Svg adds padding on resize bug -SVG/CSS - css

If I use a SVG and I resize it using CSS, I get a weird effect. If I change the width, the image will take up a lot of blank space vertically. If it I change the height, the image will take a lot of blank space horizontally. How can I fix that?
#item{
width: calc(30px + 3vw);
background-color: red;
}
<svg id="item"
width="100mm"
height="100mm"
viewBox="0 0 100 99.999997"
version="1.1">
<defs
id="defs2" />
<sodipodi:namedview
id="base"
pagecolor="#ffffff"
bordercolor="#666666"
borderopacity="1.0"
showgrid="false"/>
<metadata
id="metadata5">
<rdf:RDF>
<cc:Work
rdf:about="">
<dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
<dc:type
rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
<dc:title></dc:title>
</cc:Work>
</rdf:RDF>
</metadata>
<g
inkscape:label="Layer 1"
inkscape:groupmode="layer"
id="layer1"
transform="translate(0,-197)">
<rect
style="opacity:1;fill:#ff6600;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:none;stroke-width:0.56531394;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0;stroke-opacity:1"
id="rect4485"
width="100"
height="100"
x="0"
y="197" />
</g>
</svg>
Note: I made the image using inkscape and got rid of the useless XML.

Resizing svg is different than regular image in jpg or png. In svg if you remove dimensions (in your case width/height set to 100mm) your svg will adapt to container width easily and generally will be scalable.
Try with this svg and you should be able to resize it with no problems using only width or height.
By the way, I minified the code and removed all unnecessary tags to focus only on relevant code. If you inline this svg into html you can also remove xmlns.
svg{width:110px} /*your custom dimensions here*/
<svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<rect style="fill:#ff6600;stroke:red;stroke-width:0.565;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0" width="100" height="100"/>
</svg>
I set a stroke color to red so you can see it. If you don't need a stroke just remove all elements with "stroke".

Related

How to centre this SVG word

Trying to figure out how to centre this SVG text horizontally and vertically in the viewport
(The element needs to remains central across different viewport sizes)
Tried using the viewbox panning but I can't get everything aligned - part of the SVG remains cut off/incorrectly scaled
Also looking to set the font size to the same rem value as other standard text elements on the page.
SVG text is used as there's a 'slice' GSAP animation happening to it.
<div class="stage">
<svg id="demo" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="2000" height="800" viewBox="0 0 1000 800">
<defs>
<pattern id="slicePattern" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="3000" height="800" x="0" y="0"><text transform="translate(500 400)" text-anchor="middle" font-size="220" fill="#fff">SLICE</text>
</pattern>
</defs>
<g fill="url(#slicePattern)">
<polygon id="slide1" points="0,150 551,150 201,400 0,400" />
<polygon id="slide2" points="549,150 1000,400 999,400 1000,150" />
<polygon points="200,400 550,150 1000,400" />
</g>
<line x1="550" y1="150" x2="200" y2="400" stroke-width="1" stroke="white"/>
<line x1="550" y1="150" x2="1000" y2="400" stroke-width="1" stroke="white"/>
</svg>
</div>
The standard text to match to is 2.5em. Setting the SVG text to that it doesn't size the same. Also can't correctly pan the viewbox to centre the svg text in the viewport. I need this to be responsive centering also.
In short, I don't understand the effect the text transform properties are having on the element, or how this relates to the viewport/viewbox values.
For making the whole svg responsive:
svg{
width:100%;
height:auto
}
For the text, It has already text-anchor set to middle which is correct. You need to specify the position of the text by setting x and y values.
<text text-anchor="middle" x="50" y="0">The Text</text>
The font-size in svg has nothing to do with the default font-size of the css. It's relative to the viewBox of your svg. SVG functions as a separate image file. But you can have access to its style attributes by css.

SVG scale by (100% - 60px)

I'm trying to build an SVG image with content that is 100% the width of the container, minus 60px for some text.
If I was using HTML, or SVG with javascript, I would have no problem doing this. But I feel like there should be a way to do this using SVG (and CSS if needed).
I want the equivalent of this (Codepen here):
<svg width="100%" height="100%">
<rect fill="#ccc" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"></rect>
<text x="100%" y="50%" stroke="black" text-anchor="end">Y-axis</text>
<svg width="100%" height="100%">
<!-- This rect represents the entirety of the contents of the graph -->
<rect x="0" y="0" style="width: calc(100% - 60px)" height="100%" fill="#c88"></rect>
</svg>
</svg>
In the above snippet, the inner <rect> resizes to be 100% - 60px the width of the container element. However, this trick only works for a single element - if you replace that <rect> with a complex SVG structure it no longer works.
Things I've tried:
Doing a transform: scale() via CSS on the <rect> - I can't figure out what to put into the scale() to make it behave like 100% - 60px.
Changing the width of the nested <svg> element
<svg width="calc(100% - 60px)"> doesn't work - can't do calc() inside the width attribute
<svg width="100%" style="width: calc(100% - 60px);"> (with or without the width attribute) - doesn't work - the CSS "width" property is ignored whether or not the width attribute is present.
I'm starting to think what I want to do isn't possible right now with SVG, but it doesn't seem like an uncommon use case. Is there any way to do this?
As discussed in the comments, you might have some luck achieving the same by making your graph area 100% of the viewBox, but place the SVG in a container with 60px of padding on the right to account for the text space.
Moving your text (and background rect) to x="100%" with its text-anchor="start", in addition to letting the SVG overflow, you can get a pretty close result without needing to transform your graphic, since you have a fixed 60px value you can consistently rely on:
div {
padding-right: 60px;
}
svg {
overflow: visible;
}
<div>
<svg width="100%" height="100%">
<rect fill="#ccc" x="100%" y="0" width="60px" height="100%"></rect>
<text x="100%" y="50%" stroke="black" text-anchor="start">Y-axis</text>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fill="#c88"></rect>
</svg>
</div>
PS: Maybe you would prefer your text to have text-anchor="middle", and transform it in CSS with transform: translateX(30px) to place it in the centre of the "text" area — might look cleaner that way:
div {
padding-right: 60px;
}
svg {
overflow: visible;
}
text {
transform: translateX(30px);
}
<div>
<svg width="100%" height="100%">
<rect fill="#ccc" x="100%" y="0" width="60px" height="100%"></rect>
<text x="100%" y="50%" stroke="black" text-anchor="middle">Y-axis</text>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fill="#c88"></rect>
</svg>
</div>

Using SVG <image> as cover inside proportion less SVG

DEMO
Objective: I am trying to create a triangle shaped proportion less image in HTML.
My Approach: I have decided to use SVG to achieve this by creating a polygon triangle that can stretch & shrink to fit any dimension and used it as a mask on image that is suppose to fit in any dimension without loosing its own proportion.
Issue: Although the shape is working as I want but the background image stretches with the shape, is there any way I can make the image behave to something similar like css background-size: cover property.
Code:
HTML
<div id="svg-container">
<svg width='100%' height='100%' viewBox="0 0 100 100" preserveAspectRatio="none" style='background-color: whitesmoke'>
<defs>
<polygon id="mask" points="0,0 0,100 0,100 100,0" />
<pattern id="image" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="100" height="100" x="0" y="0">
<image xlink:href="http://lorempixel.com/500/500" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin slice"/>
</pattern>
</defs>
<use xlink:href="#mask" fill="url(#image)"></use>
</svg>
</div>
CSS:
#svg-container {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
}
To check same issue using SVG image tag here.

CSS padding property for svg elements

I can't figure out how the CSS padding property is interpreted for svg elements. The following snippet (jsFiddle):
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>noob d3</title>
<style>
svg{background-color:beige;
padding:0px 0px 50px 50px;}
rect{fill:red;
stroke:none;
shape-rendering:crispEdges;}
</style>
<body>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
d3.select("body")
.append("svg")
.attr("width", 155)
.attr("height", 105)
.append("g")
.append("rect")
.attr("class", "frame")
.attr("x", 50)
.attr("y", 50)
.attr("width", 50)
.attr("height", 50);
</script>
</body>
... displays significantly differently in Firefox and Chrome. What's worse, neither display really makes sense to me: the size of the displayed svg element (the "beige" rectangle) looks to be significantly bigger than what I expected.
So my question is two-fold: 1) How is the padding property of an svg element supposed to affect where things get drawn within it? 2) Is there a polyfill that will ensure that both Chrome and Firefox both handle padding in the same way?
AFAIK, the SVG standard doesn't specify anything like padding, which is why it's handled inconsistently. Just set the SVG to the size you want (with padding) and maybe add a rect to make it appear like you want it to appear.
From my experience (granted, still very little as I am still learning SVG), I have strayed away from using padding wherever that I could do so. It was suggested to me when I was first learning SVG that I use margin in place of padding, if possible.
This is also because you can use display: block; and margin: 0 auto; to make the left and right sides of an SVG to fit directly into the middle of the screen.
There is no padding or margin, but you can set x and y attributes such that the elements inside or outside get a padding and margin. For example, if an element starts at (0,0), starting at (10, 10) will automatically give a margin of 10.
You can apply padding to parent svg elements
The padding as described by the OP actually works – albeit, not as desired.
Outermost <svg> will be rendered with padding (won't work for nested svgs).
But: child elements (e.g the <rect>) won't be re-aligned according to – unlike HTML DOM elements.
svg {
background-color: beige;
max-height:20em;
}
.pdd{
padding: 0px 0px 50px 50px;
}
rect {
fill: red;
stroke: none;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.borderBox{
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.overflow{
overflow:visible
}
<p>Rendered size: 205 x 155 – padding added to initial dimensions </p>
<svg class="pdd" width="155" height="105">
<g>
<rect class="frame" x="50" y="50" width="50" height="50" />
</g>
</svg>
<p>Rendered size: 155 x 105; cropped</p>
<svg class="pdd borderBox" width="155" height="105">
<g>
<rect class="frame" x="50" y="50" width="50" height="50" />
</g>
</svg>
<p>Rendered size: 155 x 105; cropped; overflow visible</p>
<svg class="pdd borderBox overflow" width="155" height="105">
<g>
<rect class="frame" x="50" y="50" width="50" height="50" />
</g>
</svg>
Usecase: padding for fluid svg layouts
So, padding doesn't work well for fixed widths/heights.
However, it can be handy for flexible/fluid layouts – provided you're using relative (percentage) units for svg child elements.
*{
box-sizing:border-box;
}
svg{
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
svg {
background-color: lightblue;
padding:0 10px;
overflow:visible;
}
.svg2 {
padding:10px;
}
.svg3 {
padding:0px;
}
.resize{
resize:both;
overflow:auto;
padding:1em;
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
<p>resize me :</p>
<div class="resize">
<svg id="svg" width="100%" height="40" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<circle cx="0" cy="10" r="5" />
<circle cx="0" cy="30" r="5" />
<circle cx="50%" cy="10" r="5" />
<circle cx="50%" cy="30" r="5" />
<circle cx="100%" cy="10" r="5" />
<circle cx="100%" cy="30" r="5" />
</svg>
</div>
<div class="resize">
<svg class="svg2" width="100%" height="100%" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<!-- align path center to x/y =0 by adding viewBox offset width/2 height/2 -->
<symbol class="icon icon-home" id="iconHome" viewBox="20 20 40 40" overflow="visible">
<path d="M36.4 22.2l-5.2 0l0 13l-3.4 0l0-16.7l-7.7-8.7l-7.7 8.7l0 16.7l-3.4 0l0-13l-5.2 0l16.4-17.4z"></path>
</symbol>
<use x="0" y="0%" href="#iconHome" width="20" height="20" />
<use x="0" y="100%" href="#iconHome" width="20" height="20" />
<use x="50%" y="0%" href="#iconHome" width="20" height="20" />
<use x="50%" y="100%" href="#iconHome" width="20" height="20" />
<use x="100%" y="0%" href="#iconHome" width="20" height="20" />
<use x="100%" y="100%" href="#iconHome" width="20" height="20" />
</svg>
</div>
Based on what I was able to try on firefox and chromium: the specified width and height for an svg include the padding.
In other terms, if you want an image of 20*20px with a padding of 10px on each side, you should set the width to 20+10*2 = 40px (same thing with the height) and the padding to 10px
Note : 20+10*2 : 20 is the width you want, 10 is your padding and you double it because you want it on both sides.
The best solution is open Inkscape (or other SVG editor) and change dimension

Is it possible to use a background image on the stroke of an SVG element?

Just as the question asks - I'm trying to figure out whether or not it's possible to use some kind of pattern or repeated background image for the stroke of an SVG path.
Is this doable? Or are you limited to colors only?
TIA!
You can use a <pattern> as a stroke e.g.
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<defs>
<pattern id="p1" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="32" height="32">
<image xlink:href="http://phrogz.net/tmp/alphaball-small.png" width="32" height="32" />
</pattern>
</defs>
<rect stroke-width="32" stroke="url(#p1)" width="200" height="200" fill="none"/>
</svg>
The pattern can contain <svg> drawing elements or (as here) an image, or both.
You can use the property stroke-dasharray for "patterns" in the stroke:
<line stroke-dasharray="5, 5" x1="10" y1="10" x2="190" y2="10" />
With this you can specify the length of strokes and gaps between. For some examples have a look at the MDN example page.

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