In other words, it has the same advantages as using a Data URI. This can be nice because the image comes over right in the document and doesn’t need to make an additional HTTP request. Remember how you can grab the SVG code right from Illustrator while saving if you want? (You can also just open the SVG file in a text editor and grab that code.) You can drop that code right into an HTML document and the SVG image will show up just the same as if you put it in an img. Is that you don’t get to control the innards of the SVG with CSS like you can with the following two ways. One way is to test for support with Modernizr and swap out the src of the image: if (!Modernizr.svg) The problem with both and background-image… I’ve covered different techniques in different workshops I’ve done. If you’d like to use SVG, but also need to support these browsers that don’t support using SVG in this way, you have options.

Essentially: it works everywhere except IE 8 and down and Android 2.3 and down.

Using it this way has its own set of specific browser support. Here’s an example of that: Check out this Pen! Browser support You can change the size of it though just by selecting the img and changing its width or height, again like you could a PNG or JPG. That’s exactly how big the image will on the page, left to itself. In Illustrator, our artboard was 612px ✕ 502px. If I save the SVG to a file, I can use it directly in an tag. The interesting part here is that you can either press OK and save the file, or press “SVG Code…” and it will open TextEdit (on a Mac anyway) with the SVG code in it. I honestly don’t know much about all this. You can save the file directly from Adobe Illustrator as an SVG file.Īs you save it, you’ll get another dialog for SVG Options. Canvas matters in SVG just like it would in PNG or JPG. Notice the artboard is cropped up right against the edges of the design.

Design control like interactivity and filtersĭesign something in Adobe Illustrator.

Scales to any size without losing clarity (except very tiny).

You can use SVG on the web pretty easily, but there is plenty you should know. Basically, what you work with in Adobe Illustrator.

It literally means Scalable Vector Graphics. SVG is an image format for vector graphics.

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