You've learned a lot in this chapter. CSS is one of the linchpin technologies for making fast, maintainable modern websites and applications, and understanding the intersection between SVG and CSS is important.
The chapter started with details about the common use case of using SVG for CSS background images, including interesting details about using SVG data URLs.
Following that, you learned about SVG sprites and icon sets and how and why they can be used in place of the common font icon sets so popular on the web today.
Following that, you learned about styling inline SVG, including detailed ways to manipulate the font and the flow of lines of text. Following that, you learned about many SVG-specific properties including those controlling the fill
, stroke
, and text of elements. After that, you learned about some cutting edge compositing properties, such as clip-path
and mask-image
, which are powerful, even if browser support isn't fully there yet.
After that, you learned about using...