The MathML <mglyph>
element is used to display non-standard symbols where existing Unicode characters are not available. It may be used within token elements.
Attributes
- alt
- This attribute defines the alternative text describing the image. Users will see this displayed if the image URL is wrong, the image is not in one of the supported formats, or until the image is downloaded.
- class, id, style
- Provided for use with stylesheets.
- height
- The height of the image.
- href
- Used to set a hyperlink to a specified URI.
- mathbackground
- The background color (if the image has transparency). You can use
#rgb
,#rrggbb
and HTML color names. - src
- The image URL.
- valign
- Specifies the vertical alignment with respect to the current baseline.
- width
- The width of the image.
Examples
<math> <mi><mglyph src="my-glyph.png" alt="my glyph"/></mi> </math>
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
MathML 3.0 The definition of 'mglyph' in that specification. |
Recommendation | Current specification |
MathML 2.0 The definition of 'mglyph' in that specification. |
Recommendation | Initial specification |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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mglyph | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox No support No | IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari No support No | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android No support No | Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
Legend
- No support
- No support