Unable to override fill property on SVG icon using React - html

I have a bunch of icons I have exported from Figma and I would like to create a wrapper Component around those icons, using the benefit of <use> tag.
So I created a SVG file with all the symbols in order to target them by their id.
The problem is, I am not able to override the fill property on the reused icons. After a lot of reading, I know that I'm supposed to use CSS inheritance since the reused element is in the shadow DOM and its properties cannot be accessed as usual.
Just for debugging purposes, I copy pasted the source code of one of those icons directly in the component (and not using the import mechanism), and surprisingly, it works.
Here is the code :
icon.svg
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<symbol id="ic">
<path fill="#000" d="M81,40.933c0-4.25-3-7.811-6.996-8.673c-0.922-5.312-3.588-10.178-7.623-13.844 c-2.459-2.239-5.326-3.913-8.408-4.981c-0.797-3.676-4.066-6.437-7.979-6.437c-3.908,0-7.184,2.764-7.979,6.442 c-3.078,1.065-5.939,2.741-8.396,4.977c-4.035,3.666-6.701,8.531-7.623,13.844C22.002,33.123,19,36.682,19,40.933 c0,2.617,1.145,4.965,2.957,6.589c0.047,0.195,0.119,0.389,0.225,0.568l26.004,43.873c0.383,0.646,1.072,1.04,1.824,1.04 c0.748,0,1.439-0.395,1.824-1.04L77.82,48.089c0.105-0.179,0.178-0.373,0.225-0.568C79.855,45.897,81,43.549,81,40.933z M49.994,11.235c2.164,0,3.928,1.762,3.928,3.93c0,2.165-1.764,3.929-3.928,3.929s-3.928-1.764-3.928-3.929 C46.066,12.997,47.83,11.235,49.994,11.235z M27.842,36.301c0.014,0,0.027,0,0.031,0c1.086,0,1.998-0.817,2.115-1.907 c0.762-7.592,5.641-13.791,12.303-16.535c1.119,3.184,4.146,5.475,7.703,5.475c3.561,0,6.588-2.293,7.707-5.48 c6.664,2.742,11.547,8.944,12.312,16.54c0.115,1.092,1.037,1.929,2.143,1.907c2.541,0.013,4.604,2.087,4.604,4.631 c0,1.684-0.914,3.148-2.266,3.958H25.508c-1.354-0.809-2.268-2.273-2.268-3.958C23.24,38.389,25.303,36.316,27.842,36.301z M50.01,86.723L27.73,49.13h44.541L50.01,86.723z"/>
</symbol>
</svg>
LocalIcon.css
.icon {
width: 100px;
height: 125px;
}
use.ic-1 {
fill: skyblue;
}
use.ic-2 {
fill: #FDC646;
}
svg path {
fill: inherit;
}
LocalIcon.js
import React, { FC } from 'react';
import Icons from '../../icons/ic.svg';
import './LocalIcon.css';
const LocalIcon = ({ name, color, size }) => (
// <svg fill={color} width={size} height={size}>
// <use className="icon" xlinkHref={`${Icons}#Icon/Heart/Filled`}/>
// </svg>
<>
<svg>
<symbol id="ic">
<path fill="#000" d="M81,40..."/>
</symbol>
</svg>
<svg className='icon' viewBox='0 0 100 125'>
<use className='ic-1' href={`${Icons}#ic`} x='0' y='0' /> // This one is still black
</svg>
<svg className='icon' viewBox='0 0 100 125'>
<use className='ic-2' href='#ic' x='0' y='0' /> // This one works
</svg>
</>
);
Does someone have an idea about what am I doing wrong ? Is that somehow related to the way I import the file ? Thanks a lot for your help.

In order for your CSS rule to apply,
you need to change any fill rule in your SVG code to fill:'inherit'. Otherwise, the SVG style will override your CSS style.

Related

SVG icons not sizing to bounding box from export

I am using Google Material icons for a project and exporting the icons using Figma.
In the Angular application I am using a sprite sheet to reference each icon like so:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" style="display: none;">
<symbol viewBox="0 0 24 24" id="icon-someIcon">
<title>Some Icon</title>
<path fill="currentColor" d="paths..."/>
</symbol>
<symbol viewBox="0 0 24 24" id="icon-anotherIcon">
<title>Another Icon</title>
<path fill="currentColor" d="paths...." />
</symbol>
</svg>
CSS definition.
svg.icon{
display: inline-block;
width: 47px;
height: 47px;
fill: #000;
}
svg-icon.component.html
<svg attr.fill="{{ fill }}" attr.class="{{ iconClass }}">
<use attr.href="assets/{{ sheetType }}-sprite-sheet.svg#{{ icon }}"></use>
</svg>
svg-icon-component.ts
export class SvgIconComponent {
#Input() icon!: string;
#Input() fill?: string;
#Input() iconClass?: string;
#Input() sheetType: 'primary' | 'secondary' = 'primary';
}
In the child component
<app-svg-icon
[icon]="iconName"
[iconClass]="'icon'"
></app-svg-icon>
What I am currently receiving is a misaligned icon inside the bounding box making alignment of the icons very difficult/impossible. The SVG icon does not fill the bounding box but rather has a static size that it was imported at, and the viewbox gets changed to allow the icon to be fully visible and not clipped rather than expand with the size of the icon.
Even exporting the vector from Figma, without any kind of viewbox/bounding box, I still run into the vector dimensions being static and initially fixed rather than being defined by the SVG styling.

rect's stroke doesn't follow the rect's radius [duplicate]

Currently building a browser-based SVG application. Within this app, various shapes can be styled and positioned by the user, including rectangles.
When I apply a stroke-width to an SVG rect element of say 1px, the stroke is applied to the rect’s offset and inset in different ways by different browsers. This is proving to be troublesome, especially when I try to calculate the outer width and visual position of a rectangle and position it next to other elements.
For example:
Firefox adds 1px inset (bottom and left), and 1px offset (top and right)
Chrome adds 1px inset (top and left), and 1px offset (bottom and right)
My only solution so far would be to draw the actual borders myself (probably with the path tool) and position the borders behind the stroked element. But this solution is an unpleasant workaround, and I’d prefer not to go down this road if possible.
So my question is, can you control how an SVG’s stroke-width is drawn on elements?
No, you cannot specify whether the stroke is drawn inside or outside an element. I made a proposal to the SVG working group for this functionality in 2003, but it received no support (or discussion).
As I noted in the proposal,
you can achieve the same visual result as "inside" by doubling your stroke width and then using a clipping path to clip the object to itself, and
you can achieve the same visual result as 'outside' by doubling the stroke width and then overlaying a no-stroke copy of the object on top of itself.
Edit: This answer may be wrong in the future. It should be possible to achieve these results using SVG Vector Effects, by combining veStrokePath with veIntersect (for 'inside') or with veExclude (for 'outside). However, Vector Effects are still a working draft module with no implementations that I can yet find.
Edit 2: The SVG 2 draft specification includes a stroke-alignment property (with center|inside|outside possible values). This property may make it into UAs eventually.
Edit 3: Amusingly and dissapointingly, the SVG working group has removed stroke-alignment from SVG 2. You can see some of the concerns described after the prose here.
UPDATE: The stroke-alignment attribute was on April 1st, 2015 moved to a completely new spec called SVG Strokes.
As of the SVG 2.0 Editor’s Draft of February 26th, 2015 (and possibly since February 13th), the stroke-alignment property is present with the values inner, center (default) and outer.
It seems to work the same way as the stroke-location property proposed by #Phrogz and the later stroke-position suggestion. This property has been planned since at least 2011, but apart from an annotation that said
SVG 2 shall include a way to specify stroke position
, it has never been detailed in the spec as it was deferred - until now, it seems.
No browser support this property, or, as far as I know, any of the new SVG 2 features, yet, but hopefully they will soon as the spec matures. This has been a property I personally have been urging to have, and I'm really happy that it's finally there in the spec.
There seems to be some issues as to how to the property should behave on open paths as well as loops. These issues will, most probably, prolong implementations across browsers. However, I will update this answer with new information as browsers begin to support this property.
I found an easy way, which has a few restrictions, but worked for me:
define the shape in defs
define a clip path referencing the shape
use it and double the stroke with as the outside is clipped
Here a working example:
<svg width="240" height="240" viewBox="0 0 1024 1024">
<defs>
<path id="ld" d="M256,0 L0,512 L384,512 L128,1024 L1024,384 L640,384 L896,0 L256,0 Z"/>
<clipPath id="clip">
<use xlink:href="#ld"/>
</clipPath>
</defs>
<g>
<use xlink:href="#ld" stroke="#0081C6" stroke-width="160" fill="#00D2B8" clip-path="url(#clip)"/>
</g>
</svg>
You can use CSS to style the order of stroke and fills. That is, stroke first and then fill second, and get the desired effect.
MDN on paint-order: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/paint-order
CSS code:
paint-order: stroke;
Here's a function that will calculate how many pixels you need to add - using the given stroke - to the top, right, bottom and left, all based on the browser:
var getStrokeOffsets = function(stroke){
var strokeFloor = Math.floor(stroke / 2), // max offset
strokeCeil = Math.ceil(stroke / 2); // min offset
if($.browser.mozilla){ // Mozilla offsets
return {
bottom: strokeFloor,
left: strokeFloor,
top: strokeCeil,
right: strokeCeil
};
}else if($.browser.webkit){ // WebKit offsets
return {
bottom: strokeCeil,
left: strokeFloor,
top: strokeFloor,
right: strokeCeil
};
}else{ // default offsets
return {
bottom: strokeCeil,
left: strokeCeil,
top: strokeCeil,
right: strokeCeil
};
}
};
As people above have noted you'll either have to recalculate an offset to the stroke's path coordinates or double its width and then mask one side or the other, because not only does SVG not natively support Illustrator's stroke alignment, but PostScript doesn't either.
The specification for strokes in Adobe's PostScript Manual 2nd edition states:
"4.5.1 Stroking:
The stroke operator draws a line of some thickness along the current path. For each straight or curved segment in the path, stroke draws a line that is centered on the segment with sides parallel to the segment." (emphasis theirs)
The rest of the specification has no attributes for offsetting the line's position. When Illustrator lets you align inside or outside, it's recalculating the actual path's offset (because it's still computationally cheaper than overprinting then masking). The path coordinates in the .ai document are reference, not what gets rastered or exported to a final format.
Because Inkscape's native format is spec SVG, it can't offer a feature the spec lacks.
Here is a work around for inner bordered rect using symbol and use.
Example: https://jsbin.com/yopemiwame/edit?html,output
SVG:
<svg>
<symbol id="inner-border-rect">
<rect class="inner-border" width="100%" height="100%" style="fill:rgb(0,255,255);stroke-width:10;stroke:rgb(0,0,0)">
</symbol>
...
<use xlink:href="#inner-border-rect" x="?" y="?" width="?" height="?">
</svg>
Note: Make sure to replace the ? in use with real values.
Background: The reason why this works is because symbol establishes a new viewport by replacing symbol with svg and creating an element in the shadow DOM. This svg of the shadow DOM is then linked into your current SVG element. Note that svgs can be nested and every svg creates a new viewport, which clips everything that overlaps, including the overlapping border. For a much more detailed overview of whats going on read this fantastic article by Sara Soueidan.
I don’t know how helpful will that be but in my case I just created another circle with border only and placed it “inside” the other shape.
This worked for me:
.btn {
border: 1px solid black;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px black;
}
A (dirty) possible solution is by using patterns,
here is an example with an inside stroked triangle :
https://jsfiddle.net/qr3p7php/5/
<style>
#triangle1{
fill: #0F0;
fill-opacity: 0.3;
stroke: #000;
stroke-opacity: 0.5;
stroke-width: 20;
}
#triangle2{
stroke: #f00;
stroke-opacity: 1;
stroke-width: 1;
}
</style>
<svg height="210" width="400" >
<pattern id="fagl" patternUnits="objectBoundingBox" width="2" height="1" x="-50%">
<path id="triangle1" d="M150 0 L75 200 L225 200 Z">
</pattern>
<path id="triangle2" d="M150 0 L75 200 L225 200 Z" fill="url(#fagl)"/>
</svg>
The solution from Xavier Ho of doubling the width of the stroke and changing the paint-order is brilliant, although only works if the fill is a solid color, with no transparency.
I have developed other approach, more complicated but works for any fill. It also works in ellipses or paths (with the later there are some corner cases with strange behaviour, for example open paths that crosses theirselves, but not much).
The trick is to display the shape in two layers. One without stroke (only fill), and another one only with stroke at double width (transparent fill) and passed through a mask that shows the whole shape, but hides the original shape without stroke.
<svg width="240" height="240" viewBox="0 0 1024 1024">
<defs>
<path id="ld" d="M256,0 L0,512 L384,512 L128,1024 L1024,384 L640,384 L896,0 L256,0 Z"/>
<mask id="mask">
<use xlink:href="#ld" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="160" fill="#FFFFFF"/>
<use xlink:href="#ld" fill="#000000"/>
</mask>
</defs>
<g>
<use xlink:href="#ld" fill="#00D2B8"/>
<use xlink:href="#ld" stroke="#0081C6" stroke-width="160" fill="red" mask="url(#mask)"/>
</g>
</svg>
The easiest way I found is to add clip-path into circle
Add clip-path="circle()"
<circle id="circle" clip-path="circle()" cx="100" cy="100" r="100" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="5" />
Then the stroke-width="5" will magically become inner 5px stroke with absolute 100px radius.
Update 2023: The current draft renamed the attribute to stroke-align
Browser Support 2023:
See caniuse
This CSS property is not supported in any modern browser, nor are
there any known plans to support it.
Polyfill-like helper function
Based on the previous approaches to combine paint-order, mask and clip-path.
(As suggested by #Xavier Ho
#Jorg Janke)
//emulateStrokeAlign();
function emulateStrokeAlign() {
let supportsSvgStrokeAlign = CSS.supports("stroke-align", "outer") ?
true :
CSS.supports("stroke-alignment", "outer") ?
true :
false;
console.log("supportsSvgStrokeAlign", supportsSvgStrokeAlign);
if (!supportsSvgStrokeAlign) {
let ns = "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
let strokeAlignmentEls = document.querySelectorAll(
"*[stroke-alignment], *[stroke-align]"
);
strokeAlignmentEls.forEach((el, s) => {
let svg = el.closest("svg");
// set auto ids to prevent non-unique mask ids
let svgID = svg.id ? svg.id : "svg_" + s;
svg.id = svgID;
//create <defs> if not previously appended
let defs = svg.querySelector("defs");
if (!defs) {
defs = document.createElementNS(ns, "defs");
svg.insertBefore(defs, svg.children[0]);
}
let style = window.getComputedStyle(el);
let strokeWidth = parseFloat(style.strokeWidth);
let strokeAlignment = el.getAttribute("stroke-alignment") ?
el.getAttribute("stroke-alignment") :
el.getAttribute("stroke-align");
el.removeAttribute("stroke-align");
el.removeAttribute("stroke-alignment");
el.setAttribute("data-stroke-align", strokeAlignment);
let maskClipId = `mask-${svgID}-${s}`;
if (strokeAlignment === "outer") {
// create mask
let mask = document.createElementNS(ns, "mask");
mask.id = maskClipId;
let maskEl = el.cloneNode();
mask.appendChild(maskEl);
defs.appendChild(mask);
maskEl.setAttribute("fill", "#000");
mask.setAttribute("maskUnits", "userSpaceOnUse");
maskEl.setAttribute("stroke", "#fff");
maskEl.removeAttribute("stroke-opacity");
maskEl.removeAttribute("id");
maskEl.setAttribute("paint-order", "stroke");
maskEl.style.strokeWidth = strokeWidth * 2;
// clone stroke
let cloneStroke = el.cloneNode();
cloneStroke.style.fill = "none";
cloneStroke.style.strokeWidth = strokeWidth * 2;
cloneStroke.removeAttribute("id");
cloneStroke.removeAttribute("stroke-alignment");
cloneStroke.classList.add("cloneStrokeOuter");
cloneStroke.setAttribute("mask", `url(#${maskClipId})`);
el.parentNode.insertBefore(cloneStroke, el.nextElementSibling);
//remove stroke from original element
el.style.stroke = "none";
}
if (strokeAlignment === "inner") {
//create clipPath
let clipPathEl = el.cloneNode();
let clipPath = document.createElementNS(ns, "clipPath");
clipPath.id = maskClipId;
defs.appendChild(clipPath);
clipPathEl.removeAttribute("id");
clipPath.appendChild(clipPathEl);
el.setAttribute("clip-path", `url(#${maskClipId})`);
el.style.strokeWidth = strokeWidth * 2;
}
});
}
}
body {
margin: 2em;
}
svg {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
overflow: visible;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
body {
margin: 2em;
}
svg {
height: 20em;
overflow: visible;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
<p><button onclick="emulateStrokeAlign()">Emulate stroke align</button></p>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 380 120">
<g id="myGroup" style="fill:rgb(45, 130, 255); stroke:#000; stroke-width:10; stroke-opacity:1;">
<rect id="el1" stroke-alignment="outer" x="10" y="10" width="100" height="100" />
<rect id="el2" x="140" y="10" width="100" height="100" />
<rect id="el3" stroke-alignment="inner" x="270" y="10" width="100" height="100" />
</g>
</svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 12 6" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" stroke-width="0.5">
<path d="M1,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5z" fill="blue" stroke-align="outer" stroke="red" stroke-opacity="0.5" stroke-linecap="butt" />
<path d="M7,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5z" fill="blue" stroke-align="inner" stroke="red" stroke-opacity="0.5" />
</svg>
Hardcoded offset via paper.js offset glenzli's plugin
This approach will actually grow/shrink your <path> elements to get the desired stroke position (using the default middle stroke-alignment).
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.style.display='none';
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
//const canvas = document.querySelector("canvas");
paper.setup(canvas);
let strokeEls = document.querySelectorAll("*[stroke-alignment]");
strokeEls.forEach((el,i) => {
let type = el.nodeName;
let style = window.getComputedStyle(el);
let strokeWidth = parseFloat(style.strokeWidth);
let strokeAlignment = el.getAttribute('stroke-alignment');
let offset = strokeAlignment==='outer' ? strokeWidth/2 : (strokeAlignment==='inner' ? strokeWidth / -2 : 0);
// convert primitive
if(type!=='path'){
el = convertPrimitiveToPath(el);
}
let d = el.getAttribute("d");
let polyPath = new paper.Path(el.getAttribute("d"));
let dOffset = offset ? PaperOffset.offset(polyPath, offset)
.exportSVG()
.getAttribute("d") : d;
el.setAttribute("d", dOffset);
});
body{
margin:2em;
}
svg{
width:100%;
overflow:visible;
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
<svg viewBox="0 0 12 6" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" stroke-width="0.5">
<path d="M1,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5" stroke="black" fill="none" stroke-linejoin="miter"/>
<path d="M1,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5" fill="none" stroke-linejoin="miter" stroke-alignment="outer" stroke="red" stroke-opacity="0.5" />
<path d="M7,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5" stroke="black" fill="none" stroke-linejoin="round" />
<path d="M7,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5" fill="none" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-alignment="inner" stroke="red" stroke-opacity="0.5" />
</svg>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/paper#0.12.15/dist/paper-full.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/paperjs-offset#1.0.8/dist/paperjs-offset.js"></script>
However, the library struggles with complex shapes.

SVG outer alignment of semi transparent stroke [duplicate]

Currently building a browser-based SVG application. Within this app, various shapes can be styled and positioned by the user, including rectangles.
When I apply a stroke-width to an SVG rect element of say 1px, the stroke is applied to the rect’s offset and inset in different ways by different browsers. This is proving to be troublesome, especially when I try to calculate the outer width and visual position of a rectangle and position it next to other elements.
For example:
Firefox adds 1px inset (bottom and left), and 1px offset (top and right)
Chrome adds 1px inset (top and left), and 1px offset (bottom and right)
My only solution so far would be to draw the actual borders myself (probably with the path tool) and position the borders behind the stroked element. But this solution is an unpleasant workaround, and I’d prefer not to go down this road if possible.
So my question is, can you control how an SVG’s stroke-width is drawn on elements?
No, you cannot specify whether the stroke is drawn inside or outside an element. I made a proposal to the SVG working group for this functionality in 2003, but it received no support (or discussion).
As I noted in the proposal,
you can achieve the same visual result as "inside" by doubling your stroke width and then using a clipping path to clip the object to itself, and
you can achieve the same visual result as 'outside' by doubling the stroke width and then overlaying a no-stroke copy of the object on top of itself.
Edit: This answer may be wrong in the future. It should be possible to achieve these results using SVG Vector Effects, by combining veStrokePath with veIntersect (for 'inside') or with veExclude (for 'outside). However, Vector Effects are still a working draft module with no implementations that I can yet find.
Edit 2: The SVG 2 draft specification includes a stroke-alignment property (with center|inside|outside possible values). This property may make it into UAs eventually.
Edit 3: Amusingly and dissapointingly, the SVG working group has removed stroke-alignment from SVG 2. You can see some of the concerns described after the prose here.
UPDATE: The stroke-alignment attribute was on April 1st, 2015 moved to a completely new spec called SVG Strokes.
As of the SVG 2.0 Editor’s Draft of February 26th, 2015 (and possibly since February 13th), the stroke-alignment property is present with the values inner, center (default) and outer.
It seems to work the same way as the stroke-location property proposed by #Phrogz and the later stroke-position suggestion. This property has been planned since at least 2011, but apart from an annotation that said
SVG 2 shall include a way to specify stroke position
, it has never been detailed in the spec as it was deferred - until now, it seems.
No browser support this property, or, as far as I know, any of the new SVG 2 features, yet, but hopefully they will soon as the spec matures. This has been a property I personally have been urging to have, and I'm really happy that it's finally there in the spec.
There seems to be some issues as to how to the property should behave on open paths as well as loops. These issues will, most probably, prolong implementations across browsers. However, I will update this answer with new information as browsers begin to support this property.
I found an easy way, which has a few restrictions, but worked for me:
define the shape in defs
define a clip path referencing the shape
use it and double the stroke with as the outside is clipped
Here a working example:
<svg width="240" height="240" viewBox="0 0 1024 1024">
<defs>
<path id="ld" d="M256,0 L0,512 L384,512 L128,1024 L1024,384 L640,384 L896,0 L256,0 Z"/>
<clipPath id="clip">
<use xlink:href="#ld"/>
</clipPath>
</defs>
<g>
<use xlink:href="#ld" stroke="#0081C6" stroke-width="160" fill="#00D2B8" clip-path="url(#clip)"/>
</g>
</svg>
You can use CSS to style the order of stroke and fills. That is, stroke first and then fill second, and get the desired effect.
MDN on paint-order: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/paint-order
CSS code:
paint-order: stroke;
Here's a function that will calculate how many pixels you need to add - using the given stroke - to the top, right, bottom and left, all based on the browser:
var getStrokeOffsets = function(stroke){
var strokeFloor = Math.floor(stroke / 2), // max offset
strokeCeil = Math.ceil(stroke / 2); // min offset
if($.browser.mozilla){ // Mozilla offsets
return {
bottom: strokeFloor,
left: strokeFloor,
top: strokeCeil,
right: strokeCeil
};
}else if($.browser.webkit){ // WebKit offsets
return {
bottom: strokeCeil,
left: strokeFloor,
top: strokeFloor,
right: strokeCeil
};
}else{ // default offsets
return {
bottom: strokeCeil,
left: strokeCeil,
top: strokeCeil,
right: strokeCeil
};
}
};
As people above have noted you'll either have to recalculate an offset to the stroke's path coordinates or double its width and then mask one side or the other, because not only does SVG not natively support Illustrator's stroke alignment, but PostScript doesn't either.
The specification for strokes in Adobe's PostScript Manual 2nd edition states:
"4.5.1 Stroking:
The stroke operator draws a line of some thickness along the current path. For each straight or curved segment in the path, stroke draws a line that is centered on the segment with sides parallel to the segment." (emphasis theirs)
The rest of the specification has no attributes for offsetting the line's position. When Illustrator lets you align inside or outside, it's recalculating the actual path's offset (because it's still computationally cheaper than overprinting then masking). The path coordinates in the .ai document are reference, not what gets rastered or exported to a final format.
Because Inkscape's native format is spec SVG, it can't offer a feature the spec lacks.
Here is a work around for inner bordered rect using symbol and use.
Example: https://jsbin.com/yopemiwame/edit?html,output
SVG:
<svg>
<symbol id="inner-border-rect">
<rect class="inner-border" width="100%" height="100%" style="fill:rgb(0,255,255);stroke-width:10;stroke:rgb(0,0,0)">
</symbol>
...
<use xlink:href="#inner-border-rect" x="?" y="?" width="?" height="?">
</svg>
Note: Make sure to replace the ? in use with real values.
Background: The reason why this works is because symbol establishes a new viewport by replacing symbol with svg and creating an element in the shadow DOM. This svg of the shadow DOM is then linked into your current SVG element. Note that svgs can be nested and every svg creates a new viewport, which clips everything that overlaps, including the overlapping border. For a much more detailed overview of whats going on read this fantastic article by Sara Soueidan.
I don’t know how helpful will that be but in my case I just created another circle with border only and placed it “inside” the other shape.
This worked for me:
.btn {
border: 1px solid black;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px black;
}
A (dirty) possible solution is by using patterns,
here is an example with an inside stroked triangle :
https://jsfiddle.net/qr3p7php/5/
<style>
#triangle1{
fill: #0F0;
fill-opacity: 0.3;
stroke: #000;
stroke-opacity: 0.5;
stroke-width: 20;
}
#triangle2{
stroke: #f00;
stroke-opacity: 1;
stroke-width: 1;
}
</style>
<svg height="210" width="400" >
<pattern id="fagl" patternUnits="objectBoundingBox" width="2" height="1" x="-50%">
<path id="triangle1" d="M150 0 L75 200 L225 200 Z">
</pattern>
<path id="triangle2" d="M150 0 L75 200 L225 200 Z" fill="url(#fagl)"/>
</svg>
The solution from Xavier Ho of doubling the width of the stroke and changing the paint-order is brilliant, although only works if the fill is a solid color, with no transparency.
I have developed other approach, more complicated but works for any fill. It also works in ellipses or paths (with the later there are some corner cases with strange behaviour, for example open paths that crosses theirselves, but not much).
The trick is to display the shape in two layers. One without stroke (only fill), and another one only with stroke at double width (transparent fill) and passed through a mask that shows the whole shape, but hides the original shape without stroke.
<svg width="240" height="240" viewBox="0 0 1024 1024">
<defs>
<path id="ld" d="M256,0 L0,512 L384,512 L128,1024 L1024,384 L640,384 L896,0 L256,0 Z"/>
<mask id="mask">
<use xlink:href="#ld" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="160" fill="#FFFFFF"/>
<use xlink:href="#ld" fill="#000000"/>
</mask>
</defs>
<g>
<use xlink:href="#ld" fill="#00D2B8"/>
<use xlink:href="#ld" stroke="#0081C6" stroke-width="160" fill="red" mask="url(#mask)"/>
</g>
</svg>
The easiest way I found is to add clip-path into circle
Add clip-path="circle()"
<circle id="circle" clip-path="circle()" cx="100" cy="100" r="100" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="5" />
Then the stroke-width="5" will magically become inner 5px stroke with absolute 100px radius.
Update 2023: The current draft renamed the attribute to stroke-align
Browser Support 2023:
See caniuse
This CSS property is not supported in any modern browser, nor are
there any known plans to support it.
Polyfill-like helper function
Based on the previous approaches to combine paint-order, mask and clip-path.
(As suggested by #Xavier Ho
#Jorg Janke)
//emulateStrokeAlign();
function emulateStrokeAlign() {
let supportsSvgStrokeAlign = CSS.supports("stroke-align", "outer") ?
true :
CSS.supports("stroke-alignment", "outer") ?
true :
false;
console.log("supportsSvgStrokeAlign", supportsSvgStrokeAlign);
if (!supportsSvgStrokeAlign) {
let ns = "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
let strokeAlignmentEls = document.querySelectorAll(
"*[stroke-alignment], *[stroke-align]"
);
strokeAlignmentEls.forEach((el, s) => {
let svg = el.closest("svg");
// set auto ids to prevent non-unique mask ids
let svgID = svg.id ? svg.id : "svg_" + s;
svg.id = svgID;
//create <defs> if not previously appended
let defs = svg.querySelector("defs");
if (!defs) {
defs = document.createElementNS(ns, "defs");
svg.insertBefore(defs, svg.children[0]);
}
let style = window.getComputedStyle(el);
let strokeWidth = parseFloat(style.strokeWidth);
let strokeAlignment = el.getAttribute("stroke-alignment") ?
el.getAttribute("stroke-alignment") :
el.getAttribute("stroke-align");
el.removeAttribute("stroke-align");
el.removeAttribute("stroke-alignment");
el.setAttribute("data-stroke-align", strokeAlignment);
let maskClipId = `mask-${svgID}-${s}`;
if (strokeAlignment === "outer") {
// create mask
let mask = document.createElementNS(ns, "mask");
mask.id = maskClipId;
let maskEl = el.cloneNode();
mask.appendChild(maskEl);
defs.appendChild(mask);
maskEl.setAttribute("fill", "#000");
mask.setAttribute("maskUnits", "userSpaceOnUse");
maskEl.setAttribute("stroke", "#fff");
maskEl.removeAttribute("stroke-opacity");
maskEl.removeAttribute("id");
maskEl.setAttribute("paint-order", "stroke");
maskEl.style.strokeWidth = strokeWidth * 2;
// clone stroke
let cloneStroke = el.cloneNode();
cloneStroke.style.fill = "none";
cloneStroke.style.strokeWidth = strokeWidth * 2;
cloneStroke.removeAttribute("id");
cloneStroke.removeAttribute("stroke-alignment");
cloneStroke.classList.add("cloneStrokeOuter");
cloneStroke.setAttribute("mask", `url(#${maskClipId})`);
el.parentNode.insertBefore(cloneStroke, el.nextElementSibling);
//remove stroke from original element
el.style.stroke = "none";
}
if (strokeAlignment === "inner") {
//create clipPath
let clipPathEl = el.cloneNode();
let clipPath = document.createElementNS(ns, "clipPath");
clipPath.id = maskClipId;
defs.appendChild(clipPath);
clipPathEl.removeAttribute("id");
clipPath.appendChild(clipPathEl);
el.setAttribute("clip-path", `url(#${maskClipId})`);
el.style.strokeWidth = strokeWidth * 2;
}
});
}
}
body {
margin: 2em;
}
svg {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
overflow: visible;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
body {
margin: 2em;
}
svg {
height: 20em;
overflow: visible;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
<p><button onclick="emulateStrokeAlign()">Emulate stroke align</button></p>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 380 120">
<g id="myGroup" style="fill:rgb(45, 130, 255); stroke:#000; stroke-width:10; stroke-opacity:1;">
<rect id="el1" stroke-alignment="outer" x="10" y="10" width="100" height="100" />
<rect id="el2" x="140" y="10" width="100" height="100" />
<rect id="el3" stroke-alignment="inner" x="270" y="10" width="100" height="100" />
</g>
</svg>
<svg viewBox="0 0 12 6" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" stroke-width="0.5">
<path d="M1,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5z" fill="blue" stroke-align="outer" stroke="red" stroke-opacity="0.5" stroke-linecap="butt" />
<path d="M7,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5z" fill="blue" stroke-align="inner" stroke="red" stroke-opacity="0.5" />
</svg>
Hardcoded offset via paper.js offset glenzli's plugin
This approach will actually grow/shrink your <path> elements to get the desired stroke position (using the default middle stroke-alignment).
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.style.display='none';
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
//const canvas = document.querySelector("canvas");
paper.setup(canvas);
let strokeEls = document.querySelectorAll("*[stroke-alignment]");
strokeEls.forEach((el,i) => {
let type = el.nodeName;
let style = window.getComputedStyle(el);
let strokeWidth = parseFloat(style.strokeWidth);
let strokeAlignment = el.getAttribute('stroke-alignment');
let offset = strokeAlignment==='outer' ? strokeWidth/2 : (strokeAlignment==='inner' ? strokeWidth / -2 : 0);
// convert primitive
if(type!=='path'){
el = convertPrimitiveToPath(el);
}
let d = el.getAttribute("d");
let polyPath = new paper.Path(el.getAttribute("d"));
let dOffset = offset ? PaperOffset.offset(polyPath, offset)
.exportSVG()
.getAttribute("d") : d;
el.setAttribute("d", dOffset);
});
body{
margin:2em;
}
svg{
width:100%;
overflow:visible;
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
<svg viewBox="0 0 12 6" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" stroke-width="0.5">
<path d="M1,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5" stroke="black" fill="none" stroke-linejoin="miter"/>
<path d="M1,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5" fill="none" stroke-linejoin="miter" stroke-alignment="outer" stroke="red" stroke-opacity="0.5" />
<path d="M7,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5" stroke="black" fill="none" stroke-linejoin="round" />
<path d="M7,5 a2,2 0,0,0 2,-3 a3,3 0 0 1 2,3.5" fill="none" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-alignment="inner" stroke="red" stroke-opacity="0.5" />
</svg>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/paper#0.12.15/dist/paper-full.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/paperjs-offset#1.0.8/dist/paperjs-offset.js"></script>
However, the library struggles with complex shapes.

Apply styles to an imported SVG [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
How to apply a style to an embedded SVG?
(6 answers)
Closed 7 years ago.
I have a database that outputs an object with an SVG referenced within it. Inside this SVG I've got an external style sheet and what I would like to do is reference the class of in this SVG imported style sheet so I can colour the icons appropriately.
At the moment it doesn't appear to recognise the class of the object at all and I wondered if this was even possible?
Alternatively, is there any way I could apply a dynamically named id or class to part of the svg code that's imported via object, which I could then reference using the stylesheet.
Here is a snippet of the HTML:
<object class="getFit" type="image/svg+xml" data="../images/well-being/imageurl">
Your browser does not support SVG</object>
The SVG:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 18.1.1, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0) -->
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="../../well#york/svg-health.css" ?>
<svg version="1.2" baseProfile="tiny" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px"
y="0px" width="128px" height="128px" viewBox="0 0 128 128" xml:space="preserve">
<g id="_x31_28px_boxes">
<rect fill="none" width="128" height="128"/>
</g>
<g id="Production">
<g>
<path d="M47.9005,68.2746l-7.8831,11.5446L19.607,81.4577c-8.0373,0.6451-7.0919,12.8251,0.9781,12.1809
l23.3208-1.8721c1.8405-0.1478,3.5156-1.12,4.5568-2.6449l6.9434-10.1685C51.7793,76.2057,48.8114,72.7493,47.9005,68.2746z"/>
<path d="M111.0477,57.7956l-14.9185-2.9008C86.0095,31.5106,87.623,33.068,57.7699,25.3819
c-1.2517-0.3173-2.6302-0.0971-3.7574,0.7207L37.0909,38.3789c-3.719,2.6923-0.1874,8.4495,3.8984,6.3709l16.4271-8.357
l10.1408,2.6252c-3.2134,5.3099-0.6341,1.3988-13.1933,19.7913c-3.6807,6.4816-2.3874,11.5738,3.6894,16.2671l0.0034-0.005
c0.106,0.0745,16.7525,10.2843,16.7525,10.2843l-9.1826,24.4947c-2.8514,7.6054,8.6288,11.7947,11.4423,4.2895l10.9522-29.2146
c1.0273-2.7405-0.033-5.8246-2.5283-7.3541l-15.6026-9.5634l12.6636-17.919C82.588,50.1536,88.638,61.782,88.638,61.782
c0.6839,1.2147,1.9524,2.0668,3.4475,2.1532l18.0603,1.0444C114.6242,65.2435,115.4678,58.6551,111.0477,57.7956z"/>
<path d="M94.179,31.8982c5.9954-1.2801,9.8316-7.1943,8.553-13.1839c-1.2356-5.8638-7.077-9.8554-13.1953-8.5549
c-5.9856,1.2878-9.8276,7.21-8.562,13.2012C82.2281,29.2015,88.0569,33.2142,94.179,31.8982z"/>
</g>
</g>
</svg>
My CSS:
#charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
.getFit path, object.getFit circle
{
fill:#ff5000;
}
.eatWell path, object.eatWell circle
{
fill:#009F14;
}
.feelGood path, object.feelGood circle
{
fill:#ffc200;
}
When using object the content is confined to its document.
How to apply external stylesheet to an embedded SVG?
What you are trying to do is even more complicated.
but it is possible.
If each of your icons gets a css file then you can use javascript to add a stylesheet to your svg document when its loaded.
var svgobject = document.getElementsByClassName(".getFit");
for (var i=0; i<svgObject.length; i++)
var svgDoc = svgObject[i].contentDocument;
var linkElm = svgDoc.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "link");
linkElm.setAttribute("href", "getFitStyle.css");
linkElm.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
linkElm.setAttribute("rel", "stylesheet");
svgDoc.getElementById("where-to-insert").appendChild(linkElm);
}

SVG with USE tag not rendering

The DOM already includes an empty SVG tag (svg). When I try to dynamically append a USE tag of an existing SVG symbol (symbol) with an id (iconId):
svg.empty();
svg[0].setAttribute('viewBox', symbol.getAttribute('viewBox'));
svg.append('<use xlink:href="#' + iconId + '"></use>');
it no longer renders the SVG. In Chrome, it renders if I add:
element.html(element.html());
or manually manipulate the viewBox attribute, but that's not a real solution and IE doesn't like it at all.
It's worth mentioning that if I append SVG graphics directly, the element renders.
What is happening here and why isn't the SVG drawing after appending the USE tag?
After all it was indeed a matter of namespaces.
Specifically, SVG elements and attributes must be created and set using document.createElementNS and node.setAttributeNS.
$(document).ready(function(evt) {
var svgns = 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg',
xlinkns = 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink',
use = document.createElementNS(svgns, 'use');
use.setAttributeNS(xlinkns, 'xlink:href', '#save');
document.getElementById('useSVG').appendChild(use);
});
#svgStore {
display: none;
}
#useSVG {
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<svg style="display:none;" id="svgStore" style="display: none;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<symbol viewBox="0 0 16 16" id="save"><title>save</title> <g id="svgstore3748a955346b4a088bbdc55a22f56504_x31_6_13_">
<path style="fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;" d="M9,4h2V2H9V4z M13,13H3v1h10V13z M13,11H3v1h10V11z M13,0H0v16h16V3L13,0z
M3,1h9v4H3V1z M14,15H2V8h12V15z M13,9H3v1h10V9z">
</path>
</g>
</symbol>
</svg>
SVG use:
<svg id="useSVG" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg>
Thanks to #RobertLongson and http://www.kevlindev.com/tutorials/basics/shapes/js_dom/ for directing to the answer.