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Mastering SVG

By : Rob Larsen
Book Image

Mastering SVG

By: Rob Larsen

Overview of this book

SVG is the most powerful image format in use on the web. In addition to producing resolution-independent images for today's multi-device world, SVG allows you to create animations and visualizations to add to your sites and applications. The simplicity of cross-platform markup, mixed with familiar modern web languages, such as CSS and JavaScript, creates a winning combination for designers and developers alike. In this book, you will learn how to author an SVG document using common SVG features, such as elements and attributes, and serve SVG on the web using simple configuration tips for common web servers. You will also use SVG elements and images in HTML documents. Further, you will use SVG images for a variety of common tasks, such as manipulating SVG elements, adding animations using CSS, mastering the basic JavaScript SVG (API) using Document Object Model (DOM) methods, and interfacing SVG with common libraries and frameworks, such as React, jQuery, and Angular. You will then build an understanding of the Snap.svg and SVG.js APIs, along with the basics of D3, and take a look at how to implement interesting visualizations using the library. By the end of the book, you will have mastered creating animations with SVG.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributors
Preface
Index

CSS background images


You've already seen examples of using CSS for background images all the way back in Chapter 1, Introducing Scalable Vector Graphics. This section will add some more details to using SVG in this way. 

 

In this initial, basic example, we add an SVG image of a stylized letter R as the background image of a div. One important aspect is setting the background-size property. The natural size of the SVG image is 458 by 392. In this case it's set to be half that size in order to fit into the size of the div:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>Mastering SVG- CSS Background Images</title>
        <style type="text/css">
          .logo{
            width: 229px;
            height: 196px;
            background: url(icon.svg);
            background-repeat: no-repeat;
            background-size: 229px 196px;
          }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
   ...