Embedded <image> not rendered when using SVG as background-image - html

I have an SVG image with an illustration of a cloud.
The cloud is going to be used in several weather icons. I have another SVG file that embeds the cloud illustration and adds another graphical element, a circle.
Now, this main SVG file shows up fine when I open it directly in the browser:
However, when I use the file as a background-image, the cloud is not rendered:
Here's a JSFiddle.
What the heck?
It shouldn't be a relative path issue because the image shows up fine when I call the main SVG in the browser (and I tried using an absolute path to no avail)
It's not a clipping issue - if you change the background-size property in the JSFiddle, you'll see the entire image area is rendered, just without the cloud.
The cloud was generated by Adobe Illustrator and not optimized yet, but seems to look ok.
This is the main SVG's markup:
<svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 200 200" version="1.1"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<circle cx="0" cy="-0" r="30" style="fill:red" />
<image x="12" y="12" width="20" height="40" xlink:href="elements/cloud.svg" />
</svg>
What am I doing wrong?
I've tested this in Safari 9.1.2 and latest Chrome on OS X, with the same result.

All SVGs that are inserted as images (through the img tag or as a background-image) cannot reference external files. So if you have an external CSS stylesheet, a custom font, or as in your case an external image, it won't work.
The solution would be to embed the image data within the xlink:href attribute:
<svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 200 200" version="1.1"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<circle cx="0" cy="-0" r="30" style="fill:red" />
<image x="12" y="12" width="20" height="40" xlink:href="data:image/svg+xml,%0A%3Csvg%20id%3D%22Ebene_1%22%20data-name%3D%22Ebene%201%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20284%20179%22%3E%3Cdefs%3E%3Cstyle%3E.cls-1%7Bfill%3Anone%3B%7D.cls-2%7Bclip-path%3Aurl(%23clip-path)%3B%7D.cls-3%7Bfill%3A%23508f9e%3B%7D%3C%2Fstyle%3E%3CclipPath%20id%3D%22clip-path%22%20transform%3D%22translate(-278.44%20-208.09)%22%3E%3Crect%20class%3D%22cls-1%22%20x%3D%22279.44%22%20y%3D%22207.09%22%20width%3D%22284%22%20height%3D%22179%22%2F%3E%3C%2FclipPath%3E%3C%2Fdefs%3E%3Ctitle%3Ecloud%3C%2Ftitle%3E%3Cg%20class%3D%22cls-2%22%3E%3Cg%20id%3D%22TK6tin%22%3E%3Cpath%20class%3D%22cls-3%22%20d%3D%22M562.44%2C302.09c-4.19%2C9-7.71%2C18.44-13.39%2C26.63-9.1%2C13.12-21.26%2C22.65-35.52%2C30.06C497.65%2C367%2C481%2C372.3%2C463.34%2C373.68c-17%2C1.33-32.1-3.68-43.58-16.9-3-3.43-4.87-2.72-7.56-.06-6%2C5.92-11.9%2C11.83-19.1%2C16.52-9.22%2C6-19.37%2C9.45-29.58%2C13a4.17%2C4.17%2C0%2C0%2C0-1.09.89h-19c-7.91-2.63-15.56-5.83-21.8-11.53a10%2C10%2C0%2C0%2C0-6.55-2.63c-15.38-1.29-32.37-10.18-35.09-28.87-0.38-2.61.39-5.62-1.56-8v-5c2.09-3.79%2C1.2-8.2%2C2.85-12.26%2C2.87-7.07%2C8.91-9.62%2C15-11.45%2C5.41-1.62%2C9.87-3%2C11.87-9%2C3.9-11.71%2C12.39-17.5%2C24.66-17.08%2C5.43%2C0.18%2C7.92-1.18%2C10.39-6.77%2C4.51-10.24%2C12-18.52%2C21.06-25.77A171.48%2C171.48%2C0%2C0%2C1%2C398.75%2C227c20.39-9.63%2C41.2-17.45%2C64.13-17.83%2C1%2C0%2C2%2C.11%2C2.55-1.06h7c2.35%2C2.26%2C5.3.64%2C7.93%2C1.21%2C13%2C2.81%2C25.88%2C6.08%2C37.28%2C13.42%2C8.3%2C5.35%2C17.12%2C10.07%2C23.36%2C18a94%2C94%2C0%2C0%2C1%2C10.57%2C17.12c4.56%2C9.4%2C9.31%2C18.73%2C10.86%2C29.24v15ZM318.12%2C365.24c1.49%2C0.13%2C1.71%2C1.24%2C2.29%2C2a37.42%2C37.42%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C25.1%2C14.71c15%2C2%2C28.63-2.48%2C41.61-9.82C397.41%2C366.3%2C405%2C357.4%2C413.92%2C350c2.08-1.74%2C3.65-2.89%2C5.66-.08%2C12.35%2C17.29%2C30.17%2C21.51%2C49.68%2C19a127.56%2C127.56%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C54.87-21c16.7-11.17%2C26.73-27.07%2C33.68-45.37%2C0.68-1.8.5-3.59%2C0.63-5.41%2C1.16-16.58-6.55-30.39-13.88-44.3a39.91%2C39.91%2C0%2C0%2C0-7.73-10.86c-13.58-12.69-28.91-22-47.27-26.37-15.43-3.68-30.69-3.42-46.1-.72-15.69%2C2.75-30.25%2C8.85-44.45%2C15.69-23.79%2C11.46-45.28%2C25.58-54.66%2C52.22a3.16%2C3.16%2C0%2C0%2C1-3.27%2C2.38c-3.81.17-7.6%2C0.73-11.42%2C1-9.24.54-15.85%2C4.7-17.71%2C13.68-1.27%2C6.13-4.13%2C9-9.56%2C10.64-1.3.39-2.6%2C0.42-3.85%2C0.75-5.69%2C1.52-11.51%2C3.66-13.65%2C9.54-4.64%2C12.77-2.74%2C26.7%2C6.27%2C37.43%2C6%2C7.19%2C14.75%2C9.64%2C23.74%2C10.93%2C0.84%2C0.12%2C1.74%2C1.26%2C2.8.06C317.92%2C368%2C316.87%2C366.61%2C318.12%2C365.24Z%22%20transform%3D%22translate(-278.44%20-208.09)%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E" />
</svg>

Please follow the explanation in this link:
https://css-tricks.com/using-svg/
You need to enter the full svg code. you can get it from photoshop or online tools like this:
.background-img {
background: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='30' height='30'><circle cx='15' cy='15' r='10' /></svg>") no-repeat;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
}

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SVG image embedded in web page doesn't show

I'm trying to embed a set of SVG images in a blank web page.
<html><head></head>
<body>
<img width="117px" src="img/icone/phone_hex034F84.svg" alt="image">
<img width="320px" src="img/illustrazioni/SHIPPER3.svg" alt="image">
</body>
</html>
Both files are self-contained svg generated by Illustrator.
While the first does render in the browser the second (SHIPPER3.svg) doesn't.
See the code: http://104.155.112.173/land/img/illustrazioni/SHIPPER3.svg
You can download the full source from the previous link as I cannot embed it in the question (too large). Although, I'll embed here just the preamble.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 20.0.0, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0) -->
<svg version="1.1" id="_x5B_SHIPPER1_x5D_" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px"
y="0px" viewBox="0 0 733.3 587.8" style="enable-background:new 0 0 733.3 587.8;" xml:space="preserve">
<style type="text/css">
.st0{clip-path:url(#SVGID_2_);}
.st1{fill:#EDEDED;}
.st2{fill:#F2F2F2;}
If I copy and paste SHIPPER3.svg in http://www.freecodeformat.com/svg-editor.php it does render. I can also open it in Sketch with no problems.
I tried to embed SHIPPER3.svg also as inline svg but same, again, no show.
What I am missing?
Several problems in your SHIPPER3.svg:
all your top-level groups has class st0 which is said to be clipped out by clipPath that is outside entire viewBox
clipPath #SVGID_2_ has style="display:none;" what also hides it
See:
<svg version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 733.3 587.8">
<style type="text/css">
.st0{clip-path:url(#SVGID_2_);}
/* ... */
</style>
<defs>
<ellipse id="SVGID_1_" cx="1085.6" cy="279.3" rx="251.8" ry="233.4"/>
</defs>
<clipPath id="SVGID_2_">
<use xlink:href="#SVGID_1_" style="display:none;overflow:visible;"/>
</clipPath>
<g class="st0">
<!-- ... -->
</g>
</svg>
Further to a comment I left above, you may wish to replace the <clippath id='SVGID_2_' element with the following:
<clipPath xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="SVGID_2_">
<ellipse xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="SVGID_1_" cx="360" cy="290" rx="325" ry="260"/>
</clipPath>
This does 2 things. (0) it removes the link to the SVGID_1_ element by inserting the data that was inside it directly. (1) repositions and sizes the ellipse

svg icons in IE9 do not display correctly

Our svg icons included using the img tag are getting incorrectly resized, cut off, or completely hidden when displayed in IE9.
The solution in https://gist.github.com/larrybotha/7881691 (setting the viewBox, removing width and height) does not help and neither does including the images as background.
When included using the tag, the SVGs display properly (but then they do not display in some modern browsers like chrome)
One of the icons we use has the following source:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Generated by IcoMoon.io -->
<svg id="svg2" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" viewBox="0 0 640 640">
<metadata id="metadata167">
<rdf:RDF>
<cc:Work rdf:about="">
<dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
<dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage"/>
<dc:title/>
</cc:Work>
</rdf:RDF>
</metadata>
<path id="path161" fill="#c6c6c6" d="m227.88,640.44c-19.924,0-38.795-9.298-50.887-25.329l-163.69-216.1c-21.298-28.12-15.756-68.15,12.367-89.45,28.169-21.34,68.155-15.76,89.456,12.37l107.68,142.17,270.79-434.72c18.64-29.909,58.03-39.07,87.98-20.428,29.91,18.596,39.07,58.032,20.39,87.942l-319.85,513.45c-11.13,17.909-30.321,29.131-51.345,30.047-0.96187,0.0458-1.9237,0.0458-2.8856,0.0458z" stroke="#c6c6c6"/>
</svg>
Any idea on what we could do to make SVG render properly in IE9?
I can't be sure that this will answer your question without seeing the specific code you're having problems with, Jakub. But I always include the following attributes in every SVG element, as a minimum. This always gives me a good level of cross-browser consistency, back to IE9:
<svg height="40" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 40 40" width="40" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
If that doesn't help, could you share your code?
Wrapping the svg into a div and giving that a width seems to work fine for me.
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/qONXzz
.svg-test{
width: 50px;
}
It seems that the only method for embedding and resizing an external xml file that works correctly in all browsers is the one described in http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Using_SVG_with_HTML5_tutorial
So instead of
<img src="./images/icons/icons-complete.svg" style="width: 11px;height:11px;"/>
you can use
<svg height="11" width="11"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<g transform="scale(0.0172)">
<image x="0" y="0" height="640" width="640" xlink:href="/images/icons/icons-complete.svg"/>
</g>
</svg>

Where to place external svg file to be referenced by CSS?

I'm trying to reference SVG filters from CSS. Both are external.
It works fine when the SVG filter defs are inline but does not work when in external file.
I do not want the SVG inline to avoid a bloated html file.
According to this link, it should work if the svg comes from the "same origins" as the html. I'm not clear what "same origins" means.
My directory structure is:
index.html
\css
I tried all these without success:
putting the svg file on root with index
as well as in the css directory
using path url(css/test.svg#LightItUp);
putting the css inline like so: #LightItUp {filter:url(css/test.svg#LightItUp);}
The svg content:
<svg width="500" height="262" viewBox="0 0 200 150" >
<defs>
<filter id="LightItUp" filterUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x="0" y="0" width="400" height="420">
<!-- Apply a uniform blur of the
alpha channel -->
<feGaussianBlur in="SourceAlpha"
stdDeviation="3" result="blur"/>
</filter>
</defs>
</svg>
The css content:
.logo { filter: url(test.svg#LightItUp); }
Any help will be appreciated
Add it similar to a normal image
<object data="your.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
<img src="yourfallback.jpg" />
</object>

Svg with image inside is not showing in safari

Inside my website, I am embeding a few svgs. They all seem to work just fine in Chrome, Firefox, IE(9+) and in Safari. Howvere as soon as there is image included in the svg, safari does not render the image.
Based on the previous similar topic I have tried the following:
SVG <image> elements not displaying in Safari - enclosing
<use>
tag like this <use></use>
SVG Image dosen't appear in Safari - I dont find this very usefull,cause this is deleting aprt of the svg.
Not able to render SVG image in Safari - Added
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml"> in header.
And beyond that, I dont really know what else to try. Maybe one more interesting thing to note is that inside my page, image is not displayed, but I can open svg file in safari(just the file) and it will be renderd correctly. Further more, after it's opened in the browser as a file, it renders inside the page as well. And I embed the svg to the page with img tag.
<img src="mysvg.svg" class="center-block"/>
This is my svg:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 15.1.0, 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="328px" height="328px" viewBox="0 0 328 328" enable-background="new 0 0 328 328" xml:space="preserve">
<g>
<defs>
<polygon id="SVGID_1_" points="1.414,164.001 164,326.586 326.586,164.001 164,1.414 "/>
</defs>
<clipPath id="SVGID_2_">
<use xlink:href="#SVGID_1_" overflow="visible"></use>
</clipPath>
<g id="DSC_x5F_0112-2.psd" clip-path="url(#SVGID_2_)">
<g id="DSC_x5F_0112-2.psd_1_" enable-background="new ">
<image overflow="visible" width="338" height="532" id="DSC_x5F_0112-2" xlink:href="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4QAYRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP/sABFEdWNreQABAAQAAABkAAD/4QNhaHR0cDov
.....SLKPF+7j+acOZPZjmsw4Q0f0L/6k1fu3WFvY/wDEB5o0d7H7/wD7SPFgPzVE54J9/wBI/qez5vei
r/fdeaS//9k=" transform="matrix(0.9818 0 0 0.9818 -2.7197 -11.064)">
</image>
</g>
</g>
</g>
<g>
<path fill="#FFFFFF" d="M164,328.001L0,164.002L164,0.001l164,164.001L164,328.001z M1.414,164.002L164,326.587l162.586-162.585
L164,1.415L1.414,164.002z"/>
</g>
</svg>
I have reduced base64 image string, to shorten the code. Full svg can be found here.
UPDATE: Just to be clear, svg shows in the browser(safari) but image is missing (I can see just border).
It looks like this WebKit bug is responsible for the problem: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99677
The workaround we use in our application is to have a script which finds all img elements displaying SVG images and add hidden object elements loading the same SVGs (<object style="position: fixed; width: 0; height: 0;" data="image.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></object>).
The reason it works is that the object tag properly loads the embedded images into the image cache, so that they are visible within the SVGs loaded using the img tags.
The advantage of this approach is that the images are still displayed using the img tag, so that the workaround can be applied (and later removed cleanly when the browsers are eventually patched) without affecting the rest of the application/website.
The disadvantage is the creation of an extra object tag for each SVG image.
This solution works for me when displaying an embedded SVG image in Safari.
replace
<img src="image.svg">
with
<object data="image.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></object>
I ran into this problem where I was using Ajax to load the svg spritesheet onto the page. If I had a on the page before the spritesheet was loaded, it would fail and would not resolve once the spritesheet was avaialble. Any added to the dom after the spritesheet was loaded were fine. I had to delay putting the items in the dom until after the spritesheet finished loading.
This only affected IOS. All other browsers didn't care about the order.
It seems that answer from this question works: What could make Safari skip clip-path AND mask with SVG?. See instructions in link from answer.
You have to recreate your clip path to make it visible. And </clippath> tag is not pushed after </image> tag.
Here is the little changed code (link to my image inserted so you will have to change it):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 15.1.0, 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="328px" height="328px" viewBox="0 0 328 328" enable-background="new 0 0 328 328" xml:space="preserve" >
<g>
<clipPath id="SVGID_2_">
<!--use xlink:href="#SVGID_1_" overflow="visible"></use-->
<polygon id="SVGID_1_" points="1.414,164.001 164,326.586 326.586,164.001 164,1.414" />
</clipPath>
<defs>
<polygon id="SVGID_1_" points="1.414,164.001 164,326.586 326.586,164.001 164,1.414"/>
</defs>
</g>
<image clip-path='url(#SVGID_2_)' overflow="visible" width="338" height="532" id="DSC_x5F_0112-2" xlink:href="images/banner_03.jpg" transform="matrix(0.9818 0 0 0.9818 -2.7197 -11.064)">
</image>
<g>
<path fill="#FFFFFF" d="M164,328.001L0,164.002L164,0.001l164,164.001L164,328.001z M1.414,164.002L164,326.587l162.586-162.585
L164,1.415L1.414,164.002z"/>
</g>
</svg>
So Anto Jurković pointed out, there are some known issues with Safari and clipPath. What Safari likes is if you dont define polygon but put it straight in to clippPath. Also you must then group clipPath separately.
But I still could not get svg to render the image if I used img tag for svg - <img src="svg"/>. So at the end I have embeded it like this:
<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="328px" height="328px" viewBox="0 0 328 328" enable-background="new 0 0 328 328" xml:space="preserve">
<g>
<clipPath id="SVGID_2_">
<polygon id="SVGID_1_" points="1.414,164.001 164,326.586 326.586,164.001 164,1.414 "/>
</clipPath>
</g>
<image clip-path="url(#SVGID_2_)" overflow="visible" width="338" height="532" id="DSC_x5F_0112-2" xlink:href="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/.....r/fdeaS//9k=">
</image>
<g>
<path fill="#FFFFFF" d="M164,328.001L0,164.002L164,0.001l164,164.001L164,328.001z M1.414,164.002L164,326.587l162.586-162.585
L164,1.415L1.414,164.002z"/>
</g>
</svg>
I can confirm that this renders correctly in mobile safari(on ipad and iphone, windows safari and mac safari - latest versions).
So to sum it up...I have this svgs in separate html file and render them when needed.

Reuse objects defined in <defs>?

I wanted to write a logo in svg, but surprisingly found that I could not re-use objects defined in <defs>...</defs>. I tried them on Chrome.
Please see examples:
test1.html doesn't work, no rect was drawn.
<!DOCTTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
width="480" height="360">
<defs>
<rect id="helo" x="0" y="0" height="20" width="20" />
</defs>
<use xlink:href="#helo" />
</svg>
</body>
</html>
BUT test2.svg works.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
width="480" height="360">
<defs>
<rect id="helo" x="0" y="0" height="20" width="20" />
</defs>
<use xlink:href="#helo" />
</svg>
What's needed to make the test1.html work?
Many thanks:)
It seems that this is a bug in Webkit:
Importing external SVG (with WebKit)
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12499
If you're going to create an SVG icon, I would make it in a separate .svg file and then add it into the HTML with the object tag. That would be better anyway since if you make changes to the SVG file and it will change all instance on your website.
The bug seems to have been fixed now however there is one important caveat here that when you are trying to re-use objects in the defs tag in SVG on a HTML page the xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" is important and must be added to the SVG tag. Without that the href isn't resolved.