The fourth, xlink:href, isn’t specific to textPaths Of the three attributes, startOffset is the one you’ll use most often.

There are three attributes specific to the element in SVG 1.1. Again if you need a path reminder I’ll point you to the two posts I mentioned previously. The most complicated part was the path itself. It moved up, to the right, and then down again. h240 - move to the right horizontally (240)Īs you can see, the text followed the path.

The path is created inside elements and is defined by the values set on the path definition (d). The path id is referenced inside the textPath element through the xlink:href attribute. I’ll explain the values in the path momentarily. Next I created a linear path and gave the path an id of text-path. In this first example I created an SVG element, defined the width and height of the viewport and then styled it.

SVG Basics-Creating Paths With Curve CommandsĪs we’ve done throughout this series, let’s work our way through an example and then build on it.

SVG Basics-Creating Paths With Line Commands.

If you need a reminder for how to work with paths, I’ll refer you to a couple of posts from one of my previous SVG series. Note: SVG 2.0 is dropping the xlink: and will simply use href to refer to the path. To refer to the path you’ll use an xlink:href attribute on the. To create SVG text that follows a path you use a element in combination with a path you define inside tags. Today I’ll show you how to work with SVG text along straight line paths that change direction and next week I’ll show you how to create SVG text along any curved path you can imagine. Until now the text has always been located along a default straight line. One thing we haven’t changed so far is the path on which the text is laid out. We’ve covered a lot so far in this series on SVG text. This opens up many possibilities for displaying text.

In addition to laying out text in a straight line SVG includes the ability to have text laid out along any path you create.

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