The stroke
attribute is a presentation attribute defining the color (or any SVG paint servers like gradients or patterns) used to paint the outline of the shape;
Note: As a presentation attribute stroke
can be used as a CSS property.
As a presentation attribute, it can be applied to any element but it has effect only on the following twelve elements: <altGlyph>
, <circle>
, <ellipse>
, <line>
, <path>
, <polygon>
, <polyline>
, <rect>
, <text>
, <textPath>
, <tref>
, and <tspan>
html,body,svg { height:100% }
<svg viewBox="0 0 20 10" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <!-- Simple color stroke --> <circle cx="5" cy="5" r="4" fill="none" stroke="green" /> <!-- Stroke a circle with a gradient --> <defs> <linearGradient id="myGradient"> <stop offset="0%" stop-color="green" /> <stop offset="100%" stop-color="white" /> </linearGradient> </defs> <circle cx="15" cy="5" r="4" fill="none" stroke="url(#myGradient)" /> </svg>
Usage notes
Value | <paint> |
---|---|
Default value | none |
Animatable | Yes |
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 The definition of 'stroke' in that specification. |
Candidate Recommendation | Definition for shapes and texts. Adds context-fill and context-stroke . |
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) The definition of 'stroke' in that specification. |
Recommendation | Initial definition for shapes and texts |
Browser compatibility
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Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
stroke | Chrome ? | Edge ? | Firefox ? | IE ? | Opera ? | Safari ? | WebView Android ? | Chrome Android ? | Firefox Android ? | Opera Android ? | Safari iOS ? | Samsung Internet Android ? |
Legend
- Compatibility unknown
- Compatibility unknown
Note: For information on using the context-stroke
(and context-fill
) values from HTML documents, see the documentation for the non-standard -moz-context-properties
property.