Expanded Table of Contents

1 Introduction
- 1.1 About SVG
- 1.2 SVG Tiny 1.2
  - 1.2.1 Profiling the SVG specification
- 1.3 Defining an SVG Tiny 1.2 document
- 1.4 SVG MIME type, file name extension and Macintosh file type
- 1.5 Compatibility with other standards efforts
- 1.6 Definitions
- 1.7 How to reference this specification
2 Concepts
- 2.1 Explaining the name: SVG
  - 2.1.1 Scalable
  - 2.1.2 Vector
  - 2.1.3 Graphics
  - 2.1.4 XML
  - 2.1.5 Namespace
  - 2.1.6 Scriptable
- 2.2 Important SVG concepts
  - 2.2.1 Graphical objects
  - 2.2.2 Re-use
  - 2.2.3 Fonts
  - 2.2.4 Animation
- 2.3 Options for using SVG in Web pages
3 Rendering Model
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The painters model
- 3.3 Rendering order
- 3.4 Types of graphics elements
  - 3.4.1 Rendering shapes and text
  - 3.4.2 Rendering raster images
  - 3.4.3 Rendering video
- 3.5 Object opacity
- 3.6 Parent compositing
4 Basic Data Types
5 Document Structure
- 5.1 Defining an SVG document fragment: the 'svg' element
  - 5.1.1 Overview
  - 5.1.2 The 'svg' element
- 5.2 Grouping: the 'g' element
  - 5.2.1 Overview
  - 5.2.2 The 'g' element
- 5.3 The 'defs' element
- 5.4 The 'discard' element
- 5.5 The 'title' and 'desc' elements
  - 5.5.1 Applicable 'title' and 'desc'
  - 5.5.2 Multiple 'title' and 'desc' elements
  - 5.5.3 User interface behavior for 'title' and 'desc'
- 5.6 The 'use' element
- 5.7 The 'image' element
- 5.8 Conditional processing
  - 5.8.1 Conditional processing overview
  - 5.8.2 The 'switch' element
  - 5.8.3 The 'requiredFeatures' attribute
  - 5.8.4 The 'requiredExtensions' attribute
  - 5.8.5 The 'systemLanguage' attribute
  - 5.8.6 The 'requiredFormats' attribute
  - 5.8.7 The 'requiredFonts' attribute
- 5.9 External resources
  - 5.9.1 The 'externalResourcesRequired' attribute
  - 5.9.2 Progressive rendering
  - 5.9.3 The 'prefetch' element
- 5.10 Common attributes
  - 5.10.1 Attributes common to all elements: 'id', 'xml:id', 'xml:base', 'class', 'role', 'rel', 'rev', 'about', 'content', 'datatype', 'property', 'resource', and 'typeof'
  - 5.10.2 Attributes for character-content elements: 'xml:lang' and 'xml:space'
6 Styling
- 6.1 SVG's styling properties
- 6.2 Usage scenarios for styling
- 6.3 Specifying properties using the presentation attributes
- 6.4 Styling with XSL
- 6.5 Case sensitivity of property names and values
- 6.6 Facilities from CSS and XSL used by SVG
- 6.7 Property inheritance and computation
7 Coordinate Systems, Transformations and Units
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The initial viewport
- 7.3 The initial coordinate system
- 7.4 Coordinate system transformations
- 7.5 Nested transformations
- 7.6 The 'transform' attribute
  - 7.6.1 The TransformList value
- 7.7 Constrained transformations
  - 7.7.1 The user transform
  - 7.7.2 ViewBox to viewport transformation
  - 7.7.3 Element transform stack
  - 7.7.4 The current transformation matrix
  - 7.7.5 The TransformRef value
- 7.8 The 'viewBox' attribute
- 7.9 The 'preserveAspectRatio' attribute
- 7.10 Establishing a new viewport
- 7.11 Units
- 7.12 Object bounding box units
- 7.13 Intrinsic sizing properties of the viewport of SVG content
- 7.14 Geographic coordinate systems
- 7.15 The 'svg:transform' attribute
8 Paths
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The 'path' element
  - 8.2.1 Animating path data
- 8.3 Path data
  - 8.3.1 General information about path data
  - 8.3.2 The "moveto" commands
  - 8.3.3 The "closepath" command
  - 8.3.4 The "lineto" commands
  - 8.3.5 The Curve commands
  - 8.3.6 The Cubic Bézier curve commands
  - 8.3.7 The Quadratic Bézier curve commands
  - 8.3.8 The grammar for path data
- 8.4 Distance along a path
9 Basic Shapes
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 The 'rect' element
- 9.3 The 'circle' element
- 9.4 The 'ellipse' element
- 9.5 The 'line' element
- 9.6 The 'polyline' element
- 9.7 The 'polygon' element
  - 9.7.1 The grammar for points specifications in 'polyline' and 'polygon' elements
10 Text
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Characters and their corresponding glyphs
- 10.3 Fonts, font tables and baselines
- 10.4 The 'text' element
- 10.5 The 'tspan' element
- 10.6 Text layout
  - 10.6.1 Text layout introduction
  - 10.6.2 Relationship with bidirectionality
- 10.7 Text rendering order
- 10.8 Alignment properties
  - 10.8.1 Text alignment properties
- 10.9 Font selection properties
- 10.10 White space handling
- 10.11 Text in an area
  - 10.11.1 Introduction to text in an area
  - 10.11.2 The 'textArea' element
  - 10.11.3 The 'tbreak' element
  - 10.11.4 The 'line-increment' property
  - 10.11.5 The 'text-align' property
  - 10.11.6 The 'display-align' property
  - 10.11.7 Text in an area layout rules
- 10.12 Editable text fields
  - 10.12.1 The 'editable' attribute
- 10.13 Text selection and clipboard operations
11 Painting: Filling, Stroking, Colors and Paint Servers
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Specifying paint
- 11.3 Fill Properties
- 11.4 Stroke Properties
- 11.5 Non-Scaling Stroke
- 11.6 Simple alpha compositing
  - 11.6.1 Compositing the currentColor value
- 11.7 The 'viewport-fill' Property
- 11.8 The 'viewport-fill-opacity' Property
- 11.9 Controlling visibility and rendering
- 11.10 Rendering hints
  - 11.10.1 The 'color-rendering' property
  - 11.10.2 The 'shape-rendering' property
  - 11.10.3 The 'text-rendering' property
  - 11.10.4 The 'image-rendering' property
  - 11.10.5 The 'buffered-rendering' property
- 11.11 Inheritance of painting properties
- 11.12 Object and group opacity: the 'opacity' property
- 11.13 Color
  - 11.13.1 Syntax for color values
  - 11.13.2 HTML Color keywords
- 11.14 Paint servers
  - 11.14.1 System Paint Servers
  - 11.14.2 The 'solidColor' element
  - 11.14.3 The 'color' property
- 11.15 Gradients
  - 11.15.1 Linear gradients
  - 11.15.2 Radial gradients
  - 11.15.3 Defining gradient stops: the 'stop' element
12 Multimedia
- 12.1 Media elements
  - 12.1.1 Media timeline and document timeline
  - 12.1.2 Media availability
  - 12.1.3 Platform limits
  - 12.1.4 Audio mixing for 'audio' and 'video' elements
- 12.2 The 'audio' element
- 12.3 The 'video' element
  - 12.3.1 Restricting the transformation of the 'video' element
  - 12.3.2 Restricting compositing of the 'video' element
  - 12.3.3 Examples
- 12.4 The 'animation' element
- 12.5 The 'audio-level' property
- 12.6 Attributes for runtime synchronization
- 12.7 The 'initialVisibility' attribute
13 Interactivity
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Complete list of supported events
- 13.3 User interface events
- 13.4 Pointer events
- 13.5 Text events
- 13.6 Key events
- 13.7 Event flow
- 13.8 Event dispatching
- 13.9 Processing order for user interface events
- 13.10 The 'pointer-events' property
- 13.11 Magnification and panning
- 13.12 Element focus
  - 13.12.1 The 'focusable' attribute
- 13.13 Navigation
  - 13.13.1 Navigation behavior
  - 13.13.2 Specifying navigation
  - 13.13.3 Specifying focus highlighting
  - 13.13.4 Obtaining and listening to focus programmatically
14 Linking
- 14.1 References
  - 14.1.1 Overview
  - 14.1.2 IRIs and URIs
  - 14.1.3 Syntactic forms: IRI and FuncIRI
  - 14.1.4 Reference restrictions
  - 14.1.5 IRI reference attributes
  - 14.1.6 Externally referenced documents
- 14.2 Links out of SVG content: the 'a' element
  - 14.2.1 Indicating links
- 14.3 Linking into SVG content: IRI fragments and SVG views
  - 14.3.1 Introduction: IRI fragments and SVG views
  - 14.3.2 SVG fragment identifiers
15 Scripting
- 15.1 Specifying the scripting language
  - 15.1.1 Specifying the default scripting language
  - 15.1.2 Local declaration of a scripting language
- 15.2 The 'script' element
  - 15.2.1 Script processing
- 15.3 XML Events
- 15.4 The 'listener' element
- 15.5 The 'handler' element
  - 15.5.1 Parameters to 'handler' elements
- 15.6 Event handling
- 15.7 Processing inline executable content
16 Animation
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Animation elements
  - 16.2.1 Overview
  - 16.2.2 Relationship to SMIL 2.1 Animation
  - 16.2.3 Animation elements example
  - 16.2.4 Attributes to identify the target element for an animation
  - 16.2.5 Attributes to identify the target attribute or property for an animation
  - 16.2.6 Animation with namespaces
  - 16.2.7 Paced animation and complex types
  - 16.2.8 Attributes to control the timing of the animation
  - 16.2.9 Attributes that define animation values over time
  - 16.2.10 Attributes that control whether animations are additive
  - 16.2.11 Inheritance
  - 16.2.12 The 'animate' element
  - 16.2.13 The 'set' element
  - 16.2.14 The 'animateMotion' element
  - 16.2.15 The 'mpath' element
  - 16.2.16 The 'animateColor' element
  - 16.2.17 The 'animateTransform' element
  - 16.2.18 Attributes and properties that can be animated
- 16.3 Animation using the SVG DOM
- 16.4 Animation and the bounding box
17 Fonts
- 17.1 Introduction
  - 17.1.1 Describing fonts available to SVG
  - 17.1.2 Defining fonts in SVG
- 17.2 Overview of SVG fonts
- 17.3 The 'font' element
- 17.4 The 'glyph' element
- 17.5 The 'missing-glyph' element
- 17.6 Glyph selection rules
- 17.7 The 'hkern' element
- 17.8 Describing a font
  - 17.8.1 Overview of font descriptions
  - 17.8.2 The 'font-face' element
  - 17.8.3 The 'font-face-src' element
  - 17.8.4 The 'font-face-uri' element
18 Metadata
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 The 'metadata' element
- 18.3 An example
- 18.4 Extensible metadata attributes
19 Extensibility
- 19.1 Foreign namespaces and private data
- 19.2 Embedding foreign object types
  - 19.2.1 The 'foreignObject' element
- 19.3 An example
Appendix A The SVG Micro DOM (uDOM)
- A.1 Introduction
- A.2 Overview of the SVG uDOM
  - A.2.1 Document access
  - A.2.2 Tree navigation
  - A.2.3 Element creation
  - A.2.4 Element insertion
  - A.2.5 Element removal
  - A.2.6 Attribute and property access
  - A.2.7 Event listener registration and removal
  - A.2.8 Animation
  - A.2.9 Java package naming
- A.3 Conforming to the SVG uDOM
  - A.3.1 Float values
  - A.3.2 Attribute/property normalization
  - A.3.3 Text content access
- A.4 Module: dom
  - A.4.1 DOMException
  - A.4.2 Node
  - A.4.3 Element
  - A.4.4 Document
  - A.4.5 ElementTraversal
  - A.4.6 Window
- A.5 Module: views
  - A.5.1 AbstractView
  - A.5.2 DocumentView
- A.6 Module: events
  - A.6.1 EventTarget
  - A.6.2 EventListener
  - A.6.3 Event
  - A.6.4 MouseEvent
  - A.6.5 MouseWheelEvent
  - A.6.6 TextEvent
  - A.6.7 KeyboardEvent
  - A.6.8 UIEvent
  - A.6.9 ProgressEvent
- A.7 Module: smil
  - A.7.1 ElementTimeControl
  - A.7.2 TimeEvent
- A.8 Module: svg
  - A.8.1 SVGException
  - A.8.2 SVGDocument
  - A.8.3 SVGElementInstance
  - A.8.4 SVGSVGElement
  - A.8.5 SVGRGBColor
  - A.8.6 SVGRect
  - A.8.7 SVGPoint
  - A.8.8 SVGPath
  - A.8.9 SVGMatrix
  - A.8.10 SVGLocatable
  - A.8.11 SVGLocatableElement
  - A.8.12 TraitAccess
  - A.8.13 Additional accessing rules
  - A.8.14 SVGElement
  - A.8.15 SVGTimedElement
  - A.8.16 SVGAnimationElement
  - A.8.17 SVGVisualMediaElement
  - A.8.18 SVGTimer
  - A.8.19 SVGGlobal
  - A.8.20 AsyncStatusCallback
  - A.8.21 AsyncURLStatus
  - A.8.22 EventListenerInitializer2
Appendix B IDL Definitions
Appendix C Implementation Requirements
- C.1 Introduction
- C.2 Unsupported elements, attributes, properties, attribute values and property values
- C.3 Error processing
- C.4 Namespace, version, baseProfile, requiredFeatures and requiredExtensions
- C.5 Clamping of color and opacity Values
- C.6 'path' element implementation notes
- C.7 Text selection implementation notes
- C.8 Printing implementation notes
Appendix D Conformance Criteria
- D.1 Introduction
- D.2 Terminology
- D.3 SVG content conformance
  - D.3.1 Conforming SVG Document Fragments
  - D.3.2 Conforming SVG Stand-Alone Documents
  - D.3.3 Conforming SVG Included Document Fragments
  - D.3.4 Conditionally Conforming SVG Tiny 1.2 Document Fragments
- D.4 SVG writer conformance
  - D.4.1 Conforming SVG Generators
  - D.4.2 Conforming SVG Authoring Tools
  - D.4.3 Conforming SVG Servers
- D.5 SVG reader conformance
  - D.5.1 Conforming SVG Interpreters
  - D.5.2 Conforming SVG Viewers
- D.6 Extension conformance requirements
- D.7 Non-XML encoding conformance requirements
Appendix E Conformance to QA Framework Specification Guidelines
- E.1 Introduction
- E.2 Checklist table
- E.3 List of deprecated features
Appendix F Accessibility Support
- F.1 WAI accessibility guidelines
- F.2 SVG content accessibility guidelines
- F.3 SVG user agent accessibility guidelines
Appendix G Internationalization Support
- G.1 Introduction
- G.2 Internationalization and SVG
- G.3 SVG internationalization guidelines
Appendix H JPEG Support
- H.1 Introduction
- H.2 Required support
Appendix I Minimizing SVG File Sizes
Appendix J Feature Strings
- J.1 General feature strings
- J.2 Specific feature strings
Appendix K Element Table
Appendix L Attribute and Property Tables
- L.1 Property table
- L.2 Attribute table
Appendix M Media Type Registration for image/svg+xml
- M.1 Introduction
- M.2 Registration of media type image/svg+xml
Appendix N RelaxNG Schema for SVG Tiny 1.2
Appendix O ECMAScript Language Binding
- O.1 Module dom
- O.2 Module views
- O.3 Module events
- O.4 Module smil
- O.5 Module svg
- O.6 Sequences
Appendix P Java Language Binding
- P.1 Package org.w3c.dom
- P.2 Package org.w3c.dom.views
- P.3 Package org.w3c.dom.events
- P.4 Package org.w3c.dom.smil
- P.5 Package org.w3c.dom.svg
Appendix Q Perl Language Binding
- Q.1 Module dom
- Q.2 Module views
- Q.3 Module events
- Q.4 Module smil
- Q.5 Module svg
Appendix R Python Language Binding
- R.1 Module dom
- R.2 Module views
- R.3 Module events
- R.4 Module smil
- R.5 Module svg
Appendix S References
- S.1 Normative references
- S.2 Informative references
Appendix T Change History
- T.1 Changes over the whole document
- T.2 1 Introduction
- T.3 2 Concepts
- T.4 3 Rendering Model
- T.5 4 Basic Data Types and Color Keywords
- T.6 5 Document Structure
- T.7 6 Styling
- T.8 7 Coordinate Systems, Transformations and Units
- T.9 8 Paths
- T.10 9 Basic Shapes
- T.11 10 Text
- T.12 11 Painting: Filling, Stroking, Colors and Paint Servers
- T.13 12 Multimedia
- T.14 13 Interactivity
- T.15 14 Linking
- T.16 15 Scripting
- T.17 16 Animation
- T.18 17 Fonts
- T.19 18 Metadata
- T.20 19 Extensibility
- T.21 Appendix A The SVG Micro DOM (uDOM)
- T.22 Appendix B IDL Definitions
- T.23 Appendix C Implementation Requirements
- T.24 Appendix D Conformance Criteria
- T.25 Appendix E Conformance to QA Framework Specification Guidelines
- T.26 Appendix F Accessibility Support
- T.27 Appendix G Internationalization Support
- T.28 Appendix H JPEG Support
- T.29 Appendix I Minimizing SVG File Sizes
- T.30 Appendix J Feature Strings
- T.31 Appendix K Element Table
- T.32 Appendix L Attribute and Property Tables
- T.33 Appendix M Media Type Registration for image/svg+xml
- T.34 Appendix N RelaxNG Schema for SVG Tiny 1.2
- T.35 Appendix O References