes

Common attributes:

• x - The x coordinate of the current text position.
• y - The y coordinate of the current text position.

Caveats

• The text element does not wrap text, see the tspan elements or the textarea element in SVGT 1.2
• Mozilla does not support selecting SVG text yet
• No browsers support finding SVG text on the page yet

Reference

• The <text> element in SVG 1.1