Change SVG color as asset [duplicate] - html

I want to use this technique and change the SVG color, but so far I haven't been able to do so. I use this in the CSS, but my image is always black, no matter what.
My code:
.change-my-color {
fill: green;
}
<svg>
<image class="change-my-color" xlink:href="https://svgur.com/i/AFM.svg" width="96" height="96" src="ppngfallback.png" />
</svg>

2020 answer
CSS Filter works on all current browsers
To change any SVGs color
Add the SVG image using an <img> tag.
<img src="dotted-arrow.svg" class="filter-green"/>
To filter to a specific color, use the following Codepen (click here to open the codepen) to convert a hexadecimal color code to a CSS filter:
For example, output for #00EE00 is
filter: invert(42%) sepia(93%) saturate(1352%) hue-rotate(87deg) brightness(119%) contrast(119%);
Add the CSS filter into this class.
.filter-green{
filter: invert(48%) sepia(79%) saturate(2476%) hue-rotate(86deg) brightness(118%) contrast(119%);
}

To change the color of any SVG, you can directly change the SVG code by opening the SVG file in any text editor. The code may look like the below code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 16.0.0, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0) -->
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
width="500px" height="500px" viewBox="0 0 500 500" enable-background="new 0 0 500 500" xml:space="preserve">
<g>
<path d="M114.26,436.584L99.023,483h301.953l-15.237-46.416H114.26z M161.629,474.404h-49.592l9.594-29.225h69.223
C181.113,454.921,171.371,464.663,161.629,474.404z"/>
/* Some more code goes on */
</g>
</svg>
You can observe that there are some XML tags like path, circle, polygon, etc.. There you can add your own color with help of the style attribute. Look at the below example
<path fill="#AB7C94" d="M114.26,436.584L99.023,483h301.953l-15.237-46.416H114.26z M161.629,474.404h-49.592l9.594-29.225h69.223
C181.113,454.921,171.371,464.663,161.629,474.404z"/>
Add the style attribute to all the tags so that you can get your SVG of your required color.
As per Daniel's comment, we can use fill attribute directly instead of fill element inside style attribute.

You can't change the color of an image that way. If you load SVG as an image, you can't change how it is displayed using CSS or JavaScript in the browser.
If you want to change your SVG image, you have to load it using <object>, <iframe> or using <svg> inline.
If you want to use the techniques in the page, you need the Modernizr library, where you can check for SVG support and conditionally display or not a fallback image. You can then inline your SVG and apply the styles you need.
See:
#time-3-icon {
fill: green;
}
.my-svg-alternate {
display: none;
}
.no-svg .my-svg-alternate {
display: block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-image: url(image.png);
}
<svg width="96px" height="96px" viewBox="0 0 512 512" enable-background="new 0 0 512 512" xml:space="preserve">
<path id="time-3-icon" d="M256,50C142.229,50,50,142.229,50,256c0,113.77,92.229,206,206,206c113.77,0,206-92.23,206-206
C462,142.229,369.77,50,256,50z M256,417c-88.977,0-161-72.008-161-161c0-88.979,72.008-161,161-161c88.977,0,161,72.007,161,161
C417,344.977,344.992,417,256,417z M382.816,265.785c1.711,0.297,2.961,1.781,2.961,3.518v0.093c0,1.72-1.223,3.188-2.914,3.505
c-37.093,6.938-124.97,21.35-134.613,21.35c-13.808,0-25-11.192-25-25c0-9.832,14.79-104.675,21.618-143.081
c0.274-1.542,1.615-2.669,3.181-2.669h0.008c1.709,0,3.164,1.243,3.431,2.932l18.933,119.904L382.816,265.785z"/>
</svg>
<image class="my-svg-alternate" width="96" height="96" src="ppngfallback.png" />
You can inline your SVG. Tag your fallback image with a class name (my-svg-alternate):
<svg width="96px" height="96px" viewBox="0 0 512 512" enable-background="new 0 0 512 512" xml:space="preserve">
<path id="time-3-icon" .../>
</svg>
<image class="my-svg-alternate" width="96" height="96" src="ppngfallback.png" />
And in CSS use the no-svg class from Modernizr (CDN: http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/modernizr/modernizr-2.7.2.js ) to check for SVG support. If there isn't any SVG support, the SVG block will be ignored and the image will be displayed, otherwise the image will be removed from the DOM tree (display: none):
.my-svg-alternate {
display: none;
}
.no-svg .my-svg-alternate {
display: block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-image: url(image.png);
}
Then you can change the color of your inlined element:
#time-3-icon {
fill: green;
}

If you want to change the color dynamically:
Open the SVG in a code editor
Add or rewrite the attribute of fill of every path to fill="currentColor"
Now, that svg will take the color of your font color, so you can do something like:
svg {
color : "red";
}

Only SVG with path information. You can't do that to the image... as the path you can change stroke and fill information and you are done. like Adobe Illustrator
So, via CSS you can overwrite the path fill value:
path { fill: orange; }
But if you want a more flexible way as you want to change it with a text when having some hovering effect going on, use:
path { fill: currentColor; }
body {
background: #ddd;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 2em;
}
.parent {
width: 320px;
height: 50px;
display: block;
transition: all 0.3s;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 12px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
/*** desired colors for children ***/
.parent{
color: #000;
background: #def;
}
.parent:hover{
color: #fff;
background: #85c1fc;
}
.parent span{
font-size: 18px;
margin-right: 8px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: 'Helvetica';
line-height: 26px;
vertical-align: top;
}
.parent svg{
max-height: 26px;
width: auto;
display: inline;
}
/**** magic trick *****/
.parent svg path{
fill: currentcolor;
}
<div class='parent'>
<span>TEXT WITH SVG</span>
<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="128" height="128" viewBox="0 0 32 32">
<path d="M30.148 5.588c-2.934-3.42-7.288-5.588-12.148-5.588-8.837 0-16 7.163-16 16s7.163 16 16 16c4.86 0 9.213-2.167 12.148-5.588l-10.148-10.412 10.148-10.412zM22 3.769c1.232 0 2.231 0.999 2.231 2.231s-0.999 2.231-2.231 2.231-2.231-0.999-2.231-2.231c0-1.232 0.999-2.231 2.231-2.231z"></path>
</svg>
</div>

I added a test page - to color SVG via Filter settings:
For example,
filter: invert(0.5) sepia(1) saturate(5) hue-rotate(175deg)
Upload & Color your SVG - Jsfiddle
I took the idea from: Swapping Fill Color on Image Tag SVGs

Solution 1 - Edit SVG to point to the currentColor
<svg>... fill: currentColor stroke: currentColor ...</svg>
Then you can control the color of the stroke and the fill from your CSS content:
svg {
color: blue; /* Or any color of your choice. */
}
Pros and cons:
Simple and uses conventional supported CSS.
Suitable if:
You control the SVG
SVG can be included inline in the HTML.
Solution 2 - CSS mask property
<i class="icon"></i>
.icon {
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
-webkit-mask-image: url(https://url.of.svg/....svg);
mask-image: url(https://url.of.svg/....svg);
background-color: blue; /* Or any color of your choice. */
width: 20px;
height: 20px;
}
}
Pros and cons
Relatively easy to use
Browser support for the mask CSS property is partial.
Suitable if:
SVG is external, and included via URL
Meant to be used on modern known browsers.
Solution 3 - CSS Filter property - static color
If the color is known in advance, you can use https://codepen.io/sosuke/pen/Pjoqqp to find the filter needed to change your SVG to the desired color. For example, to convert the svg to #00f:
<img src="https://url.of.svg/....svg" class="icon">
.icon {
filter: invert(8%) sepia(100%) saturate(6481%) hue-rotate(246deg) brightness(102%) contrast(143%);
}
If your original color isn't black, prefix the list of filters with brightness(0) saturate(100%) to convert it first to black.
Pros and cons:
There might be a small, nonsignificant difference between the result and the desired color.
Suitable if:
Desired color is known in advance.
External image

SVG mask on a box element with a background color will result:
body{ overflow:hidden; }
.icon {
--size: 70px;
display: inline-block;
width: var(--size);
height: var(--size);
transition: .12s;
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
}
.icon-bike {
background: black;
animation: 4s frames infinite linear;
-webkit-mask-image: url(https://image.flaticon.com/icons/svg/89/89139.svg);
mask-image: url(https://image.flaticon.com/icons/svg/89/89139.svg);
}
#keyframes frames {
0% { transform:translatex(100vw) }
25% { background: red; }
75% { background: lime; }
100% { transform:translatex(-100%) }
}
<i class="icon icon-bike" style="--size:150px"></i>
Note - SVG masks are not supported in Internet Explorer browsers

The easiest way would be to create a font out of the SVG using a service like https://icomoon.io/app/#/select or such. Upload your SVG, click "generate font", include font files and CSS content into your side and just use and style it like any other text. I always use it like this because it makes styling much easier.
But as mentioned in the article commented by #CodeMouse92, icon fonts mess up screen readers (and are possibly bad for SEO). So rather stick to the SVGs.

You can try to color it with this css filter hack:
.colorize-pink {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(-70deg) saturate(5);
}
.colorize-navy {
filter: brightness(0.2) sepia(1) hue-rotate(180deg) saturate(5);
}
.colorize-blue {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(140deg) saturate(6);
}

To simply change the color of the SVG file:
Go to the SVG file and under styles, mention the color in fill:
<style>.cls-1{fill: #FFFFFF;}</style>

Target the path within the 'svg' tag:
<svg>
<path>....
</svg>
You can do it inline, like:
<path fill="#ccc">
Or
svg{
path{
fill: #ccc

To change the color of an SVG element, I have found out a way while inspecting the Google search box search icon below:
.search_icon {
color: red;
fill: currentColor;
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
<span class="search_icon">
<svg focusable="false" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M15.5 14h-.79l-.28-.27A6.471 6.471 0 0 0 16 9.5 6.5 6.5 0 1 0 9.5 16c1.61 0 3.09-.59 4.23-1.57l.27.28v.79l5 4.99L20.49 19l-4.99-5zm-6 0C7.01 14 5 11.99 5 9.5S7.01 5 9.5 5 14 7.01 14 9.5 11.99 14 9.5 14z"></path></svg>
</span>
I have used a span element with "display:inline-block", height, width and setting a particular style "color: red; fill: currentColor;" to that span tag which is inherited by the child svg element.

You can change SVG coloring with CSS if you use some tricks.
I wrote a small script for that.
go through a list of elements which do have an SVG image
load the SVG file as XML
fetch only the SVG part
change color of path
replace src with the modified SVG image as an inline image
$('img.svg-changeable').each(function () {
var $e = $(this);
var imgURL = $e.prop('src');
$.get(imgURL, function (data) {
// Get the SVG tag, ignore the rest
var $svg = $(data).find('svg');
// Change the color
$svg.find('path').attr('fill', '#000');
$e.prop('src', "data:image/svg+xml;base64," + window.btoa($svg.prop('outerHTML')));
});
});
The code above might not be working correctly. I've implemented this for elements with an SVG background image which works nearly similar to this.
But anyway, you have to modify this script to fit your case.

Method 1
The easy and effect way:
Open your .svg file with any text editor
<svg version="1.1" id="Capa_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
viewBox="0 0 477.526 477.526" style="enable-background:new 0 0 477.526 477.526;
fill: rgb(109, 248, 248);" xml:space="preserve">
<svg />
Give an style attribute and fill that with color.
Another way
Fill with color in your shape. Here i have rect shape fill="white".
<svg width="800" height="600" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<g>
<title>background</title>
<rect fill="#fff" id="canvas_background" height="602" width="802" y="-1"
x="-1"/>
<g display="none" overflow="visible" y="0" x="0" height="100%" width="100%"
id="canvasGrid">
<rect fill="url(#gridpattern)" stroke-width="0" y="0" x="0" height="100%"
width="100%"/>
</g>
</g>
</svg>

2022 Web Component <load-file> answer
This (8 line) native Web Component loads external content, and injects it into the DOM.
It is explained and documented in a DEV blog post: <load-file> Web Component.
Full source code:
customElements.define("load-file", class extends HTMLElement {
// declare default connectedCallback as sync so await can be used
async connectedCallback(
// call connectedCallback with parameter to *replace* SVG (of <load-file> persists)
src = this.getAttribute("src"),
// attach a shadowRoot if none exists (prevents displaying error when moving Nodes)
// declare as parameter to save 4 Bytes: 'let '
shadowRoot = this.shadowRoot || this.attachShadow({mode:"open"})
) {
// load SVG file from src="" async, parse to text, add to shadowRoot.innerHTML
shadowRoot.innerHTML = await (await fetch(src)).text()
// append optional <tag [shadowRoot]> Elements from inside <load-svg> after parsed <svg>
shadowRoot.append(...this.querySelectorAll("[shadowRoot]"))
// if "replaceWith" attribute
// then replace <load-svg> with loaded content <load-svg>
// childNodes instead of children to include #textNodes also
this.hasAttribute("replaceWith") && this.replaceWith(...shadowRoot.childNodes)
}
})
<load-file src="//load-file.github.io/heart.svg">
<!-- elements inside load-file are MOVED to shadowDOM -->
<style shadowRoot>
svg {
height: 180px; /* Stack Overflow subwindow height */
}
path:nth-child(2n+2) {
fill: GREEN; /* shadowDOM style does NOT style global DOM */
}
</style>
</load-file>

If the same SVG must be used multiple times with different colors, define the set of paths within a hidden SVG which serves as the master copy. Then place new instances which refer to the master path with their individual fills.
Note: This approach only works with inline <svg> tags. It will not work with <img> tags loading .svg files.
:root {
fill: gray;
}
.hidden {
display: none;
}
svg {
width: 1em;
height: 1em;
}
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="hidden">
<path id="s_fave" d="m379 21c-57 0-104 53-123 78-19-25-66-78-123-78-74 0-133 68-133 151 0 45 18 88 49 116 0.5 0.8 1 2 2 2l197 197c2 2 5 3 8 3s5-1 8-3l206-206c2-2 3-3 5-5 0.8-0.8 1-2 2-3 23-28 35-64 35-102 0-83-60-151-133-151z"/>
<path id="s_star" d="m511 196c-3-10-13-18-23-19l-148-13-58-137c-4-10-14-17-25-17-11 0-21 6-25 17l-58 137-148 13c-11 1-20 8-23 19-3 10-0.3 22 8 29l112 98-33 145c-2 11 2 22 11 28 5 3 10 5 16 5 5 0 10-1 14-4l127-76 127 76c9 6 21 5 30-1 9-6 13-17 11-28l-33-145 112-98c8-7 11-19 8-29z"/>
</svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_fave"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_star"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_fave" fill="red"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_star" fill="gold"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_fave" fill="purple"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_star" fill="silver"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_fave" fill="pink"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_star" fill="blue"></use></svg>

Here the fast and furious way :)
body {
background-color: #DEFF05;
}
svg {
width: 30%;
height: auto;
}
svg path {
color: red;
fill: currentcolor;
}
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" id="Capa_1" x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 514.666 514.666"><path d="M514.666,210.489L257.333,99.353L0,210.489l45.933,19.837v123.939h30V243.282l33.052,14.274v107.678l4.807,4.453 c2.011,1.862,50.328,45.625,143.542,45.625c93.213,0,141.53-43.763,143.541-45.626l4.807-4.452V257.557L514.666,210.489z M257.333,132.031L439,210.489l-181.667,78.458L75.666,210.489L257.333,132.031z M375.681,351.432 c-13.205,9.572-53.167,33.881-118.348,33.881c-65.23,0-105.203-24.345-118.348-33.875v-80.925l118.348,51.112l118.348-51.111 V351.432z"></path></svg>

For example, in your HTML:
<body>
<svg viewBox="" width="" height="">
<path id="struct1" fill="#xxxxxx" d="M203.3,71.6c-.........."></path>
</svg>
</body>
Use jQuery:
$("#struct1").css("fill", "<desired colour>");

Check out this code. It works.
<div>
<!-- YouTube -->
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 576 512">
<path fill="white"
d="M549.655 124.083c-6.281-23.65-24.787-42.276-48.284-48.597C458.781 64 288 64 288 64S117.22 64 74.629 75.486c-23.497 6.322-42.003 24.947-48.284 48.597-11.412 42.867-11.412 132.305-11.412 132.305s0 89.438 11.412 132.305c6.281 23.65 24.787 41.5 48.284 47.821C117.22 448 288 448 288 448s170.78 0 213.371-11.486c23.497-6.321 42.003-24.171 48.284-47.821 11.412-42.867 11.412-132.305 11.412-132.305s0-89.438-11.412-132.305zm-317.51 213.508V175.185l142.739 81.205-142.739 81.201z" />
</svg>
<!-- Instagram -->
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512">
<path fill="white"
d="M224.1 141c-63.6 0-114.9 51.3-114.9 114.9s51.3 114.9 114.9 114.9S339 319.5 339 255.9 287.7 141 224.1 141zm0 189.6c-41.1 0-74.7-33.5-74.7-74.7s33.5-74.7 74.7-74.7 74.7 33.5 74.7 74.7-33.6 74.7-74.7 74.7zm146.4-194.3c0 14.9-12 26.8-26.8 26.8-14.9 0-26.8-12-26.8-26.8s12-26.8 26.8-26.8 26.8 12 26.8 26.8zm76.1 27.2c-1.7-35.9-9.9-67.7-36.2-93.9-26.2-26.2-58-34.4-93.9-36.2-37-2.1-147.9-2.1-184.9 0-35.8 1.7-67.6 9.9-93.9 36.1s-34.4 58-36.2 93.9c-2.1 37-2.1 147.9 0 184.9 1.7 35.9 9.9 67.7 36.2 93.9s58 34.4 93.9 36.2c37 2.1 147.9 2.1 184.9 0 35.9-1.7 67.7-9.9 93.9-36.2 26.2-26.2 34.4-58 36.2-93.9 2.1-37 2.1-147.8 0-184.8zM398.8 388c-7.8 19.6-22.9 34.7-42.6 42.6-29.5 11.7-99.5 9-132.1 9s-102.7 2.6-132.1-9c-19.6-7.8-34.7-22.9-42.6-42.6-11.7-29.5-9-99.5-9-132.1s-2.6-102.7 9-132.1c7.8-19.6 22.9-34.7 42.6-42.6 29.5-11.7 99.5-9 132.1-9s102.7-2.6 132.1 9c19.6 7.8 34.7 22.9 42.6 42.6 11.7 29.5 9 99.5 9 132.1s2.7 102.7-9 132.1z" />
</svg>
</div>
CSS
svg {
fill: white;
}

For a better resolution about Manish Menaria's (thank you so much for your help) response, use this filter generator instead a purposed generator: https://angel-rs.github.io/css-color-filter-generator/
.filter-green{
filter: invert(48%) sepia(79%) saturate(2476%) hue-rotate(86deg) brightness(118%) contrast(119%);
}

Use an svg <mask> element.
This is better than other solutions because:
Closely matches your original code.
Works in IE!
The embedded image can still be an external, unmodified file.
The image does not even have to be an SVG.
Color is inherited from font-color, so easy to use alongside text.
Color is a normal CSS color, not a strange combination of filters.
<svg style="color: green; width: 96px; height: 96px" viewBox="0 0 100 100" preserveAspectRatio="none">
<defs>
<mask id="fillMask" x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100">
<image xlink:href="https://svgur.com/i/AFM.svg" x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100" src="ppngfallback.png" />
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100" style="stroke: none; fill: currentColor" mask="url("#fillMask")" />
</svg>
https://jsfiddle.net/jamiegl/5jaL0s1t/19/

If you want to do this to an inline SVG file, that is, for example, a background image in your CSS content:
background: url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' fill='rgba(31,159,215,1)' viewBox='...'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
Of course, replace the ... with your inline image code.

There are some problems with Manish Menaria's answer, if we convert white color it shows gray.
So I added some tweaks, and the below example specifically shows how to change the color in the material icon:
<mat-icon class="draft-white" svgIcon="draft" aria-hidden="false"></mat-icon>
.draft-white{
filter: brightness(0) invert(1);
}

You can use a font icon to use any CSS option in SVG
I was searching for a way to have any CSS options, like animation for SVG, and I ended up to generate a font icon with my SVG(s) and then used it inside a span (like Font Awesome), so any CSS option, like coloring, was available on it.
I used https://icomoon.io to convert my SVG image to a font icon. Then you can use it like Font Awesome or MaterialIcon inside HTML elements.

I found it a bit clumsy, but it is definitely a working way to dynamically change the color of an SVG included with <img> tag.
In the SVG file, you can add CSS content the following way:
<svg ...>
<defs>
<style>
...
<style>
<defs>
There you can use #media rules, with which the SVG can look outside itself for contextual circumstances. There's an aspect-ratio media feature that applies to the SVG box (e.g., the <img> tag). You can create different contexts for the SVG by stretching the SVG box a little bit.
This way you can also make the favicon the same SVG that appears on the website, but with a different color. (In this case, no other SVG boxes should be square-shaped.)
/* img stretched horizontally (if SVG is square-shaped) */
#media (min-aspect-ratio: 1000/999) {
path {
fill: blue;
}
}
/* img stretched vertically (if SVG is square-shaped) */
#media (max-aspect-ratio: 999/1000) {
path {
fill: green;
}
}
/* img with exact sizes */
#media (aspect-ratio: 86/74) {
path {
fill: red;
}
}
/* favicon with light browser theme */
#media (aspect-ratio: 1/1) and (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
path {
fill: black;
}
}
/* favicon with dark browser theme */
#media (aspect-ratio: 1/1) and (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
path {
fill: white;
}
}
One very important thing
The SVG must contain viewBox information, so that the stretching does not affect the graphics. Example:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="300" height="300" viewBox="0 0 300 300">

Actually, there is a quite more flexible solution to this problem: writing a Web Component which will patch SVG as text at runtime. I also published in a gist with a link to JSFiddle.
👍 filter: invert(42%) sepia(93%) saturate(1352%) hue-rotate(87deg) brightness(119%) contrast(119%);
<html>
<head>
<title>SVG with color</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
(function () {
const createSvg = (color = '#ff9933') => `
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="1.1" width="76px" height="22px" viewBox="-0.5 -0.5 76 22">
<defs/>
<g>
<ellipse cx="5" cy="10" rx="5" ry="5" fill="#ff9933" stroke="none" pointer-events="all"/>
<ellipse cx="70" cy="10" rx="5" ry="5" fill="#ff9933" stroke="none" pointer-events="all"/>
<path d="M 9.47 12.24 L 17.24 16.12 Q 25 20 30 13 L 32.5 9.5 Q 35 6 40 9 L 42.5 10.5 Q 45 12 50 6 L 52.5 3 Q 55 0 60.73 3.23 L 66.46 6.46" fill="none" stroke="#ff9933" stroke-miterlimit="10" pointer-events="stroke"/>
</g>
</svg>`.split('#ff9933').join(color);
function SvgWithColor() {
const div = Reflect.construct(HTMLElement, [], SvgWithColor);
const color = div.hasAttribute('color') ? div.getAttribute('color') : 'cyan';
div.innerHTML = createSvg(color);
return div;
}
SvgWithColor.prototype = Object.create(HTMLElement.prototype);
customElements.define('svg-with-color', SvgWithColor);
document.body.innerHTML += `<svg-with-color
color='magenta'
></svg-with-color>`;
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>

My answer would be this. But I’m not 100% sure if it works for everyone:
Select 'svg' and then 'path'. And you can change 'fill' then.
.eye-icon-container {
width: 33px;
height: 33px;
border-radius: 5px;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
:hover {
background-color: #ddf0ff;
}
:active {
background-color: #1d398d;
svg {
path {
fill: #fff;
}
}
}
}

If you have a single-colour SVG with varying opacities that you simply want to tint to a different colour then there is another approach that can be used: the feFlood SVG filter.
This solution is not as straightforward as a single-line CSS, however:
It works on SVGs inside of an img element.
This doesn't require editing the source SVG at all.
It allows you to simply choose a target colour for the SVG and not worry about complex colour transforms, like hue-rotate.
Here is an example:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="0" height="0">
<defs>
<filter id="recolourFilter" filterUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
<feFlood flood-color="aquamarine" result="flood" />
<feComposite in="flood" in2="SourceAlpha" operator="in" />
</filter>
</defs>
</svg>
<img style="filter: url(#recolourFilter);" width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Bitmap_VS_SVG.svg" />
In the above example, we create an inline SVG to define the filters and then we apply it to the image. Inside of the <filter> block we first define the fill colour that we want via <feFlood> and then we create a composite image using the alpha channel of the source plus the flood colour. Finally, the filter is applied to the whole image via the filter CSS property on the img element.
I learned about this technique from this Smashing Magasine article. It's a highly recommended read if you want to learn more about SVG filters.
A few additional things to note:
This filter can be applied to any HTML element via the CSS filter property.
The same filter can be reused multiple times on the same page.
If you are using an inline SVG then the <defs> block can form part of the svg element and the filter can still be applied to the whole SVG or on selective elements. This avoids needing a separate SVG element for the filters.

A good approach is to use a mixin to control stroke colour and fill colour. My 'svg's are used as icons.
#mixin icon($color, $hoverColor) {
svg {
fill: $color;
circle, line, path {
fill: $color
}
&:hover {
fill: $hoverColor;
circle, line, path {
fill: $hoverColor;
}
}
}
}
You can then do the following in your SCSS file:
.container {
#include icon(white, blue);
}

Related

Changing color of svg, specifically loaded with css "content" using currentcolor [duplicate]

I want to use this technique and change the SVG color, but so far I haven't been able to do so. I use this in the CSS, but my image is always black, no matter what.
My code:
.change-my-color {
fill: green;
}
<svg>
<image class="change-my-color" xlink:href="https://svgur.com/i/AFM.svg" width="96" height="96" src="ppngfallback.png" />
</svg>
2020 answer
CSS Filter works on all current browsers
To change any SVGs color
Add the SVG image using an <img> tag.
<img src="dotted-arrow.svg" class="filter-green"/>
To filter to a specific color, use the following Codepen (click here to open the codepen) to convert a hexadecimal color code to a CSS filter:
For example, output for #00EE00 is
filter: invert(42%) sepia(93%) saturate(1352%) hue-rotate(87deg) brightness(119%) contrast(119%);
Add the CSS filter into this class.
.filter-green{
filter: invert(48%) sepia(79%) saturate(2476%) hue-rotate(86deg) brightness(118%) contrast(119%);
}
To change the color of any SVG, you can directly change the SVG code by opening the SVG file in any text editor. The code may look like the below code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 16.0.0, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0) -->
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
width="500px" height="500px" viewBox="0 0 500 500" enable-background="new 0 0 500 500" xml:space="preserve">
<g>
<path d="M114.26,436.584L99.023,483h301.953l-15.237-46.416H114.26z M161.629,474.404h-49.592l9.594-29.225h69.223
C181.113,454.921,171.371,464.663,161.629,474.404z"/>
/* Some more code goes on */
</g>
</svg>
You can observe that there are some XML tags like path, circle, polygon, etc.. There you can add your own color with help of the style attribute. Look at the below example
<path fill="#AB7C94" d="M114.26,436.584L99.023,483h301.953l-15.237-46.416H114.26z M161.629,474.404h-49.592l9.594-29.225h69.223
C181.113,454.921,171.371,464.663,161.629,474.404z"/>
Add the style attribute to all the tags so that you can get your SVG of your required color.
As per Daniel's comment, we can use fill attribute directly instead of fill element inside style attribute.
You can't change the color of an image that way. If you load SVG as an image, you can't change how it is displayed using CSS or JavaScript in the browser.
If you want to change your SVG image, you have to load it using <object>, <iframe> or using <svg> inline.
If you want to use the techniques in the page, you need the Modernizr library, where you can check for SVG support and conditionally display or not a fallback image. You can then inline your SVG and apply the styles you need.
See:
#time-3-icon {
fill: green;
}
.my-svg-alternate {
display: none;
}
.no-svg .my-svg-alternate {
display: block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-image: url(image.png);
}
<svg width="96px" height="96px" viewBox="0 0 512 512" enable-background="new 0 0 512 512" xml:space="preserve">
<path id="time-3-icon" d="M256,50C142.229,50,50,142.229,50,256c0,113.77,92.229,206,206,206c113.77,0,206-92.23,206-206
C462,142.229,369.77,50,256,50z M256,417c-88.977,0-161-72.008-161-161c0-88.979,72.008-161,161-161c88.977,0,161,72.007,161,161
C417,344.977,344.992,417,256,417z M382.816,265.785c1.711,0.297,2.961,1.781,2.961,3.518v0.093c0,1.72-1.223,3.188-2.914,3.505
c-37.093,6.938-124.97,21.35-134.613,21.35c-13.808,0-25-11.192-25-25c0-9.832,14.79-104.675,21.618-143.081
c0.274-1.542,1.615-2.669,3.181-2.669h0.008c1.709,0,3.164,1.243,3.431,2.932l18.933,119.904L382.816,265.785z"/>
</svg>
<image class="my-svg-alternate" width="96" height="96" src="ppngfallback.png" />
You can inline your SVG. Tag your fallback image with a class name (my-svg-alternate):
<svg width="96px" height="96px" viewBox="0 0 512 512" enable-background="new 0 0 512 512" xml:space="preserve">
<path id="time-3-icon" .../>
</svg>
<image class="my-svg-alternate" width="96" height="96" src="ppngfallback.png" />
And in CSS use the no-svg class from Modernizr (CDN: http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/modernizr/modernizr-2.7.2.js ) to check for SVG support. If there isn't any SVG support, the SVG block will be ignored and the image will be displayed, otherwise the image will be removed from the DOM tree (display: none):
.my-svg-alternate {
display: none;
}
.no-svg .my-svg-alternate {
display: block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-image: url(image.png);
}
Then you can change the color of your inlined element:
#time-3-icon {
fill: green;
}
If you want to change the color dynamically:
Open the SVG in a code editor
Add or rewrite the attribute of fill of every path to fill="currentColor"
Now, that svg will take the color of your font color, so you can do something like:
svg {
color : "red";
}
Only SVG with path information. You can't do that to the image... as the path you can change stroke and fill information and you are done. like Adobe Illustrator
So, via CSS you can overwrite the path fill value:
path { fill: orange; }
But if you want a more flexible way as you want to change it with a text when having some hovering effect going on, use:
path { fill: currentColor; }
body {
background: #ddd;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 2em;
}
.parent {
width: 320px;
height: 50px;
display: block;
transition: all 0.3s;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 12px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
/*** desired colors for children ***/
.parent{
color: #000;
background: #def;
}
.parent:hover{
color: #fff;
background: #85c1fc;
}
.parent span{
font-size: 18px;
margin-right: 8px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: 'Helvetica';
line-height: 26px;
vertical-align: top;
}
.parent svg{
max-height: 26px;
width: auto;
display: inline;
}
/**** magic trick *****/
.parent svg path{
fill: currentcolor;
}
<div class='parent'>
<span>TEXT WITH SVG</span>
<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="128" height="128" viewBox="0 0 32 32">
<path d="M30.148 5.588c-2.934-3.42-7.288-5.588-12.148-5.588-8.837 0-16 7.163-16 16s7.163 16 16 16c4.86 0 9.213-2.167 12.148-5.588l-10.148-10.412 10.148-10.412zM22 3.769c1.232 0 2.231 0.999 2.231 2.231s-0.999 2.231-2.231 2.231-2.231-0.999-2.231-2.231c0-1.232 0.999-2.231 2.231-2.231z"></path>
</svg>
</div>
I added a test page - to color SVG via Filter settings:
For example,
filter: invert(0.5) sepia(1) saturate(5) hue-rotate(175deg)
Upload & Color your SVG - Jsfiddle
I took the idea from: Swapping Fill Color on Image Tag SVGs
Solution 1 - Edit SVG to point to the currentColor
<svg>... fill: currentColor stroke: currentColor ...</svg>
Then you can control the color of the stroke and the fill from your CSS content:
svg {
color: blue; /* Or any color of your choice. */
}
Pros and cons:
Simple and uses conventional supported CSS.
Suitable if:
You control the SVG
SVG can be included inline in the HTML.
Solution 2 - CSS mask property
<i class="icon"></i>
.icon {
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
-webkit-mask-image: url(https://url.of.svg/....svg);
mask-image: url(https://url.of.svg/....svg);
background-color: blue; /* Or any color of your choice. */
width: 20px;
height: 20px;
}
}
Pros and cons
Relatively easy to use
Browser support for the mask CSS property is partial.
Suitable if:
SVG is external, and included via URL
Meant to be used on modern known browsers.
Solution 3 - CSS Filter property - static color
If the color is known in advance, you can use https://codepen.io/sosuke/pen/Pjoqqp to find the filter needed to change your SVG to the desired color. For example, to convert the svg to #00f:
<img src="https://url.of.svg/....svg" class="icon">
.icon {
filter: invert(8%) sepia(100%) saturate(6481%) hue-rotate(246deg) brightness(102%) contrast(143%);
}
If your original color isn't black, prefix the list of filters with brightness(0) saturate(100%) to convert it first to black.
Pros and cons:
There might be a small, nonsignificant difference between the result and the desired color.
Suitable if:
Desired color is known in advance.
External image
SVG mask on a box element with a background color will result:
body{ overflow:hidden; }
.icon {
--size: 70px;
display: inline-block;
width: var(--size);
height: var(--size);
transition: .12s;
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
}
.icon-bike {
background: black;
animation: 4s frames infinite linear;
-webkit-mask-image: url(https://image.flaticon.com/icons/svg/89/89139.svg);
mask-image: url(https://image.flaticon.com/icons/svg/89/89139.svg);
}
#keyframes frames {
0% { transform:translatex(100vw) }
25% { background: red; }
75% { background: lime; }
100% { transform:translatex(-100%) }
}
<i class="icon icon-bike" style="--size:150px"></i>
Note - SVG masks are not supported in Internet Explorer browsers
The easiest way would be to create a font out of the SVG using a service like https://icomoon.io/app/#/select or such. Upload your SVG, click "generate font", include font files and CSS content into your side and just use and style it like any other text. I always use it like this because it makes styling much easier.
But as mentioned in the article commented by #CodeMouse92, icon fonts mess up screen readers (and are possibly bad for SEO). So rather stick to the SVGs.
You can try to color it with this css filter hack:
.colorize-pink {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(-70deg) saturate(5);
}
.colorize-navy {
filter: brightness(0.2) sepia(1) hue-rotate(180deg) saturate(5);
}
.colorize-blue {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(140deg) saturate(6);
}
To simply change the color of the SVG file:
Go to the SVG file and under styles, mention the color in fill:
<style>.cls-1{fill: #FFFFFF;}</style>
Target the path within the 'svg' tag:
<svg>
<path>....
</svg>
You can do it inline, like:
<path fill="#ccc">
Or
svg{
path{
fill: #ccc
To change the color of an SVG element, I have found out a way while inspecting the Google search box search icon below:
.search_icon {
color: red;
fill: currentColor;
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
<span class="search_icon">
<svg focusable="false" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M15.5 14h-.79l-.28-.27A6.471 6.471 0 0 0 16 9.5 6.5 6.5 0 1 0 9.5 16c1.61 0 3.09-.59 4.23-1.57l.27.28v.79l5 4.99L20.49 19l-4.99-5zm-6 0C7.01 14 5 11.99 5 9.5S7.01 5 9.5 5 14 7.01 14 9.5 11.99 14 9.5 14z"></path></svg>
</span>
I have used a span element with "display:inline-block", height, width and setting a particular style "color: red; fill: currentColor;" to that span tag which is inherited by the child svg element.
You can change SVG coloring with CSS if you use some tricks.
I wrote a small script for that.
go through a list of elements which do have an SVG image
load the SVG file as XML
fetch only the SVG part
change color of path
replace src with the modified SVG image as an inline image
$('img.svg-changeable').each(function () {
var $e = $(this);
var imgURL = $e.prop('src');
$.get(imgURL, function (data) {
// Get the SVG tag, ignore the rest
var $svg = $(data).find('svg');
// Change the color
$svg.find('path').attr('fill', '#000');
$e.prop('src', "data:image/svg+xml;base64," + window.btoa($svg.prop('outerHTML')));
});
});
The code above might not be working correctly. I've implemented this for elements with an SVG background image which works nearly similar to this.
But anyway, you have to modify this script to fit your case.
Method 1
The easy and effect way:
Open your .svg file with any text editor
<svg version="1.1" id="Capa_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
viewBox="0 0 477.526 477.526" style="enable-background:new 0 0 477.526 477.526;
fill: rgb(109, 248, 248);" xml:space="preserve">
<svg />
Give an style attribute and fill that with color.
Another way
Fill with color in your shape. Here i have rect shape fill="white".
<svg width="800" height="600" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<g>
<title>background</title>
<rect fill="#fff" id="canvas_background" height="602" width="802" y="-1"
x="-1"/>
<g display="none" overflow="visible" y="0" x="0" height="100%" width="100%"
id="canvasGrid">
<rect fill="url(#gridpattern)" stroke-width="0" y="0" x="0" height="100%"
width="100%"/>
</g>
</g>
</svg>
2022 Web Component <load-file> answer
This (8 line) native Web Component loads external content, and injects it into the DOM.
It is explained and documented in a DEV blog post: <load-file> Web Component.
Full source code:
customElements.define("load-file", class extends HTMLElement {
// declare default connectedCallback as sync so await can be used
async connectedCallback(
// call connectedCallback with parameter to *replace* SVG (of <load-file> persists)
src = this.getAttribute("src"),
// attach a shadowRoot if none exists (prevents displaying error when moving Nodes)
// declare as parameter to save 4 Bytes: 'let '
shadowRoot = this.shadowRoot || this.attachShadow({mode:"open"})
) {
// load SVG file from src="" async, parse to text, add to shadowRoot.innerHTML
shadowRoot.innerHTML = await (await fetch(src)).text()
// append optional <tag [shadowRoot]> Elements from inside <load-svg> after parsed <svg>
shadowRoot.append(...this.querySelectorAll("[shadowRoot]"))
// if "replaceWith" attribute
// then replace <load-svg> with loaded content <load-svg>
// childNodes instead of children to include #textNodes also
this.hasAttribute("replaceWith") && this.replaceWith(...shadowRoot.childNodes)
}
})
<load-file src="//load-file.github.io/heart.svg">
<!-- elements inside load-file are MOVED to shadowDOM -->
<style shadowRoot>
svg {
height: 180px; /* Stack Overflow subwindow height */
}
path:nth-child(2n+2) {
fill: GREEN; /* shadowDOM style does NOT style global DOM */
}
</style>
</load-file>
If the same SVG must be used multiple times with different colors, define the set of paths within a hidden SVG which serves as the master copy. Then place new instances which refer to the master path with their individual fills.
Note: This approach only works with inline <svg> tags. It will not work with <img> tags loading .svg files.
:root {
fill: gray;
}
.hidden {
display: none;
}
svg {
width: 1em;
height: 1em;
}
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="hidden">
<path id="s_fave" d="m379 21c-57 0-104 53-123 78-19-25-66-78-123-78-74 0-133 68-133 151 0 45 18 88 49 116 0.5 0.8 1 2 2 2l197 197c2 2 5 3 8 3s5-1 8-3l206-206c2-2 3-3 5-5 0.8-0.8 1-2 2-3 23-28 35-64 35-102 0-83-60-151-133-151z"/>
<path id="s_star" d="m511 196c-3-10-13-18-23-19l-148-13-58-137c-4-10-14-17-25-17-11 0-21 6-25 17l-58 137-148 13c-11 1-20 8-23 19-3 10-0.3 22 8 29l112 98-33 145c-2 11 2 22 11 28 5 3 10 5 16 5 5 0 10-1 14-4l127-76 127 76c9 6 21 5 30-1 9-6 13-17 11-28l-33-145 112-98c8-7 11-19 8-29z"/>
</svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_fave"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_star"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_fave" fill="red"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_star" fill="gold"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_fave" fill="purple"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_star" fill="silver"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_fave" fill="pink"></use></svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use href="#s_star" fill="blue"></use></svg>
Here the fast and furious way :)
body {
background-color: #DEFF05;
}
svg {
width: 30%;
height: auto;
}
svg path {
color: red;
fill: currentcolor;
}
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" id="Capa_1" x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 514.666 514.666"><path d="M514.666,210.489L257.333,99.353L0,210.489l45.933,19.837v123.939h30V243.282l33.052,14.274v107.678l4.807,4.453 c2.011,1.862,50.328,45.625,143.542,45.625c93.213,0,141.53-43.763,143.541-45.626l4.807-4.452V257.557L514.666,210.489z M257.333,132.031L439,210.489l-181.667,78.458L75.666,210.489L257.333,132.031z M375.681,351.432 c-13.205,9.572-53.167,33.881-118.348,33.881c-65.23,0-105.203-24.345-118.348-33.875v-80.925l118.348,51.112l118.348-51.111 V351.432z"></path></svg>
For example, in your HTML:
<body>
<svg viewBox="" width="" height="">
<path id="struct1" fill="#xxxxxx" d="M203.3,71.6c-.........."></path>
</svg>
</body>
Use jQuery:
$("#struct1").css("fill", "<desired colour>");
Check out this code. It works.
<div>
<!-- YouTube -->
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 576 512">
<path fill="white"
d="M549.655 124.083c-6.281-23.65-24.787-42.276-48.284-48.597C458.781 64 288 64 288 64S117.22 64 74.629 75.486c-23.497 6.322-42.003 24.947-48.284 48.597-11.412 42.867-11.412 132.305-11.412 132.305s0 89.438 11.412 132.305c6.281 23.65 24.787 41.5 48.284 47.821C117.22 448 288 448 288 448s170.78 0 213.371-11.486c23.497-6.321 42.003-24.171 48.284-47.821 11.412-42.867 11.412-132.305 11.412-132.305s0-89.438-11.412-132.305zm-317.51 213.508V175.185l142.739 81.205-142.739 81.201z" />
</svg>
<!-- Instagram -->
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512">
<path fill="white"
d="M224.1 141c-63.6 0-114.9 51.3-114.9 114.9s51.3 114.9 114.9 114.9S339 319.5 339 255.9 287.7 141 224.1 141zm0 189.6c-41.1 0-74.7-33.5-74.7-74.7s33.5-74.7 74.7-74.7 74.7 33.5 74.7 74.7-33.6 74.7-74.7 74.7zm146.4-194.3c0 14.9-12 26.8-26.8 26.8-14.9 0-26.8-12-26.8-26.8s12-26.8 26.8-26.8 26.8 12 26.8 26.8zm76.1 27.2c-1.7-35.9-9.9-67.7-36.2-93.9-26.2-26.2-58-34.4-93.9-36.2-37-2.1-147.9-2.1-184.9 0-35.8 1.7-67.6 9.9-93.9 36.1s-34.4 58-36.2 93.9c-2.1 37-2.1 147.9 0 184.9 1.7 35.9 9.9 67.7 36.2 93.9s58 34.4 93.9 36.2c37 2.1 147.9 2.1 184.9 0 35.9-1.7 67.7-9.9 93.9-36.2 26.2-26.2 34.4-58 36.2-93.9 2.1-37 2.1-147.8 0-184.8zM398.8 388c-7.8 19.6-22.9 34.7-42.6 42.6-29.5 11.7-99.5 9-132.1 9s-102.7 2.6-132.1-9c-19.6-7.8-34.7-22.9-42.6-42.6-11.7-29.5-9-99.5-9-132.1s-2.6-102.7 9-132.1c7.8-19.6 22.9-34.7 42.6-42.6 29.5-11.7 99.5-9 132.1-9s102.7-2.6 132.1 9c19.6 7.8 34.7 22.9 42.6 42.6 11.7 29.5 9 99.5 9 132.1s2.7 102.7-9 132.1z" />
</svg>
</div>
CSS
svg {
fill: white;
}
For a better resolution about Manish Menaria's (thank you so much for your help) response, use this filter generator instead a purposed generator: https://angel-rs.github.io/css-color-filter-generator/
.filter-green{
filter: invert(48%) sepia(79%) saturate(2476%) hue-rotate(86deg) brightness(118%) contrast(119%);
}
Use an svg <mask> element.
This is better than other solutions because:
Closely matches your original code.
Works in IE!
The embedded image can still be an external, unmodified file.
The image does not even have to be an SVG.
Color is inherited from font-color, so easy to use alongside text.
Color is a normal CSS color, not a strange combination of filters.
<svg style="color: green; width: 96px; height: 96px" viewBox="0 0 100 100" preserveAspectRatio="none">
<defs>
<mask id="fillMask" x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100">
<image xlink:href="https://svgur.com/i/AFM.svg" x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100" src="ppngfallback.png" />
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100" style="stroke: none; fill: currentColor" mask="url("#fillMask")" />
</svg>
https://jsfiddle.net/jamiegl/5jaL0s1t/19/
If you want to do this to an inline SVG file, that is, for example, a background image in your CSS content:
background: url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' fill='rgba(31,159,215,1)' viewBox='...'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
Of course, replace the ... with your inline image code.
There are some problems with Manish Menaria's answer, if we convert white color it shows gray.
So I added some tweaks, and the below example specifically shows how to change the color in the material icon:
<mat-icon class="draft-white" svgIcon="draft" aria-hidden="false"></mat-icon>
.draft-white{
filter: brightness(0) invert(1);
}
You can use a font icon to use any CSS option in SVG
I was searching for a way to have any CSS options, like animation for SVG, and I ended up to generate a font icon with my SVG(s) and then used it inside a span (like Font Awesome), so any CSS option, like coloring, was available on it.
I used https://icomoon.io to convert my SVG image to a font icon. Then you can use it like Font Awesome or MaterialIcon inside HTML elements.
I found it a bit clumsy, but it is definitely a working way to dynamically change the color of an SVG included with <img> tag.
In the SVG file, you can add CSS content the following way:
<svg ...>
<defs>
<style>
...
<style>
<defs>
There you can use #media rules, with which the SVG can look outside itself for contextual circumstances. There's an aspect-ratio media feature that applies to the SVG box (e.g., the <img> tag). You can create different contexts for the SVG by stretching the SVG box a little bit.
This way you can also make the favicon the same SVG that appears on the website, but with a different color. (In this case, no other SVG boxes should be square-shaped.)
/* img stretched horizontally (if SVG is square-shaped) */
#media (min-aspect-ratio: 1000/999) {
path {
fill: blue;
}
}
/* img stretched vertically (if SVG is square-shaped) */
#media (max-aspect-ratio: 999/1000) {
path {
fill: green;
}
}
/* img with exact sizes */
#media (aspect-ratio: 86/74) {
path {
fill: red;
}
}
/* favicon with light browser theme */
#media (aspect-ratio: 1/1) and (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
path {
fill: black;
}
}
/* favicon with dark browser theme */
#media (aspect-ratio: 1/1) and (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
path {
fill: white;
}
}
One very important thing
The SVG must contain viewBox information, so that the stretching does not affect the graphics. Example:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="300" height="300" viewBox="0 0 300 300">
Actually, there is a quite more flexible solution to this problem: writing a Web Component which will patch SVG as text at runtime. I also published in a gist with a link to JSFiddle.
👍 filter: invert(42%) sepia(93%) saturate(1352%) hue-rotate(87deg) brightness(119%) contrast(119%);
<html>
<head>
<title>SVG with color</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
(function () {
const createSvg = (color = '#ff9933') => `
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="1.1" width="76px" height="22px" viewBox="-0.5 -0.5 76 22">
<defs/>
<g>
<ellipse cx="5" cy="10" rx="5" ry="5" fill="#ff9933" stroke="none" pointer-events="all"/>
<ellipse cx="70" cy="10" rx="5" ry="5" fill="#ff9933" stroke="none" pointer-events="all"/>
<path d="M 9.47 12.24 L 17.24 16.12 Q 25 20 30 13 L 32.5 9.5 Q 35 6 40 9 L 42.5 10.5 Q 45 12 50 6 L 52.5 3 Q 55 0 60.73 3.23 L 66.46 6.46" fill="none" stroke="#ff9933" stroke-miterlimit="10" pointer-events="stroke"/>
</g>
</svg>`.split('#ff9933').join(color);
function SvgWithColor() {
const div = Reflect.construct(HTMLElement, [], SvgWithColor);
const color = div.hasAttribute('color') ? div.getAttribute('color') : 'cyan';
div.innerHTML = createSvg(color);
return div;
}
SvgWithColor.prototype = Object.create(HTMLElement.prototype);
customElements.define('svg-with-color', SvgWithColor);
document.body.innerHTML += `<svg-with-color
color='magenta'
></svg-with-color>`;
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>
My answer would be this. But I’m not 100% sure if it works for everyone:
Select 'svg' and then 'path'. And you can change 'fill' then.
.eye-icon-container {
width: 33px;
height: 33px;
border-radius: 5px;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
:hover {
background-color: #ddf0ff;
}
:active {
background-color: #1d398d;
svg {
path {
fill: #fff;
}
}
}
}
If you have a single-colour SVG with varying opacities that you simply want to tint to a different colour then there is another approach that can be used: the feFlood SVG filter.
This solution is not as straightforward as a single-line CSS, however:
It works on SVGs inside of an img element.
This doesn't require editing the source SVG at all.
It allows you to simply choose a target colour for the SVG and not worry about complex colour transforms, like hue-rotate.
Here is an example:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="0" height="0">
<defs>
<filter id="recolourFilter" filterUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
<feFlood flood-color="aquamarine" result="flood" />
<feComposite in="flood" in2="SourceAlpha" operator="in" />
</filter>
</defs>
</svg>
<img style="filter: url(#recolourFilter);" width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Bitmap_VS_SVG.svg" />
In the above example, we create an inline SVG to define the filters and then we apply it to the image. Inside of the <filter> block we first define the fill colour that we want via <feFlood> and then we create a composite image using the alpha channel of the source plus the flood colour. Finally, the filter is applied to the whole image via the filter CSS property on the img element.
I learned about this technique from this Smashing Magasine article. It's a highly recommended read if you want to learn more about SVG filters.
A few additional things to note:
This filter can be applied to any HTML element via the CSS filter property.
The same filter can be reused multiple times on the same page.
If you are using an inline SVG then the <defs> block can form part of the svg element and the filter can still be applied to the whole SVG or on selective elements. This avoids needing a separate SVG element for the filters.
A good approach is to use a mixin to control stroke colour and fill colour. My 'svg's are used as icons.
#mixin icon($color, $hoverColor) {
svg {
fill: $color;
circle, line, path {
fill: $color
}
&:hover {
fill: $hoverColor;
circle, line, path {
fill: $hoverColor;
}
}
}
}
You can then do the following in your SCSS file:
.container {
#include icon(white, blue);
}

SVG polygon fill declared in css class not working [duplicate]

Placing the SVG output directly inline with the page code I am able to simply modify fill colors with CSS like so:
polygon.mystar {
fill: blue;
}​
circle.mycircle {
fill: green;
}
This works great, however I'm looking for a way to modify the "fill" attribute of an SVG when it's being served as a BACKGROUND-IMAGE.
html {
background-image: url(../img/bg.svg);
}
How can I change the colors now? Is it even possible?
For reference, here are the contents of my external SVG file:
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
width="320px" height="100px" viewBox="0 0 320 100" enable-background="new 0 0 320 100" xml:space="preserve">
<polygon class="mystar" fill="#3CB54A" points="134.973,14.204 143.295,31.066 161.903,33.77 148.438,46.896 151.617,65.43 134.973,56.679
118.329,65.43 121.507,46.896 108.042,33.77 126.65,31.066 "/>
<circle class="mycircle" fill="#ED1F24" cx="202.028" cy="58.342" r="12.26"/>
</svg>
You can use CSS masks, With the 'mask' property, you create a mask that is applied to an element.
.icon {
background-color: red;
-webkit-mask-image: url(icon.svg);
mask-image: url(icon.svg);
}
For more see this great article: https://codepen.io/noahblon/post/coloring-svgs-in-css-background-images
I needed something similar and wanted to stick with CSS. Here are LESS and SCSS mixins as well as plain CSS that can help you with this. Unfortunately, it's browser support is a bit lax. See below for details on browser support.
LESS mixin:
.element-color(#color) {
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="#{color}" ... /></g></svg>');
}
LESS usage:
.element-color(#fff);
SCSS mixin:
#mixin element-color($color) {
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="#{$color}" ... /></g></svg>');
}
SCSS usage:
#include element-color(#fff);
CSS:
// color: red
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="red" ... /></g></svg>');
Here is more info on embedding the full SVG code into your CSS file. It also mentioned browser compatibility which is a bit too small for this to be a viable option.
One way to do this is to serve your svg from some server side mechanism.
Simply create a resource server side that outputs your svg according to GET parameters, and you serve it on a certain url.
Then you just use that url in your css.
Because as a background img, it isn't part of the DOM and you can't manipulate it.
Another possibility would be to use it regularly, embed it in a page in a normal way, but position it absolutely, make it full width & height of a page and then use z-index css property to put it behind all the other DOM elements on a page.
Yet another approach is to use mask. You then change the background color of the masked element. This has the same effect as changing the fill attribute of the svg.
HTML:
<glyph class="star"/>
<glyph class="heart" />
<glyph class="heart" style="background-color: green"/>
<glyph class="heart" style="background-color: blue"/>
CSS:
glyph {
display: inline-block;
width: 24px;
height: 24px;
}
glyph.star {
-webkit-mask: url(star.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
mask: url(star.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
background-color: yellow;
}
glyph.heart {
-webkit-mask: url(heart.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
mask: url(heart.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
background-color: red;
}
You will find a full tutorial here: http://codepen.io/noahblon/blog/coloring-svgs-in-css-background-images (not my own). It proposes a variety of approaches (not limited to mask).
Use the sepia filter along with hue-rotate, brightness, and saturation to create any color we want.
.colorize-pink {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(-70deg) saturate(5);
}
https://css-tricks.com/solved-with-css-colorizing-svg-backgrounds/
It's possible with Sass!
The only thing you have to do is to url-encode your svg code. And this is possible with a helper function in Sass. I've made a codepen for this. Look at this:
http://codepen.io/philippkuehn/pen/zGEjxB
// choose a color
$icon-color: #F84830;
// functions to urlencode the svg string
#function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') {
$index: str-index($string, $search);
#if $index {
#return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
}
#return $string;
}
#function url-encode($string) {
$map: (
"%": "%25",
"<": "%3C",
">": "%3E",
" ": "%20",
"!": "%21",
"*": "%2A",
"'": "%27",
'"': "%22",
"(": "%28",
")": "%29",
";": "%3B",
":": "%3A",
"#": "%40",
"&": "%26",
"=": "%3D",
"+": "%2B",
"$": "%24",
",": "%2C",
"/": "%2F",
"?": "%3F",
"#": "%23",
"[": "%5B",
"]": "%5D"
);
$new: $string;
#each $search, $replace in $map {
$new: str-replace($new, $search, $replace);
}
#return $new;
}
#function inline-svg($string) {
#return url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{url-encode($string)}');
}
// icon styles
// note the fill="' + $icon-color + '"
.icon {
display: inline-block;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
background: inline-svg('<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
viewBox="0 0 30 30" enable-background="new 0 0 30 30" xml:space="preserve">
<path fill="' + $icon-color + '" d="M18.7,10.1c-0.6,0.7-1,1.6-0.9,2.6c0,0.7-0.6,0.8-0.9,0.3c-1.1-2.1-0.4-5.1,0.7-7.2c0.2-0.4,0-0.8-0.5-0.7
c-5.8,0.8-9,6.4-6.4,12c0.1,0.3-0.2,0.6-0.5,0.5c-0.6-0.3-1.1-0.7-1.6-1.3c-0.2-0.3-0.4-0.5-0.6-0.8c-0.2-0.4-0.7-0.3-0.8,0.3
c-0.5,2.5,0.3,5.3,2.1,7.1c4.4,4.5,13.9,1.7,13.4-5.1c-0.2-2.9-3.2-4.2-3.3-7.1C19.6,10,19.1,9.6,18.7,10.1z"/>
</svg>');
}
.icon {
width: 48px;
height: 48px;
display: inline-block;
background: url(https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/18515/heart.svg) no-repeat 50% 50%;
background-size: cover;
}
.icon-orange {
-webkit-filter: hue-rotate(40deg) saturate(0.5) brightness(390%) saturate(4);
filter: hue-rotate(40deg) saturate(0.5) brightness(390%) saturate(4);
}
.icon-yellow {
-webkit-filter: hue-rotate(70deg) saturate(100);
filter: hue-rotate(70deg) saturate(100);
}
codeben article and demo
Now you can achieve this on the client side like this:
var green = '3CB54A';
var red = 'ED1F24';
var svg = '<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" width="320px" height="100px" viewBox="0 0 320 100" enable-background="new 0 0 320 100" xml:space="preserve"> <polygon class="mystar" fill="#'+green+'" points="134.973,14.204 143.295,31.066 161.903,33.77 148.438,46.896 151.617,65.43 134.973,56.679 118.329,65.43 121.507,46.896 108.042,33.77 126.65,31.066 "/><circle class="mycircle" fill="#'+red+'" cx="202.028" cy="58.342" r="12.26"/></svg>';
var encoded = window.btoa(svg);
document.body.style.background = "url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,"+encoded+")";
Fiddle here!
Download your svg as text.
Modify your svg text using javascript to change the paint/stroke/fill color[s].
Then embed the modified svg string inline into your css as described here.
If you are trying to use and SVG directly on CSS with url() like this;
a:before {
content: url('data:image/svg+xml; utf8, <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" x="0" y="0" viewBox="0 0 451 451"><path d="M345.441,2...
You should encode the # to %23, otherwise it won't work.
<svg fill="%23FFF" ...
You can store the SVG in a variable. Then manipulate the SVG string depending on your needs (i.e., set width, height, color, etc). Then use the result to set the background, e.g.
$circle-icon-svg: '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle cx="10" cy="10" r="10" /></svg>';
$icon-color: #f00;
$icon-color-hover: #00f;
#function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') {
$index: str-index($string, $search);
#if $index {
#return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
}
#return $string;
}
#function svg-fill ($svg, $color) {
#return str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg fill="#{$color}"');
}
#function svg-size ($svg, $width, $height) {
$svg: str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg width="#{$width}"');
$svg: str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg height="#{$height}"');
#return $svg;
}
.icon {
$icon-svg: svg-size($circle-icon-svg, 20, 20);
width: 20px; height: 20px; background: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{svg-fill($icon-svg, $icon-color)}');
&:hover {
background: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{svg-fill($icon-svg, $icon-color-hover)}');
}
}
I have made a demo too, http://sassmeister.com/gist/4cf0265c5d0143a9e734.
This code makes a few assumptions about the SVG, e.g. that <svg /> element does not have an existing fill colour and that neither width or height properties are set. Since the input is hardcoded in the SCSS document, it is quite easy to enforce these constraints.
Do not worry about the code duplication. gzip compression makes the difference negligible.
You can use the brightness filter, any value greater than 1 makes the element brighter, and any value less than 1 makes it darker. So, we can make those light SVG’s dark, and vice versa, for example, this will make the svg darker:
filter: brightness(0);
In order to change the color and not only brightness level we can use sepia filter along with hue-rotate, brightness, for example:
.colorize-blue {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(140deg) saturate(6);
}
You can create your own SCSS function for this. Adding the following to your config.rb file.
require 'sass'
require 'cgi'
module Sass::Script::Functions
def inline_svg_image(path, fill)
real_path = File.join(Compass.configuration.images_path, path.value)
svg = data(real_path)
svg.gsub! '{color}', fill.value
encoded_svg = CGI::escape(svg).gsub('+', '%20')
data_url = "url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8," + encoded_svg + "')"
Sass::Script::String.new(data_url)
end
private
def data(real_path)
if File.readable?(real_path)
File.open(real_path, "rb") {|io| io.read}
else
raise Compass::Error, "File not found or cannot be read: #{real_path}"
end
end
end
Then you can use it in your CSS:
.icon {
background-image: inline-svg-image('icons/icon.svg', '#555');
}
You will need to edit your SVG files and replace any fill attributes in the markup with fill="{color}"
The icon path is always relative to your images_dir parameter in the same config.rb file.
Similar to some of the other solutions, but this is pretty clean and keeps your SCSS files tidy!
In some (very specific) situations this might be achieved by using a filter. For example, you can change a blue SVG image to purple by rotating the hue 45 degrees using filter: hue-rotate(45deg);. Browser support is minimal but it's still an interesting technique.
Demo
If you wanna swap in a simple way from white to black or some like that, try this:
filter: invert(100%);
for monochrome background you could use a svg with a mask, where the background color should be displayed
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" focusable="false" style="pointer-events: none; display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%;" >
<defs>
<mask id="Mask">
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="#fff" />
<polyline stroke-width="2.5" stroke="black" stroke-linecap="square" fill="none" transform="translate(10.373882, 8.762969) rotate(-315.000000) translate(-10.373882, -8.762969) " points="7.99893906 13.9878427 12.7488243 13.9878427 12.7488243 3.53809523"></polyline>
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="20" height="20" fill="white" mask="url(#Mask)" />
</svg>
and than use this css
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
background-size: contain;
background-image: url(your/path/to.svg);
background-color: var(--color);
Since this comes up on Google despite the age, I thought I might as well give a solution that I'm employing in the distant future of 2022 after looking at the options here.
This is really just the mask solution from before, but on a pseudo-element.
.icon {
height: 1.5rem;
width: 1.5rem;
}
.icon::before {
content: "";
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
mask-repeat: no-repeat;
mask-position: center;
mask-size: contain;
mask-image: url("path/to/svg/icon.svg");
-webkit-mask-repeat: no-repeat;
-webkit-mask-position: center;
-webkit-mask-size: contain;
-webkit-mask-image: url("path/to/svg/icon.svg");
}
This works in all major browsers today, although obviously you can't have an SVG with multiple colors using this. That's the cost of business if the site doesn't let you inject them inline, or if you don't fancy doing font icons, etc.
Late to the show here, BUT, I was able to add a fill color to the SVG polygon, if you're able to directly edit the SVG code, so for example the following svg renders red, instead of default black. I have not tested outside of Chrome though:
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
width="500px" height="500px" viewBox="0 0 500 500" enable-background="new 0 0 500 500" xml:space="preserve">
<polygon
fill="red"
fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" points="452.5,233.85 452.5,264.55 110.15,264.2 250.05,390.3 229.3,413.35
47.5,250.7 229.3,86.7 250.05,109.75 112.5,233.5 "/>
</svg>
The only way i found for this, and to be cross browser (aka bulletproof), is to render the SVG with PHP and pass Query String to set the color.
The SVG, here called "arrow.php"
<?php
$fill = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'fill');
$fill = strtolower($fill);
$fill = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9]/", '', $fill);
if(empty($fill)) $fill = "000000";
header('Content-type: image/svg+xml');
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>';
?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="7.4" height="12" viewBox="0 0 7.4 12">
<g>
<path d="M8.6,7.4,10,6l6,6-6,6L8.6,16.6,13.2,12Z" transform="translate(-8.6 -6)" fill="#<?php echo htmlspecialchars($fill); ?>" fill-rule="evenodd"/>
</g>
</svg>
Then you call the image like this
.cssclass{ background-image: url(arrow.php?fill=112233); }
Works only with PHP. And remember that everytime you change the color value, your browser will load a new image.
scss create function
#function url-svg($icon) {
#return url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{str-replace($icon, "#", "%23")}");
}
scss use
url-svg('<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M13.125 0H1.875C0.84082 0 0 0.84082 0 1.875V10.3125C0 11.3467 0.84082 12.1875 1.875 12.1875H4.6875V14.6484C4.6875 14.9355 5.01563 15.1025 5.24707 14.9326L8.90625 12.1875H13.125C14.1592 12.1875 15 11.3467 15 10.3125V1.875C15 0.84082 14.1592 0 13.125 0Z" fill="#8A8A8F"/></svg>')
css generated
url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M13.125 0H1.875C0.84082 0 0 0.84082 0 1.875V10.3125C0 11.3467 0.84082 12.1875 1.875 12.1875H4.6875V14.6484C4.6875 14.9355 5.01563 15.1025 5.24707 14.9326L8.90625 12.1875H13.125C14.1592 12.1875 15 11.3467 15 10.3125V1.875C15 0.84082 14.1592 0 13.125 0Z" fill="%238A8A8F"/></svg>')
The str-replace function is used from bootstrap.
Here is another solution using a gradient and a monochrome icon as background and background-blend-mode to colorize the icon.
It requires the background-color to be white, else the whole background gets colored. I only tested on Chrome.
.colored-background {
background-image: linear-gradient(45deg, green, green), url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=US-ASCII,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22292.4%22%20height%3D%22292.4%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23000000%22%20d%3D%22M287%2069.4a17.6%2017.6%200%200%200-13-5.4H18.4c-5%200-9.3%201.8-12.9%205.4A17.6%2017.6%200%200%200%200%2082.2c0%205%201.8%209.3%205.4%2012.9l128%20127.9c3.6%203.6%207.8%205.4%2012.8%205.4s9.2-1.8%2012.8-5.4L287%2095c3.5-3.5%205.4-7.8%205.4-12.8%200-5-1.9-9.2-5.5-12.8z%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E');
background-color: #fff;
background-blend-mode: lighten, normal;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center, center right .8em;
background-size: auto, 0.6em;
color: red;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
padding: 0.5em;
padding-right: 2em;
height: 1.6em;
width: auto;
border: 1px solid gray;
}
.bg {
background-color: #ddd;
padding: 1em;
}
<div class="bg">
<div class="colored-background">green icon from black svg</div>
</div>
Related to a closed question that is linked to here, but not related directly to this question.
So in case, anyone needs actually to replace src like in the linked question, there is already an answer there. Furthermore if anyone is coming from Vue, and the src path is change on compile, I've come up with a different solution.
In my case, the parent element is a link, but it could be anything really.
<a
v-for="document in documents" :key="document.uuid"
:href="document.url"
target="_blank"
class="item flex align-items-center gap-2 hover-parent"
>
<img alt="documents" class="icon" src="../assets/PDF.svg" />
<strong>{{ document.name }}</strong>
<img class="itemImage ml-auto hide-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button.svg" />
<img class="itemImage ml-auto show-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button-hover.svg" />
</a>
.hover-parent .show-on-parent-hover { display: none }
.hover-parent .hide-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover .show-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover .hide-on-parent-hover { display: none }
So the solution here is not to change src attribute, but instead to put both <img> elements in the DOM and only display the one that is needed.
If you don't have a parent element that's supposed to be hovered on, you can simply wrap both images in a div.
<div class="hover-parent" >
<img class="hide-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button.svg" />
<img class="show-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button-hover.svg" />
</div>
You might also change CSS to the following, so the .hover-parent ancestor must be a direct parent:
.hover-parent > .show-on-parent-hover { display: none }
.hover-parent > .hide-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover > .show-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover > .hide-on-parent-hover { display: none }
This is my favorite method, but your browser support must be very progressive. With the mask property you create a mask that is applied to an element. Everywhere the mask is opaque, or solid, the underlying image shows through. Where it’s transparent, the underlying image is masked out, or hidden. The syntax for a CSS mask-image is similar to background-image.look at the codepenmask
A lot of IFs, but if your pre base64 encoded SVG starts:
<svg fill="#000000
Then the base64 encoded string will start:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIjMDAwMDAw
if the pre-encoded string starts:
<svg fill="#bfa76e
then this encodes to:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIjYmZhNzZl
Both encoded strings start the same:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIj
The quirk of base64 encoding is every 3 input characters become 4 output characters. With the SVG starting like this then the 6-character hex fill color starts exactly on an encoding block 'boundary'.
Therefore you can easily do a cross-browser JS replace:
output = input.replace(/MDAwMDAw/, "YmZhNzZl");
But tnt-rox answer above is the way to go moving forward.

CSS - SVG icon as a background image: How to inherit text color? [duplicate]

Placing the SVG output directly inline with the page code I am able to simply modify fill colors with CSS like so:
polygon.mystar {
fill: blue;
}​
circle.mycircle {
fill: green;
}
This works great, however I'm looking for a way to modify the "fill" attribute of an SVG when it's being served as a BACKGROUND-IMAGE.
html {
background-image: url(../img/bg.svg);
}
How can I change the colors now? Is it even possible?
For reference, here are the contents of my external SVG file:
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
width="320px" height="100px" viewBox="0 0 320 100" enable-background="new 0 0 320 100" xml:space="preserve">
<polygon class="mystar" fill="#3CB54A" points="134.973,14.204 143.295,31.066 161.903,33.77 148.438,46.896 151.617,65.43 134.973,56.679
118.329,65.43 121.507,46.896 108.042,33.77 126.65,31.066 "/>
<circle class="mycircle" fill="#ED1F24" cx="202.028" cy="58.342" r="12.26"/>
</svg>
You can use CSS masks, With the 'mask' property, you create a mask that is applied to an element.
.icon {
background-color: red;
-webkit-mask-image: url(icon.svg);
mask-image: url(icon.svg);
}
For more see this great article: https://codepen.io/noahblon/post/coloring-svgs-in-css-background-images
I needed something similar and wanted to stick with CSS. Here are LESS and SCSS mixins as well as plain CSS that can help you with this. Unfortunately, it's browser support is a bit lax. See below for details on browser support.
LESS mixin:
.element-color(#color) {
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="#{color}" ... /></g></svg>');
}
LESS usage:
.element-color(#fff);
SCSS mixin:
#mixin element-color($color) {
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="#{$color}" ... /></g></svg>');
}
SCSS usage:
#include element-color(#fff);
CSS:
// color: red
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="red" ... /></g></svg>');
Here is more info on embedding the full SVG code into your CSS file. It also mentioned browser compatibility which is a bit too small for this to be a viable option.
One way to do this is to serve your svg from some server side mechanism.
Simply create a resource server side that outputs your svg according to GET parameters, and you serve it on a certain url.
Then you just use that url in your css.
Because as a background img, it isn't part of the DOM and you can't manipulate it.
Another possibility would be to use it regularly, embed it in a page in a normal way, but position it absolutely, make it full width & height of a page and then use z-index css property to put it behind all the other DOM elements on a page.
Yet another approach is to use mask. You then change the background color of the masked element. This has the same effect as changing the fill attribute of the svg.
HTML:
<glyph class="star"/>
<glyph class="heart" />
<glyph class="heart" style="background-color: green"/>
<glyph class="heart" style="background-color: blue"/>
CSS:
glyph {
display: inline-block;
width: 24px;
height: 24px;
}
glyph.star {
-webkit-mask: url(star.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
mask: url(star.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
background-color: yellow;
}
glyph.heart {
-webkit-mask: url(heart.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
mask: url(heart.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
background-color: red;
}
You will find a full tutorial here: http://codepen.io/noahblon/blog/coloring-svgs-in-css-background-images (not my own). It proposes a variety of approaches (not limited to mask).
Use the sepia filter along with hue-rotate, brightness, and saturation to create any color we want.
.colorize-pink {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(-70deg) saturate(5);
}
https://css-tricks.com/solved-with-css-colorizing-svg-backgrounds/
It's possible with Sass!
The only thing you have to do is to url-encode your svg code. And this is possible with a helper function in Sass. I've made a codepen for this. Look at this:
http://codepen.io/philippkuehn/pen/zGEjxB
// choose a color
$icon-color: #F84830;
// functions to urlencode the svg string
#function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') {
$index: str-index($string, $search);
#if $index {
#return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
}
#return $string;
}
#function url-encode($string) {
$map: (
"%": "%25",
"<": "%3C",
">": "%3E",
" ": "%20",
"!": "%21",
"*": "%2A",
"'": "%27",
'"': "%22",
"(": "%28",
")": "%29",
";": "%3B",
":": "%3A",
"#": "%40",
"&": "%26",
"=": "%3D",
"+": "%2B",
"$": "%24",
",": "%2C",
"/": "%2F",
"?": "%3F",
"#": "%23",
"[": "%5B",
"]": "%5D"
);
$new: $string;
#each $search, $replace in $map {
$new: str-replace($new, $search, $replace);
}
#return $new;
}
#function inline-svg($string) {
#return url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{url-encode($string)}');
}
// icon styles
// note the fill="' + $icon-color + '"
.icon {
display: inline-block;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
background: inline-svg('<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
viewBox="0 0 30 30" enable-background="new 0 0 30 30" xml:space="preserve">
<path fill="' + $icon-color + '" d="M18.7,10.1c-0.6,0.7-1,1.6-0.9,2.6c0,0.7-0.6,0.8-0.9,0.3c-1.1-2.1-0.4-5.1,0.7-7.2c0.2-0.4,0-0.8-0.5-0.7
c-5.8,0.8-9,6.4-6.4,12c0.1,0.3-0.2,0.6-0.5,0.5c-0.6-0.3-1.1-0.7-1.6-1.3c-0.2-0.3-0.4-0.5-0.6-0.8c-0.2-0.4-0.7-0.3-0.8,0.3
c-0.5,2.5,0.3,5.3,2.1,7.1c4.4,4.5,13.9,1.7,13.4-5.1c-0.2-2.9-3.2-4.2-3.3-7.1C19.6,10,19.1,9.6,18.7,10.1z"/>
</svg>');
}
.icon {
width: 48px;
height: 48px;
display: inline-block;
background: url(https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/18515/heart.svg) no-repeat 50% 50%;
background-size: cover;
}
.icon-orange {
-webkit-filter: hue-rotate(40deg) saturate(0.5) brightness(390%) saturate(4);
filter: hue-rotate(40deg) saturate(0.5) brightness(390%) saturate(4);
}
.icon-yellow {
-webkit-filter: hue-rotate(70deg) saturate(100);
filter: hue-rotate(70deg) saturate(100);
}
codeben article and demo
Now you can achieve this on the client side like this:
var green = '3CB54A';
var red = 'ED1F24';
var svg = '<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" width="320px" height="100px" viewBox="0 0 320 100" enable-background="new 0 0 320 100" xml:space="preserve"> <polygon class="mystar" fill="#'+green+'" points="134.973,14.204 143.295,31.066 161.903,33.77 148.438,46.896 151.617,65.43 134.973,56.679 118.329,65.43 121.507,46.896 108.042,33.77 126.65,31.066 "/><circle class="mycircle" fill="#'+red+'" cx="202.028" cy="58.342" r="12.26"/></svg>';
var encoded = window.btoa(svg);
document.body.style.background = "url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,"+encoded+")";
Fiddle here!
Download your svg as text.
Modify your svg text using javascript to change the paint/stroke/fill color[s].
Then embed the modified svg string inline into your css as described here.
If you are trying to use and SVG directly on CSS with url() like this;
a:before {
content: url('data:image/svg+xml; utf8, <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" x="0" y="0" viewBox="0 0 451 451"><path d="M345.441,2...
You should encode the # to %23, otherwise it won't work.
<svg fill="%23FFF" ...
You can store the SVG in a variable. Then manipulate the SVG string depending on your needs (i.e., set width, height, color, etc). Then use the result to set the background, e.g.
$circle-icon-svg: '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle cx="10" cy="10" r="10" /></svg>';
$icon-color: #f00;
$icon-color-hover: #00f;
#function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') {
$index: str-index($string, $search);
#if $index {
#return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
}
#return $string;
}
#function svg-fill ($svg, $color) {
#return str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg fill="#{$color}"');
}
#function svg-size ($svg, $width, $height) {
$svg: str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg width="#{$width}"');
$svg: str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg height="#{$height}"');
#return $svg;
}
.icon {
$icon-svg: svg-size($circle-icon-svg, 20, 20);
width: 20px; height: 20px; background: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{svg-fill($icon-svg, $icon-color)}');
&:hover {
background: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{svg-fill($icon-svg, $icon-color-hover)}');
}
}
I have made a demo too, http://sassmeister.com/gist/4cf0265c5d0143a9e734.
This code makes a few assumptions about the SVG, e.g. that <svg /> element does not have an existing fill colour and that neither width or height properties are set. Since the input is hardcoded in the SCSS document, it is quite easy to enforce these constraints.
Do not worry about the code duplication. gzip compression makes the difference negligible.
You can use the brightness filter, any value greater than 1 makes the element brighter, and any value less than 1 makes it darker. So, we can make those light SVG’s dark, and vice versa, for example, this will make the svg darker:
filter: brightness(0);
In order to change the color and not only brightness level we can use sepia filter along with hue-rotate, brightness, for example:
.colorize-blue {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(140deg) saturate(6);
}
You can create your own SCSS function for this. Adding the following to your config.rb file.
require 'sass'
require 'cgi'
module Sass::Script::Functions
def inline_svg_image(path, fill)
real_path = File.join(Compass.configuration.images_path, path.value)
svg = data(real_path)
svg.gsub! '{color}', fill.value
encoded_svg = CGI::escape(svg).gsub('+', '%20')
data_url = "url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8," + encoded_svg + "')"
Sass::Script::String.new(data_url)
end
private
def data(real_path)
if File.readable?(real_path)
File.open(real_path, "rb") {|io| io.read}
else
raise Compass::Error, "File not found or cannot be read: #{real_path}"
end
end
end
Then you can use it in your CSS:
.icon {
background-image: inline-svg-image('icons/icon.svg', '#555');
}
You will need to edit your SVG files and replace any fill attributes in the markup with fill="{color}"
The icon path is always relative to your images_dir parameter in the same config.rb file.
Similar to some of the other solutions, but this is pretty clean and keeps your SCSS files tidy!
In some (very specific) situations this might be achieved by using a filter. For example, you can change a blue SVG image to purple by rotating the hue 45 degrees using filter: hue-rotate(45deg);. Browser support is minimal but it's still an interesting technique.
Demo
If you wanna swap in a simple way from white to black or some like that, try this:
filter: invert(100%);
for monochrome background you could use a svg with a mask, where the background color should be displayed
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" focusable="false" style="pointer-events: none; display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%;" >
<defs>
<mask id="Mask">
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="#fff" />
<polyline stroke-width="2.5" stroke="black" stroke-linecap="square" fill="none" transform="translate(10.373882, 8.762969) rotate(-315.000000) translate(-10.373882, -8.762969) " points="7.99893906 13.9878427 12.7488243 13.9878427 12.7488243 3.53809523"></polyline>
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="20" height="20" fill="white" mask="url(#Mask)" />
</svg>
and than use this css
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
background-size: contain;
background-image: url(your/path/to.svg);
background-color: var(--color);
Since this comes up on Google despite the age, I thought I might as well give a solution that I'm employing in the distant future of 2022 after looking at the options here.
This is really just the mask solution from before, but on a pseudo-element.
.icon {
height: 1.5rem;
width: 1.5rem;
}
.icon::before {
content: "";
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
mask-repeat: no-repeat;
mask-position: center;
mask-size: contain;
mask-image: url("path/to/svg/icon.svg");
-webkit-mask-repeat: no-repeat;
-webkit-mask-position: center;
-webkit-mask-size: contain;
-webkit-mask-image: url("path/to/svg/icon.svg");
}
This works in all major browsers today, although obviously you can't have an SVG with multiple colors using this. That's the cost of business if the site doesn't let you inject them inline, or if you don't fancy doing font icons, etc.
Late to the show here, BUT, I was able to add a fill color to the SVG polygon, if you're able to directly edit the SVG code, so for example the following svg renders red, instead of default black. I have not tested outside of Chrome though:
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
width="500px" height="500px" viewBox="0 0 500 500" enable-background="new 0 0 500 500" xml:space="preserve">
<polygon
fill="red"
fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" points="452.5,233.85 452.5,264.55 110.15,264.2 250.05,390.3 229.3,413.35
47.5,250.7 229.3,86.7 250.05,109.75 112.5,233.5 "/>
</svg>
The only way i found for this, and to be cross browser (aka bulletproof), is to render the SVG with PHP and pass Query String to set the color.
The SVG, here called "arrow.php"
<?php
$fill = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'fill');
$fill = strtolower($fill);
$fill = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9]/", '', $fill);
if(empty($fill)) $fill = "000000";
header('Content-type: image/svg+xml');
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>';
?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="7.4" height="12" viewBox="0 0 7.4 12">
<g>
<path d="M8.6,7.4,10,6l6,6-6,6L8.6,16.6,13.2,12Z" transform="translate(-8.6 -6)" fill="#<?php echo htmlspecialchars($fill); ?>" fill-rule="evenodd"/>
</g>
</svg>
Then you call the image like this
.cssclass{ background-image: url(arrow.php?fill=112233); }
Works only with PHP. And remember that everytime you change the color value, your browser will load a new image.
scss create function
#function url-svg($icon) {
#return url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{str-replace($icon, "#", "%23")}");
}
scss use
url-svg('<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M13.125 0H1.875C0.84082 0 0 0.84082 0 1.875V10.3125C0 11.3467 0.84082 12.1875 1.875 12.1875H4.6875V14.6484C4.6875 14.9355 5.01563 15.1025 5.24707 14.9326L8.90625 12.1875H13.125C14.1592 12.1875 15 11.3467 15 10.3125V1.875C15 0.84082 14.1592 0 13.125 0Z" fill="#8A8A8F"/></svg>')
css generated
url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M13.125 0H1.875C0.84082 0 0 0.84082 0 1.875V10.3125C0 11.3467 0.84082 12.1875 1.875 12.1875H4.6875V14.6484C4.6875 14.9355 5.01563 15.1025 5.24707 14.9326L8.90625 12.1875H13.125C14.1592 12.1875 15 11.3467 15 10.3125V1.875C15 0.84082 14.1592 0 13.125 0Z" fill="%238A8A8F"/></svg>')
The str-replace function is used from bootstrap.
Here is another solution using a gradient and a monochrome icon as background and background-blend-mode to colorize the icon.
It requires the background-color to be white, else the whole background gets colored. I only tested on Chrome.
.colored-background {
background-image: linear-gradient(45deg, green, green), url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=US-ASCII,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22292.4%22%20height%3D%22292.4%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23000000%22%20d%3D%22M287%2069.4a17.6%2017.6%200%200%200-13-5.4H18.4c-5%200-9.3%201.8-12.9%205.4A17.6%2017.6%200%200%200%200%2082.2c0%205%201.8%209.3%205.4%2012.9l128%20127.9c3.6%203.6%207.8%205.4%2012.8%205.4s9.2-1.8%2012.8-5.4L287%2095c3.5-3.5%205.4-7.8%205.4-12.8%200-5-1.9-9.2-5.5-12.8z%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E');
background-color: #fff;
background-blend-mode: lighten, normal;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center, center right .8em;
background-size: auto, 0.6em;
color: red;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
padding: 0.5em;
padding-right: 2em;
height: 1.6em;
width: auto;
border: 1px solid gray;
}
.bg {
background-color: #ddd;
padding: 1em;
}
<div class="bg">
<div class="colored-background">green icon from black svg</div>
</div>
Related to a closed question that is linked to here, but not related directly to this question.
So in case, anyone needs actually to replace src like in the linked question, there is already an answer there. Furthermore if anyone is coming from Vue, and the src path is change on compile, I've come up with a different solution.
In my case, the parent element is a link, but it could be anything really.
<a
v-for="document in documents" :key="document.uuid"
:href="document.url"
target="_blank"
class="item flex align-items-center gap-2 hover-parent"
>
<img alt="documents" class="icon" src="../assets/PDF.svg" />
<strong>{{ document.name }}</strong>
<img class="itemImage ml-auto hide-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button.svg" />
<img class="itemImage ml-auto show-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button-hover.svg" />
</a>
.hover-parent .show-on-parent-hover { display: none }
.hover-parent .hide-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover .show-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover .hide-on-parent-hover { display: none }
So the solution here is not to change src attribute, but instead to put both <img> elements in the DOM and only display the one that is needed.
If you don't have a parent element that's supposed to be hovered on, you can simply wrap both images in a div.
<div class="hover-parent" >
<img class="hide-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button.svg" />
<img class="show-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button-hover.svg" />
</div>
You might also change CSS to the following, so the .hover-parent ancestor must be a direct parent:
.hover-parent > .show-on-parent-hover { display: none }
.hover-parent > .hide-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover > .show-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover > .hide-on-parent-hover { display: none }
This is my favorite method, but your browser support must be very progressive. With the mask property you create a mask that is applied to an element. Everywhere the mask is opaque, or solid, the underlying image shows through. Where it’s transparent, the underlying image is masked out, or hidden. The syntax for a CSS mask-image is similar to background-image.look at the codepenmask
A lot of IFs, but if your pre base64 encoded SVG starts:
<svg fill="#000000
Then the base64 encoded string will start:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIjMDAwMDAw
if the pre-encoded string starts:
<svg fill="#bfa76e
then this encodes to:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIjYmZhNzZl
Both encoded strings start the same:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIj
The quirk of base64 encoding is every 3 input characters become 4 output characters. With the SVG starting like this then the 6-character hex fill color starts exactly on an encoding block 'boundary'.
Therefore you can easily do a cross-browser JS replace:
output = input.replace(/MDAwMDAw/, "YmZhNzZl");
But tnt-rox answer above is the way to go moving forward.

change background of svg that import in css [duplicate]

Placing the SVG output directly inline with the page code I am able to simply modify fill colors with CSS like so:
polygon.mystar {
fill: blue;
}​
circle.mycircle {
fill: green;
}
This works great, however I'm looking for a way to modify the "fill" attribute of an SVG when it's being served as a BACKGROUND-IMAGE.
html {
background-image: url(../img/bg.svg);
}
How can I change the colors now? Is it even possible?
For reference, here are the contents of my external SVG file:
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
width="320px" height="100px" viewBox="0 0 320 100" enable-background="new 0 0 320 100" xml:space="preserve">
<polygon class="mystar" fill="#3CB54A" points="134.973,14.204 143.295,31.066 161.903,33.77 148.438,46.896 151.617,65.43 134.973,56.679
118.329,65.43 121.507,46.896 108.042,33.77 126.65,31.066 "/>
<circle class="mycircle" fill="#ED1F24" cx="202.028" cy="58.342" r="12.26"/>
</svg>
You can use CSS masks, With the 'mask' property, you create a mask that is applied to an element.
.icon {
background-color: red;
-webkit-mask-image: url(icon.svg);
mask-image: url(icon.svg);
}
For more see this great article: https://codepen.io/noahblon/post/coloring-svgs-in-css-background-images
I needed something similar and wanted to stick with CSS. Here are LESS and SCSS mixins as well as plain CSS that can help you with this. Unfortunately, it's browser support is a bit lax. See below for details on browser support.
LESS mixin:
.element-color(#color) {
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="#{color}" ... /></g></svg>');
}
LESS usage:
.element-color(#fff);
SCSS mixin:
#mixin element-color($color) {
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="#{$color}" ... /></g></svg>');
}
SCSS usage:
#include element-color(#fff);
CSS:
// color: red
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="red" ... /></g></svg>');
Here is more info on embedding the full SVG code into your CSS file. It also mentioned browser compatibility which is a bit too small for this to be a viable option.
One way to do this is to serve your svg from some server side mechanism.
Simply create a resource server side that outputs your svg according to GET parameters, and you serve it on a certain url.
Then you just use that url in your css.
Because as a background img, it isn't part of the DOM and you can't manipulate it.
Another possibility would be to use it regularly, embed it in a page in a normal way, but position it absolutely, make it full width & height of a page and then use z-index css property to put it behind all the other DOM elements on a page.
Yet another approach is to use mask. You then change the background color of the masked element. This has the same effect as changing the fill attribute of the svg.
HTML:
<glyph class="star"/>
<glyph class="heart" />
<glyph class="heart" style="background-color: green"/>
<glyph class="heart" style="background-color: blue"/>
CSS:
glyph {
display: inline-block;
width: 24px;
height: 24px;
}
glyph.star {
-webkit-mask: url(star.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
mask: url(star.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
background-color: yellow;
}
glyph.heart {
-webkit-mask: url(heart.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
mask: url(heart.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
background-color: red;
}
You will find a full tutorial here: http://codepen.io/noahblon/blog/coloring-svgs-in-css-background-images (not my own). It proposes a variety of approaches (not limited to mask).
Use the sepia filter along with hue-rotate, brightness, and saturation to create any color we want.
.colorize-pink {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(-70deg) saturate(5);
}
https://css-tricks.com/solved-with-css-colorizing-svg-backgrounds/
It's possible with Sass!
The only thing you have to do is to url-encode your svg code. And this is possible with a helper function in Sass. I've made a codepen for this. Look at this:
http://codepen.io/philippkuehn/pen/zGEjxB
// choose a color
$icon-color: #F84830;
// functions to urlencode the svg string
#function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') {
$index: str-index($string, $search);
#if $index {
#return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
}
#return $string;
}
#function url-encode($string) {
$map: (
"%": "%25",
"<": "%3C",
">": "%3E",
" ": "%20",
"!": "%21",
"*": "%2A",
"'": "%27",
'"': "%22",
"(": "%28",
")": "%29",
";": "%3B",
":": "%3A",
"#": "%40",
"&": "%26",
"=": "%3D",
"+": "%2B",
"$": "%24",
",": "%2C",
"/": "%2F",
"?": "%3F",
"#": "%23",
"[": "%5B",
"]": "%5D"
);
$new: $string;
#each $search, $replace in $map {
$new: str-replace($new, $search, $replace);
}
#return $new;
}
#function inline-svg($string) {
#return url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{url-encode($string)}');
}
// icon styles
// note the fill="' + $icon-color + '"
.icon {
display: inline-block;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
background: inline-svg('<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
viewBox="0 0 30 30" enable-background="new 0 0 30 30" xml:space="preserve">
<path fill="' + $icon-color + '" d="M18.7,10.1c-0.6,0.7-1,1.6-0.9,2.6c0,0.7-0.6,0.8-0.9,0.3c-1.1-2.1-0.4-5.1,0.7-7.2c0.2-0.4,0-0.8-0.5-0.7
c-5.8,0.8-9,6.4-6.4,12c0.1,0.3-0.2,0.6-0.5,0.5c-0.6-0.3-1.1-0.7-1.6-1.3c-0.2-0.3-0.4-0.5-0.6-0.8c-0.2-0.4-0.7-0.3-0.8,0.3
c-0.5,2.5,0.3,5.3,2.1,7.1c4.4,4.5,13.9,1.7,13.4-5.1c-0.2-2.9-3.2-4.2-3.3-7.1C19.6,10,19.1,9.6,18.7,10.1z"/>
</svg>');
}
.icon {
width: 48px;
height: 48px;
display: inline-block;
background: url(https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/18515/heart.svg) no-repeat 50% 50%;
background-size: cover;
}
.icon-orange {
-webkit-filter: hue-rotate(40deg) saturate(0.5) brightness(390%) saturate(4);
filter: hue-rotate(40deg) saturate(0.5) brightness(390%) saturate(4);
}
.icon-yellow {
-webkit-filter: hue-rotate(70deg) saturate(100);
filter: hue-rotate(70deg) saturate(100);
}
codeben article and demo
Now you can achieve this on the client side like this:
var green = '3CB54A';
var red = 'ED1F24';
var svg = '<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" width="320px" height="100px" viewBox="0 0 320 100" enable-background="new 0 0 320 100" xml:space="preserve"> <polygon class="mystar" fill="#'+green+'" points="134.973,14.204 143.295,31.066 161.903,33.77 148.438,46.896 151.617,65.43 134.973,56.679 118.329,65.43 121.507,46.896 108.042,33.77 126.65,31.066 "/><circle class="mycircle" fill="#'+red+'" cx="202.028" cy="58.342" r="12.26"/></svg>';
var encoded = window.btoa(svg);
document.body.style.background = "url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,"+encoded+")";
Fiddle here!
Download your svg as text.
Modify your svg text using javascript to change the paint/stroke/fill color[s].
Then embed the modified svg string inline into your css as described here.
If you are trying to use and SVG directly on CSS with url() like this;
a:before {
content: url('data:image/svg+xml; utf8, <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" x="0" y="0" viewBox="0 0 451 451"><path d="M345.441,2...
You should encode the # to %23, otherwise it won't work.
<svg fill="%23FFF" ...
You can store the SVG in a variable. Then manipulate the SVG string depending on your needs (i.e., set width, height, color, etc). Then use the result to set the background, e.g.
$circle-icon-svg: '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle cx="10" cy="10" r="10" /></svg>';
$icon-color: #f00;
$icon-color-hover: #00f;
#function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') {
$index: str-index($string, $search);
#if $index {
#return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
}
#return $string;
}
#function svg-fill ($svg, $color) {
#return str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg fill="#{$color}"');
}
#function svg-size ($svg, $width, $height) {
$svg: str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg width="#{$width}"');
$svg: str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg height="#{$height}"');
#return $svg;
}
.icon {
$icon-svg: svg-size($circle-icon-svg, 20, 20);
width: 20px; height: 20px; background: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{svg-fill($icon-svg, $icon-color)}');
&:hover {
background: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{svg-fill($icon-svg, $icon-color-hover)}');
}
}
I have made a demo too, http://sassmeister.com/gist/4cf0265c5d0143a9e734.
This code makes a few assumptions about the SVG, e.g. that <svg /> element does not have an existing fill colour and that neither width or height properties are set. Since the input is hardcoded in the SCSS document, it is quite easy to enforce these constraints.
Do not worry about the code duplication. gzip compression makes the difference negligible.
You can use the brightness filter, any value greater than 1 makes the element brighter, and any value less than 1 makes it darker. So, we can make those light SVG’s dark, and vice versa, for example, this will make the svg darker:
filter: brightness(0);
In order to change the color and not only brightness level we can use sepia filter along with hue-rotate, brightness, for example:
.colorize-blue {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(140deg) saturate(6);
}
You can create your own SCSS function for this. Adding the following to your config.rb file.
require 'sass'
require 'cgi'
module Sass::Script::Functions
def inline_svg_image(path, fill)
real_path = File.join(Compass.configuration.images_path, path.value)
svg = data(real_path)
svg.gsub! '{color}', fill.value
encoded_svg = CGI::escape(svg).gsub('+', '%20')
data_url = "url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8," + encoded_svg + "')"
Sass::Script::String.new(data_url)
end
private
def data(real_path)
if File.readable?(real_path)
File.open(real_path, "rb") {|io| io.read}
else
raise Compass::Error, "File not found or cannot be read: #{real_path}"
end
end
end
Then you can use it in your CSS:
.icon {
background-image: inline-svg-image('icons/icon.svg', '#555');
}
You will need to edit your SVG files and replace any fill attributes in the markup with fill="{color}"
The icon path is always relative to your images_dir parameter in the same config.rb file.
Similar to some of the other solutions, but this is pretty clean and keeps your SCSS files tidy!
In some (very specific) situations this might be achieved by using a filter. For example, you can change a blue SVG image to purple by rotating the hue 45 degrees using filter: hue-rotate(45deg);. Browser support is minimal but it's still an interesting technique.
Demo
If you wanna swap in a simple way from white to black or some like that, try this:
filter: invert(100%);
for monochrome background you could use a svg with a mask, where the background color should be displayed
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" focusable="false" style="pointer-events: none; display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%;" >
<defs>
<mask id="Mask">
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="#fff" />
<polyline stroke-width="2.5" stroke="black" stroke-linecap="square" fill="none" transform="translate(10.373882, 8.762969) rotate(-315.000000) translate(-10.373882, -8.762969) " points="7.99893906 13.9878427 12.7488243 13.9878427 12.7488243 3.53809523"></polyline>
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="20" height="20" fill="white" mask="url(#Mask)" />
</svg>
and than use this css
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
background-size: contain;
background-image: url(your/path/to.svg);
background-color: var(--color);
Since this comes up on Google despite the age, I thought I might as well give a solution that I'm employing in the distant future of 2022 after looking at the options here.
This is really just the mask solution from before, but on a pseudo-element.
.icon {
height: 1.5rem;
width: 1.5rem;
}
.icon::before {
content: "";
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
mask-repeat: no-repeat;
mask-position: center;
mask-size: contain;
mask-image: url("path/to/svg/icon.svg");
-webkit-mask-repeat: no-repeat;
-webkit-mask-position: center;
-webkit-mask-size: contain;
-webkit-mask-image: url("path/to/svg/icon.svg");
}
This works in all major browsers today, although obviously you can't have an SVG with multiple colors using this. That's the cost of business if the site doesn't let you inject them inline, or if you don't fancy doing font icons, etc.
Late to the show here, BUT, I was able to add a fill color to the SVG polygon, if you're able to directly edit the SVG code, so for example the following svg renders red, instead of default black. I have not tested outside of Chrome though:
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
width="500px" height="500px" viewBox="0 0 500 500" enable-background="new 0 0 500 500" xml:space="preserve">
<polygon
fill="red"
fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" points="452.5,233.85 452.5,264.55 110.15,264.2 250.05,390.3 229.3,413.35
47.5,250.7 229.3,86.7 250.05,109.75 112.5,233.5 "/>
</svg>
The only way i found for this, and to be cross browser (aka bulletproof), is to render the SVG with PHP and pass Query String to set the color.
The SVG, here called "arrow.php"
<?php
$fill = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'fill');
$fill = strtolower($fill);
$fill = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9]/", '', $fill);
if(empty($fill)) $fill = "000000";
header('Content-type: image/svg+xml');
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>';
?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="7.4" height="12" viewBox="0 0 7.4 12">
<g>
<path d="M8.6,7.4,10,6l6,6-6,6L8.6,16.6,13.2,12Z" transform="translate(-8.6 -6)" fill="#<?php echo htmlspecialchars($fill); ?>" fill-rule="evenodd"/>
</g>
</svg>
Then you call the image like this
.cssclass{ background-image: url(arrow.php?fill=112233); }
Works only with PHP. And remember that everytime you change the color value, your browser will load a new image.
scss create function
#function url-svg($icon) {
#return url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{str-replace($icon, "#", "%23")}");
}
scss use
url-svg('<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M13.125 0H1.875C0.84082 0 0 0.84082 0 1.875V10.3125C0 11.3467 0.84082 12.1875 1.875 12.1875H4.6875V14.6484C4.6875 14.9355 5.01563 15.1025 5.24707 14.9326L8.90625 12.1875H13.125C14.1592 12.1875 15 11.3467 15 10.3125V1.875C15 0.84082 14.1592 0 13.125 0Z" fill="#8A8A8F"/></svg>')
css generated
url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M13.125 0H1.875C0.84082 0 0 0.84082 0 1.875V10.3125C0 11.3467 0.84082 12.1875 1.875 12.1875H4.6875V14.6484C4.6875 14.9355 5.01563 15.1025 5.24707 14.9326L8.90625 12.1875H13.125C14.1592 12.1875 15 11.3467 15 10.3125V1.875C15 0.84082 14.1592 0 13.125 0Z" fill="%238A8A8F"/></svg>')
The str-replace function is used from bootstrap.
Here is another solution using a gradient and a monochrome icon as background and background-blend-mode to colorize the icon.
It requires the background-color to be white, else the whole background gets colored. I only tested on Chrome.
.colored-background {
background-image: linear-gradient(45deg, green, green), url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=US-ASCII,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22292.4%22%20height%3D%22292.4%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23000000%22%20d%3D%22M287%2069.4a17.6%2017.6%200%200%200-13-5.4H18.4c-5%200-9.3%201.8-12.9%205.4A17.6%2017.6%200%200%200%200%2082.2c0%205%201.8%209.3%205.4%2012.9l128%20127.9c3.6%203.6%207.8%205.4%2012.8%205.4s9.2-1.8%2012.8-5.4L287%2095c3.5-3.5%205.4-7.8%205.4-12.8%200-5-1.9-9.2-5.5-12.8z%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E');
background-color: #fff;
background-blend-mode: lighten, normal;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center, center right .8em;
background-size: auto, 0.6em;
color: red;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
padding: 0.5em;
padding-right: 2em;
height: 1.6em;
width: auto;
border: 1px solid gray;
}
.bg {
background-color: #ddd;
padding: 1em;
}
<div class="bg">
<div class="colored-background">green icon from black svg</div>
</div>
Related to a closed question that is linked to here, but not related directly to this question.
So in case, anyone needs actually to replace src like in the linked question, there is already an answer there. Furthermore if anyone is coming from Vue, and the src path is change on compile, I've come up with a different solution.
In my case, the parent element is a link, but it could be anything really.
<a
v-for="document in documents" :key="document.uuid"
:href="document.url"
target="_blank"
class="item flex align-items-center gap-2 hover-parent"
>
<img alt="documents" class="icon" src="../assets/PDF.svg" />
<strong>{{ document.name }}</strong>
<img class="itemImage ml-auto hide-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button.svg" />
<img class="itemImage ml-auto show-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button-hover.svg" />
</a>
.hover-parent .show-on-parent-hover { display: none }
.hover-parent .hide-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover .show-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover .hide-on-parent-hover { display: none }
So the solution here is not to change src attribute, but instead to put both <img> elements in the DOM and only display the one that is needed.
If you don't have a parent element that's supposed to be hovered on, you can simply wrap both images in a div.
<div class="hover-parent" >
<img class="hide-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button.svg" />
<img class="show-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button-hover.svg" />
</div>
You might also change CSS to the following, so the .hover-parent ancestor must be a direct parent:
.hover-parent > .show-on-parent-hover { display: none }
.hover-parent > .hide-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover > .show-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover > .hide-on-parent-hover { display: none }
This is my favorite method, but your browser support must be very progressive. With the mask property you create a mask that is applied to an element. Everywhere the mask is opaque, or solid, the underlying image shows through. Where it’s transparent, the underlying image is masked out, or hidden. The syntax for a CSS mask-image is similar to background-image.look at the codepenmask
A lot of IFs, but if your pre base64 encoded SVG starts:
<svg fill="#000000
Then the base64 encoded string will start:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIjMDAwMDAw
if the pre-encoded string starts:
<svg fill="#bfa76e
then this encodes to:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIjYmZhNzZl
Both encoded strings start the same:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIj
The quirk of base64 encoding is every 3 input characters become 4 output characters. With the SVG starting like this then the 6-character hex fill color starts exactly on an encoding block 'boundary'.
Therefore you can easily do a cross-browser JS replace:
output = input.replace(/MDAwMDAw/, "YmZhNzZl");
But tnt-rox answer above is the way to go moving forward.

How to modify the fill color of an SVG image when being served as background image?

Placing the SVG output directly inline with the page code I am able to simply modify fill colors with CSS like so:
polygon.mystar {
fill: blue;
}​
circle.mycircle {
fill: green;
}
This works great, however I'm looking for a way to modify the "fill" attribute of an SVG when it's being served as a BACKGROUND-IMAGE.
html {
background-image: url(../img/bg.svg);
}
How can I change the colors now? Is it even possible?
For reference, here are the contents of my external SVG file:
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
width="320px" height="100px" viewBox="0 0 320 100" enable-background="new 0 0 320 100" xml:space="preserve">
<polygon class="mystar" fill="#3CB54A" points="134.973,14.204 143.295,31.066 161.903,33.77 148.438,46.896 151.617,65.43 134.973,56.679
118.329,65.43 121.507,46.896 108.042,33.77 126.65,31.066 "/>
<circle class="mycircle" fill="#ED1F24" cx="202.028" cy="58.342" r="12.26"/>
</svg>
You can use CSS masks, With the 'mask' property, you create a mask that is applied to an element.
.icon {
background-color: red;
-webkit-mask-image: url(icon.svg);
mask-image: url(icon.svg);
}
For more see this great article: https://codepen.io/noahblon/post/coloring-svgs-in-css-background-images
I needed something similar and wanted to stick with CSS. Here are LESS and SCSS mixins as well as plain CSS that can help you with this. Unfortunately, it's browser support is a bit lax. See below for details on browser support.
LESS mixin:
.element-color(#color) {
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="#{color}" ... /></g></svg>');
}
LESS usage:
.element-color(#fff);
SCSS mixin:
#mixin element-color($color) {
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="#{$color}" ... /></g></svg>');
}
SCSS usage:
#include element-color(#fff);
CSS:
// color: red
background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg ...><g stroke="red" ... /></g></svg>');
Here is more info on embedding the full SVG code into your CSS file. It also mentioned browser compatibility which is a bit too small for this to be a viable option.
One way to do this is to serve your svg from some server side mechanism.
Simply create a resource server side that outputs your svg according to GET parameters, and you serve it on a certain url.
Then you just use that url in your css.
Because as a background img, it isn't part of the DOM and you can't manipulate it.
Another possibility would be to use it regularly, embed it in a page in a normal way, but position it absolutely, make it full width & height of a page and then use z-index css property to put it behind all the other DOM elements on a page.
Yet another approach is to use mask. You then change the background color of the masked element. This has the same effect as changing the fill attribute of the svg.
HTML:
<glyph class="star"/>
<glyph class="heart" />
<glyph class="heart" style="background-color: green"/>
<glyph class="heart" style="background-color: blue"/>
CSS:
glyph {
display: inline-block;
width: 24px;
height: 24px;
}
glyph.star {
-webkit-mask: url(star.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
mask: url(star.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
background-color: yellow;
}
glyph.heart {
-webkit-mask: url(heart.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
mask: url(heart.svg) no-repeat 100% 100%;
-webkit-mask-size: cover;
mask-size: cover;
background-color: red;
}
You will find a full tutorial here: http://codepen.io/noahblon/blog/coloring-svgs-in-css-background-images (not my own). It proposes a variety of approaches (not limited to mask).
Use the sepia filter along with hue-rotate, brightness, and saturation to create any color we want.
.colorize-pink {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(-70deg) saturate(5);
}
https://css-tricks.com/solved-with-css-colorizing-svg-backgrounds/
It's possible with Sass!
The only thing you have to do is to url-encode your svg code. And this is possible with a helper function in Sass. I've made a codepen for this. Look at this:
http://codepen.io/philippkuehn/pen/zGEjxB
// choose a color
$icon-color: #F84830;
// functions to urlencode the svg string
#function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') {
$index: str-index($string, $search);
#if $index {
#return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
}
#return $string;
}
#function url-encode($string) {
$map: (
"%": "%25",
"<": "%3C",
">": "%3E",
" ": "%20",
"!": "%21",
"*": "%2A",
"'": "%27",
'"': "%22",
"(": "%28",
")": "%29",
";": "%3B",
":": "%3A",
"#": "%40",
"&": "%26",
"=": "%3D",
"+": "%2B",
"$": "%24",
",": "%2C",
"/": "%2F",
"?": "%3F",
"#": "%23",
"[": "%5B",
"]": "%5D"
);
$new: $string;
#each $search, $replace in $map {
$new: str-replace($new, $search, $replace);
}
#return $new;
}
#function inline-svg($string) {
#return url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{url-encode($string)}');
}
// icon styles
// note the fill="' + $icon-color + '"
.icon {
display: inline-block;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
background: inline-svg('<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
viewBox="0 0 30 30" enable-background="new 0 0 30 30" xml:space="preserve">
<path fill="' + $icon-color + '" d="M18.7,10.1c-0.6,0.7-1,1.6-0.9,2.6c0,0.7-0.6,0.8-0.9,0.3c-1.1-2.1-0.4-5.1,0.7-7.2c0.2-0.4,0-0.8-0.5-0.7
c-5.8,0.8-9,6.4-6.4,12c0.1,0.3-0.2,0.6-0.5,0.5c-0.6-0.3-1.1-0.7-1.6-1.3c-0.2-0.3-0.4-0.5-0.6-0.8c-0.2-0.4-0.7-0.3-0.8,0.3
c-0.5,2.5,0.3,5.3,2.1,7.1c4.4,4.5,13.9,1.7,13.4-5.1c-0.2-2.9-3.2-4.2-3.3-7.1C19.6,10,19.1,9.6,18.7,10.1z"/>
</svg>');
}
.icon {
width: 48px;
height: 48px;
display: inline-block;
background: url(https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/18515/heart.svg) no-repeat 50% 50%;
background-size: cover;
}
.icon-orange {
-webkit-filter: hue-rotate(40deg) saturate(0.5) brightness(390%) saturate(4);
filter: hue-rotate(40deg) saturate(0.5) brightness(390%) saturate(4);
}
.icon-yellow {
-webkit-filter: hue-rotate(70deg) saturate(100);
filter: hue-rotate(70deg) saturate(100);
}
codeben article and demo
Now you can achieve this on the client side like this:
var green = '3CB54A';
var red = 'ED1F24';
var svg = '<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" width="320px" height="100px" viewBox="0 0 320 100" enable-background="new 0 0 320 100" xml:space="preserve"> <polygon class="mystar" fill="#'+green+'" points="134.973,14.204 143.295,31.066 161.903,33.77 148.438,46.896 151.617,65.43 134.973,56.679 118.329,65.43 121.507,46.896 108.042,33.77 126.65,31.066 "/><circle class="mycircle" fill="#'+red+'" cx="202.028" cy="58.342" r="12.26"/></svg>';
var encoded = window.btoa(svg);
document.body.style.background = "url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,"+encoded+")";
Fiddle here!
Download your svg as text.
Modify your svg text using javascript to change the paint/stroke/fill color[s].
Then embed the modified svg string inline into your css as described here.
If you are trying to use and SVG directly on CSS with url() like this;
a:before {
content: url('data:image/svg+xml; utf8, <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" x="0" y="0" viewBox="0 0 451 451"><path d="M345.441,2...
You should encode the # to %23, otherwise it won't work.
<svg fill="%23FFF" ...
You can store the SVG in a variable. Then manipulate the SVG string depending on your needs (i.e., set width, height, color, etc). Then use the result to set the background, e.g.
$circle-icon-svg: '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle cx="10" cy="10" r="10" /></svg>';
$icon-color: #f00;
$icon-color-hover: #00f;
#function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') {
$index: str-index($string, $search);
#if $index {
#return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
}
#return $string;
}
#function svg-fill ($svg, $color) {
#return str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg fill="#{$color}"');
}
#function svg-size ($svg, $width, $height) {
$svg: str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg width="#{$width}"');
$svg: str-replace($svg, '<svg', '<svg height="#{$height}"');
#return $svg;
}
.icon {
$icon-svg: svg-size($circle-icon-svg, 20, 20);
width: 20px; height: 20px; background: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{svg-fill($icon-svg, $icon-color)}');
&:hover {
background: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{svg-fill($icon-svg, $icon-color-hover)}');
}
}
I have made a demo too, http://sassmeister.com/gist/4cf0265c5d0143a9e734.
This code makes a few assumptions about the SVG, e.g. that <svg /> element does not have an existing fill colour and that neither width or height properties are set. Since the input is hardcoded in the SCSS document, it is quite easy to enforce these constraints.
Do not worry about the code duplication. gzip compression makes the difference negligible.
You can use the brightness filter, any value greater than 1 makes the element brighter, and any value less than 1 makes it darker. So, we can make those light SVG’s dark, and vice versa, for example, this will make the svg darker:
filter: brightness(0);
In order to change the color and not only brightness level we can use sepia filter along with hue-rotate, brightness, for example:
.colorize-blue {
filter: brightness(0.5) sepia(1) hue-rotate(140deg) saturate(6);
}
You can create your own SCSS function for this. Adding the following to your config.rb file.
require 'sass'
require 'cgi'
module Sass::Script::Functions
def inline_svg_image(path, fill)
real_path = File.join(Compass.configuration.images_path, path.value)
svg = data(real_path)
svg.gsub! '{color}', fill.value
encoded_svg = CGI::escape(svg).gsub('+', '%20')
data_url = "url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8," + encoded_svg + "')"
Sass::Script::String.new(data_url)
end
private
def data(real_path)
if File.readable?(real_path)
File.open(real_path, "rb") {|io| io.read}
else
raise Compass::Error, "File not found or cannot be read: #{real_path}"
end
end
end
Then you can use it in your CSS:
.icon {
background-image: inline-svg-image('icons/icon.svg', '#555');
}
You will need to edit your SVG files and replace any fill attributes in the markup with fill="{color}"
The icon path is always relative to your images_dir parameter in the same config.rb file.
Similar to some of the other solutions, but this is pretty clean and keeps your SCSS files tidy!
If you wanna swap in a simple way from white to black or some like that, try this:
filter: invert(100%);
In some (very specific) situations this might be achieved by using a filter. For example, you can change a blue SVG image to purple by rotating the hue 45 degrees using filter: hue-rotate(45deg);. Browser support is minimal but it's still an interesting technique.
Demo
for monochrome background you could use a svg with a mask, where the background color should be displayed
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" focusable="false" style="pointer-events: none; display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%;" >
<defs>
<mask id="Mask">
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="#fff" />
<polyline stroke-width="2.5" stroke="black" stroke-linecap="square" fill="none" transform="translate(10.373882, 8.762969) rotate(-315.000000) translate(-10.373882, -8.762969) " points="7.99893906 13.9878427 12.7488243 13.9878427 12.7488243 3.53809523"></polyline>
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="20" height="20" fill="white" mask="url(#Mask)" />
</svg>
and than use this css
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
background-size: contain;
background-image: url(your/path/to.svg);
background-color: var(--color);
Since this comes up on Google despite the age, I thought I might as well give a solution that I'm employing in the distant future of 2022 after looking at the options here.
This is really just the mask solution from before, but on a pseudo-element.
.icon {
height: 1.5rem;
width: 1.5rem;
}
.icon::before {
content: "";
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
mask-repeat: no-repeat;
mask-position: center;
mask-size: contain;
mask-image: url("path/to/svg/icon.svg");
-webkit-mask-repeat: no-repeat;
-webkit-mask-position: center;
-webkit-mask-size: contain;
-webkit-mask-image: url("path/to/svg/icon.svg");
}
This works in all major browsers today, although obviously you can't have an SVG with multiple colors using this. That's the cost of business if the site doesn't let you inject them inline, or if you don't fancy doing font icons, etc.
Late to the show here, BUT, I was able to add a fill color to the SVG polygon, if you're able to directly edit the SVG code, so for example the following svg renders red, instead of default black. I have not tested outside of Chrome though:
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
width="500px" height="500px" viewBox="0 0 500 500" enable-background="new 0 0 500 500" xml:space="preserve">
<polygon
fill="red"
fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" points="452.5,233.85 452.5,264.55 110.15,264.2 250.05,390.3 229.3,413.35
47.5,250.7 229.3,86.7 250.05,109.75 112.5,233.5 "/>
</svg>
The only way i found for this, and to be cross browser (aka bulletproof), is to render the SVG with PHP and pass Query String to set the color.
The SVG, here called "arrow.php"
<?php
$fill = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'fill');
$fill = strtolower($fill);
$fill = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9]/", '', $fill);
if(empty($fill)) $fill = "000000";
header('Content-type: image/svg+xml');
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>';
?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="7.4" height="12" viewBox="0 0 7.4 12">
<g>
<path d="M8.6,7.4,10,6l6,6-6,6L8.6,16.6,13.2,12Z" transform="translate(-8.6 -6)" fill="#<?php echo htmlspecialchars($fill); ?>" fill-rule="evenodd"/>
</g>
</svg>
Then you call the image like this
.cssclass{ background-image: url(arrow.php?fill=112233); }
Works only with PHP. And remember that everytime you change the color value, your browser will load a new image.
scss create function
#function url-svg($icon) {
#return url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{str-replace($icon, "#", "%23")}");
}
scss use
url-svg('<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M13.125 0H1.875C0.84082 0 0 0.84082 0 1.875V10.3125C0 11.3467 0.84082 12.1875 1.875 12.1875H4.6875V14.6484C4.6875 14.9355 5.01563 15.1025 5.24707 14.9326L8.90625 12.1875H13.125C14.1592 12.1875 15 11.3467 15 10.3125V1.875C15 0.84082 14.1592 0 13.125 0Z" fill="#8A8A8F"/></svg>')
css generated
url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M13.125 0H1.875C0.84082 0 0 0.84082 0 1.875V10.3125C0 11.3467 0.84082 12.1875 1.875 12.1875H4.6875V14.6484C4.6875 14.9355 5.01563 15.1025 5.24707 14.9326L8.90625 12.1875H13.125C14.1592 12.1875 15 11.3467 15 10.3125V1.875C15 0.84082 14.1592 0 13.125 0Z" fill="%238A8A8F"/></svg>')
The str-replace function is used from bootstrap.
Here is another solution using a gradient and a monochrome icon as background and background-blend-mode to colorize the icon.
It requires the background-color to be white, else the whole background gets colored. I only tested on Chrome.
.colored-background {
background-image: linear-gradient(45deg, green, green), url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=US-ASCII,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22292.4%22%20height%3D%22292.4%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23000000%22%20d%3D%22M287%2069.4a17.6%2017.6%200%200%200-13-5.4H18.4c-5%200-9.3%201.8-12.9%205.4A17.6%2017.6%200%200%200%200%2082.2c0%205%201.8%209.3%205.4%2012.9l128%20127.9c3.6%203.6%207.8%205.4%2012.8%205.4s9.2-1.8%2012.8-5.4L287%2095c3.5-3.5%205.4-7.8%205.4-12.8%200-5-1.9-9.2-5.5-12.8z%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E');
background-color: #fff;
background-blend-mode: lighten, normal;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center, center right .8em;
background-size: auto, 0.6em;
color: red;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
padding: 0.5em;
padding-right: 2em;
height: 1.6em;
width: auto;
border: 1px solid gray;
}
.bg {
background-color: #ddd;
padding: 1em;
}
<div class="bg">
<div class="colored-background">green icon from black svg</div>
</div>
Related to a closed question that is linked to here, but not related directly to this question.
So in case, anyone needs actually to replace src like in the linked question, there is already an answer there. Furthermore if anyone is coming from Vue, and the src path is change on compile, I've come up with a different solution.
In my case, the parent element is a link, but it could be anything really.
<a
v-for="document in documents" :key="document.uuid"
:href="document.url"
target="_blank"
class="item flex align-items-center gap-2 hover-parent"
>
<img alt="documents" class="icon" src="../assets/PDF.svg" />
<strong>{{ document.name }}</strong>
<img class="itemImage ml-auto hide-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button.svg" />
<img class="itemImage ml-auto show-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button-hover.svg" />
</a>
.hover-parent .show-on-parent-hover { display: none }
.hover-parent .hide-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover .show-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover .hide-on-parent-hover { display: none }
So the solution here is not to change src attribute, but instead to put both <img> elements in the DOM and only display the one that is needed.
If you don't have a parent element that's supposed to be hovered on, you can simply wrap both images in a div.
<div class="hover-parent" >
<img class="hide-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button.svg" />
<img class="show-on-parent-hover" src="../assets/download-circular-button-hover.svg" />
</div>
You might also change CSS to the following, so the .hover-parent ancestor must be a direct parent:
.hover-parent > .show-on-parent-hover { display: none }
.hover-parent > .hide-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover > .show-on-parent-hover { display: block }
.hover-parent:hover > .hide-on-parent-hover { display: none }
This is my favorite method, but your browser support must be very progressive. With the mask property you create a mask that is applied to an element. Everywhere the mask is opaque, or solid, the underlying image shows through. Where it’s transparent, the underlying image is masked out, or hidden. The syntax for a CSS mask-image is similar to background-image.look at the codepenmask
A lot of IFs, but if your pre base64 encoded SVG starts:
<svg fill="#000000
Then the base64 encoded string will start:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIjMDAwMDAw
if the pre-encoded string starts:
<svg fill="#bfa76e
then this encodes to:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIjYmZhNzZl
Both encoded strings start the same:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIj
The quirk of base64 encoding is every 3 input characters become 4 output characters. With the SVG starting like this then the 6-character hex fill color starts exactly on an encoding block 'boundary'.
Therefore you can easily do a cross-browser JS replace:
output = input.replace(/MDAwMDAw/, "YmZhNzZl");
But tnt-rox answer above is the way to go moving forward.