How to give strokes a specific width based on base64 - html

Question

i'm trying to build a stroked line, based on a svg file, cause of the color and the corner shapes that it has. Each stroke is 15px wide and has a gap between each line from also 15px. The problem is that when i try to include it via background-image it always makes the line longer than it actually should be.
.stroke-dotted {
background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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);
width: 100%;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
<div class="stroke-dotted"></div>
Thats how it should look like:
And that's how it looks now:
Is there a way to give the lines a specific width of 15px and also an gap of 15px? I also tried to fix it with the background-size attribute, but it didn't worked out.

Answer 1

First things first: don't encode your SVG as a base64, it is much longer than the original code and its unnecessary as you can just add the code to the url. You might need to URL encode it for IE11 and earlier, but otherwise all browsers support it.
Now, to control your sizing in SVG tags, ommit the viewBox and simply give it a width and height of 100% and express all other values in percentage. Now you can control the size of the line by defining its pixel size, even though the points are defined in percentage:
div {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
left: 0%;
top: 0%;
background: url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf8,<svg width="100%" height="100%" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">\
<line x1="0%" y1="50%" x2="100%" y2="50%" stroke="cyan" stroke-width="1px" stroke-dasharray="15px 15px" />\
</svg>') no-repeat 50% 50% / cover;
}
body {
/* A reference grid */
background: url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf8,<svg width="15px" height="15px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">\
<rect x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" stroke="#222" stroke-width="1px" fill="black" />\
</svg>');
}
<div></div>
Once your SVG is correctly set up, it is as simple as defining the stroke-dasharray property with the pixel values:
<line x1="0%" y1="50%" x2="100%" y2="50%" stroke="black" stroke-width="1px" stroke-dasharray="15px 15px" />
Now you can use CSS to change your box, or even SVG to change the offsets within the SVG background.