Label on pie chart slice using textPath not displaying - svg

I'm writing an Amcharts plugin that puts a pie chart slice label on the slice's path. I do this by adding IDs to the slice <path>, moving the <text> in the label inside a <textPath> that references that <path>. The output looks correct but the text is not visible. It doesn't seem to be a browserism because several SVG validators do the same thing. Any idea why the <textPath> isn't being displayed?
I manipulate the chart data like so:
var chart = event.chart;
var div = chart.div;
var divId = div.id;
var chartData = chart.chartData;
chart.container.container.setAttribute("xmlns","http://www.w3.org/2000/svg");
chart.container.container.setAttribute("xmlns:xlink","http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink");
for(var i = 0; i < chartData.length; i++) {
if(chartData[i].dataContext.wrapLabel) {
/**
* Create an ID for the <path> that the label will wrap onto
*/
chartData[i].wedge.node.firstChild.setAttribute("id",divId + "-" + i);
// create the textPath element and set its href to the id we added to the path
var n = document.createElement('textPath');
n.setAttribute("xlink:href","#" + divId + "-" + i);
// Now move all of the tspan nodes underneath the textPath node
while(chartData[i].label.node.hasChildNodes()) {
n.appendChild(chartData[i].label.node.firstChild);
}
// and then append the textPath node to the <text> node
chartData[i].label.node.appendChild(n);
}
}
This produces the following SVG:
<svg version="1.1" style="position: absolute; width: 1000px; height: 1000px; top: -0.457382px; left: -0.002841px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<g opacity="1" aria-label=": 24.38% 84 " visibility="visible" transform="translate(0,0)">
<path cs="1000,1000" d=" M450.03754782613004,498.06263767618003 L375.0938695653251,495.1565941904501 A125,125,0,0,1,499.99999999999994,375 L500,450 A50,50,0,0,0,450.03754782613004,498.06263767618003 Z" fill="#741010" stroke="#000" stroke-width="2" stroke-opacity="1" fill-opacity="1" id="chart2-0"></path>
</g>
<g visibility="visible" transform="translate(0,0)" opacity="1">
<text y="5" fill="#fff" font-family="Verdana" font-size="9px" opacity="1" text-anchor="middle" transform="translate(552,554)" style="cursor: default;" visibility="visible">
<textpath xlink:href="#chart2-0">
<tspan y="5" x="0">$260.5B</tspan>
<tspan y="16" x="0">Satellite</tspan>
<tspan y="27" x="0">Industry</tspan>
</textpath>
</text>
</g>
</svg>
(Edited down for brevity.)

You'd be wanting
n.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink", "xlink:href","#" + divId + "-" + i);
because you can only set attributes in the null namespace with setAttribute.
Nor can you set a namespace with setAttribute so I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with
chart.container.container.setAttribute("xmlns","http://www.w3.org/2000/svg");
chart.container.container.setAttribute("xmlns:xlink","http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink");
The fact that the textPath element is entirely lower case in the output suggests that something has gone wrong in its creation. Either you incorrectly wrote it in lower case or you've created it (and possibly all your other elements) in the wrong namespace.
See the MDN article for more details about namespaces.

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Better way to add dashed border to a path element in an svg [duplicate]

This question already has an answer here:
Declaratively stroke a line with a composite line symbol using SVG
(1 answer)
Closed 7 months ago.
Is there a better solution to add to a path element a dashed border (lets say the border should have an offset of 2px in each direction)
I am looking for a general solution for a lot of path elements
For example my initial path element would be
<path stroke="black" fill="none" d="M10 10 L 50 10 L 50 80 L 10 80 Z"></path>
and at the moment I am creating another path element to add the border around the initial path element
<path stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="3" fill="none" d="M6 6 L 54 6 L 54 84 L 6 84 Z"></path>
<svg height="1000" width="1000">
<path stroke="black" fill="none"
d="M10 10 L 50 10 L 50 80 L 10 80 Z"></path>
<path stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="3"
fill="none" d="M6 6 L 54 6 L 54 84 L 6 84 Z"></path>
</svg>
"a general solution for a lot of path elements" is pretty vague. I'll handle simple closed paths in this answer.
This way may actually be more of an example how not to do it, but I think it shows a general problem with what you try to achieve. It uses only one place to define a path, and then re-uses it in three other places:
first, to draw the inner border,
then, to draw a much wider dashed border,
and finally, as a mask to hide that part of the dashed border that would otherwise overlap the inner one.
This has the advantage of not having to create extra paths, but the dashed border looks strange. The corners either show gaps or exta-long dashes, and in curved sections the length of the dashes are differing.
.distance {
stroke-width: 6;
}
.inner {
fill:none;
stroke: black;
stroke-width: 2;
}
.outer {
stroke: black;
stroke-width: 10;
stroke-dasharray: 4;
stroke-dashoffset: 2;
}
<svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" width="200" height="200">
<defs>
<path id="src" d="M 32,13 20,42 Q 30,90 85,90 L 92,53 Q 60,53 60,13 Z" />
<mask id="mask">
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="white" />
<use class="distance" href="#src" stroke="black" />
</mask>
</defs>
<use class="inner" href="#src" />
<use class="outer" href="#src" mask="url(#mask)" />
</svg>
Why is that so? The dashes are computed in relation to where the original path is, but what is shown is only the outer fringe of the whole stroke, at an offset. (or to put it the other way round, the path defining where dashes start and end is at an offset from the middle of the shown dashed line.) For concave sections, dashes get longer, and for convex sections, shorter.
The only way the dash length can be stable is when the path used to compute dashes sits in the middle of the dashes. You could change the order around and define the dashes on the inner border:
.distance {
stroke-width: 6;
}
.inner {
fill:none;
stroke: black;
stroke-width: 2;
stroke-dasharray: 4;
}
.outer {
stroke: black;
stroke-width: 10;
}
<svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" width="200" height="200">
<defs>
<path id="src" d="M 32,13 20,42 Q 30,90 85,90 L 92,53 Q 60,53 60,13 Z" />
<mask id="mask">
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="white" />
<use class="distance" href="#src" stroke="black" />
</mask>
</defs>
<use class="inner" href="#src" />
<use class="outer" href="#src" mask="url(#mask)" />
</svg>
..but that is as far as you get. The bottom line remains: you need to have a path where the dashed line is, not at an offset.
Use a native JavaScript Web Component <svg-outline> (you define once)
to do the work on an <svg>
<svg-outline>
<svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" height="180">
<path outline="blue" fill="none" d="M5 5 L 50 30 L 50 40 L 10 80 Z"/>
</svg>
</svg-outline>
The Web Component clones your original shapes (marked with "outline" attribute)
sets a stroke and stroke-dasharray on it
removes any existing fill
transforms clone
translates clone to account for scale(1.2)
scales clone to 1.2 size
then corrects translate
SO snippet output:
See JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/WebComponents/2goahcqv/
<svg-outline>
<style> circle[outline] { stroke: blue } </style>
<svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" height="180">
<rect outline="green" x="15" y="15" width="50%" height="50%" stroke="blue" fill="teal"/>
<circle outline fill="lightcoral" cx="50" cy="50" r="10"/>
</svg>
</svg-outline>
<svg-outline>
<svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" height="180">
<path outline="blue" fill="pink" d="M15 10 L 50 30 L 50 40 L 20 70 Z"/>
</svg>
</svg-outline>
<script>
customElements.define("svg-outline", class extends HTMLElement {
connectedCallback() {
setTimeout(() => { // make sure innerHTML is parsed
let svg = this.querySelector("svg");
svg.querySelectorAll('[outline]').forEach(original => {
let outlined = svg.appendChild(original.cloneNode(true));
original.after(outlined); // so we don't create "z-index" issues
let outline_stroke = outlined.getAttribute("outline") || false;
if (outline_stroke) outlined.setAttribute("stroke", outline_stroke );
original.removeAttribute("outline"); // so we can use CSS on outlines
let {x,y,width,height} = original.getBBox();
let cx = x + width/2;
let cy = y + height/2;
outlined.setAttribute("fill", "none"); // outlines never filled
outlined.setAttribute("stroke-dasharray", 3); // or read from your own attribute, like "outline"
outlined.setAttribute("transform", `translate(${cx} ${cy}) scale(${1.2}) translate(-${cx} -${cy})`);
});
// (optional) whack everything into shadowDOM so styles don't conflict
this.attachShadow({mode:"open"}).append(...this.children);
})
}
})
</script>

How to dynamically size an SVG pattern to the size of it's children?

I'm trying to create a text based SVG fill pattern that is dynamic (any text could be used).
I want the text to repeat horizontally and vertically, without having to define width/height of the text object in the pattern definition. This Answer provided a lot of info regarding patternUnits, but it wasn't enough to answer my specific question. The pattern seems to require either absolute width/height (doesn't work with dynamic content) or relative % values that are based on the SVG canvas.
Is it possible for a pattern definition to be sized dynamically to fit its children's bounding box (supporting arbitrary text), while using userSpaceOnUse for the pattern's children to set pixel values?
The usecase is consuming user-provided text, so predefined widths/sizes do not work; the solution needs to be agnostic to the text content.
svg{width:100%;height:100%;}
body{height: 100vh;}
body, html{padding:0;margin:0;}
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<defs>
<pattern id="GPattern" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
<text id="text" x="0" y="34" width="100%" height="100%"
style="font-family: Arial;
font-size : 34;
font-weight: 800;
stroke : #000000;
fill : #00ff00;
"
>This Text Should Be Dynamic</text>
</pattern>
</defs>
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="url(#GPattern)"/>
</svg>
Goal Output:
Right now the solution I am considering would be to use JS to calculate an absolute width based on content string.length and manually edit the pattern's width attribute, but would prefer if SVG can calculate this automagically.
Leveraging the answer in https://stackoverflow.com/a/13873631/1577447, you can use Javascript to adjust the size of your pattern.
You can trigger adjustPatternSize() every time your code changes. I’ve baked in the default values in case you want to run this in a context where JS isn’t available.
svg{width:100%;height:100%;}
body{height: 100vh;}
body, html{padding:0;margin:0;}
input { position: absolute; left: 10%; bottom: 10%; }
<input id="textInput" type="text" value="This Text Is Dynamic">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<defs>
<pattern id="GPattern" x="-4" y="-1" width="483" height="46" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
<text id="text" x="0" y="34" width="100%" height="100%"
style="font-family: Arial;
font-size : 34;
font-weight: 800;
stroke : #000000;
fill : #00ff00;
"
></text>
</pattern>
</defs>
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="url(#GPattern)"/>
<script type="text/javascript">
const padding = 4
const text = document.getElementById("text");
const rect = document.getElementById("GPattern");
const input = document.getElementById("textInput");
input.oninput = handleInput;
function handleInput(e) {
adjustPatternSize(e.target.value)
}
function adjustPatternSize(string) {
text.textContent = string;
const bbox = text.getBBox();
rect.setAttribute("x",bbox.x - padding);
rect.setAttribute("y",bbox.y - padding );
rect.setAttribute("width",bbox.width + 2*padding);
rect.setAttribute("height",bbox.height + 2*padding);
}
adjustPatternSize("This Text Is Dynamic");
</script>
</svg>

SVG - create path for textpath dynamically?

I want to have a curved text along a path (half circle) in SVG. I have followed this tutorial, which is great: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/svg/curved-text-along-path/
The problem is that the path presented there works only for this specific text - Dangerous Curves Ahead. If you leave only Dangerous word that's what happens: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/pqqVGa - it no longer works (the text is no more evenly spreaded across the path).
I want to have it work regardless of text length. How to achieve that?
Using the attributes lengthAdjust and textLength you can adjust the length of the text and the height of the letters, thereby placing the text of the desired length on a segment of a fixed length
<svg id="svg1" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="500" height="300" viewBox="0 0 500 300">
<path id="path1" fill="none" stroke="black" d="M30,151 Q215,21 443,152 " />
<text id="txt1" lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs" textLength="400" font-size="24">
<textPath id="result" method="align" spacing="auto" startOffset="1%" xlink:href="#path1">
<tspan dy="-10"> very long text very long text very long text </tspan>
</textPath>
</text>
</svg>
Using the attribute startOffset =" 10% " you can adjust the position of the first character of the phrase
<svg id="svg1" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="500" height="300" viewBox="0 0 500 300" >
<path id="path1" fill="none" stroke="black" d="M30,151 Q215,21 443,152 " />
<text id="txt1" lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs" textLength="400" font-size="24">
<textPath id="result" method="align" spacing="auto" startOffset="15%" xlink:href="#path1">
<tspan dy="-10"> very long text very long text very long text </tspan>
</textPath>
</text>
</svg>
and make animation using this attribute (click canvas)
<svg id="svg1" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="500" height="300" viewBox="0 0 500 300">
<path id="path1" fill="none" stroke="black" d="M30,151 Q215,21 443,152 " />
<text id="txt1" lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs" textLength="200" font-size="24">
<textPath id="result" method="align" spacing="auto" startOffset="-100%" xlink:href="#path1">
<tspan dy="-10"> Very long text Very long text Very long text </tspan>
<animate
begin="svg1.click"
dur="15s"
attributeName="startOffset"
values="-100%;1%;1%;100%;1%;1%;-100%"
repeatCount="5"/>
</textPath>
</text>
<text x="200" y="150" font-size="24" fill="orange" >Click me </text>
</svg>
This is assuming that the initial text size (35) is too small.
let curveLength = curve.getTotalLength();
let fs = 35;//the initial font size
test.setAttributeNS(null, "style", `font-size:${fs}px`)
while(test.getComputedTextLength() < curveLength){
fs++
test.setAttributeNS(null, "style", `font-size:${fs}px`)
}
body {
background-color: #333;
}
text {
fill: #FF9800;
}
<svg viewBox="0 0 500 500">
<path id="curve" d="M73.2,148.6c4-6.1,65.5-96.8,178.6-95.6c111.3,1.2,170.8,90.3,175.1,97" />
<text id="test">
<textPath xlink:href="#curve">
Dangerous
</textPath>
</text>
</svg>
UPDATE
The OP is commenting:
Thanks for the response. Instead of adjusting the font size, I would prefer to create a new path that is longer / smaller and matches the text width. Not sure how to do this tho. – feerlay
Please read the comments in the code. In base of the length of the text I'm calculating the new path, but I'm assuming a lot of things: I'm assuming the new path starts in the same point as the old one.
let textLength = test.getComputedTextLength();
// the center of the black circle
let c = {x:250,y:266}
// radius of the black circle
let r = 211;
// the black arc starts at point p1
let p1 = {x:73.2,y:150}
// the black arc ends at point p2
let p2 = {x:426.8,y:150}
// distance between p1 and p2
let d = dist(p1, p2);
// the angle of the are begining at p1 and ending at p2
let angle = Math.asin(.5*d/r);
// the radius of the new circle
let newR = textLength / angle;
// the distance between p1 and the new p2
let newD = 2 * Math.sin(angle/2) * newR;
// the new attribute c for the path #curve
let D = `M${p1.x},${p1.y} A`
D += `${newR}, ${newR} 0 0 1 ${p1.x + newD},${p1.y} `
document.querySelector("#curve").setAttributeNS(null,"d",D);
// a function to calculate the distance between two points
function dist(p1, p2) {
let dx = p2.x - p1.x;
let dy = p2.y - p1.y;
return Math.sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy);
}
body {
background-color: #333;
}
text {
fill: #FF9800;
};
<svg viewBox="0 0 500 500">
<path id="black_circle" d="M73.2,148.6c4-6.1,65.5-96.8,178.6-95.6c111.3,1.2,170.8,90.3,175.1,97" />
<path id ="curve" d="M73.2,150 A 211,211 0 0 1 426.8,150" fill="#777" />
<text id="test">
<textPath xlink:href="#curve">
Dangerous curves
</textPath>
</text>
</svg>

How can I translate SVG group element to the center of the root SVG?

Question: How can I translate the center of a SVG group element to the center of the root SVG. I tried to use transform="translate(x,y)" on the <g> element, but this transformation will only translate with respect to the top left corner of the group element.
Example case and goal: In the following SVG, the two rectangles <rect> are grouped together with <g>. Assume we don't know the position, size, and which types are elements are inside the group. We only know the width/height of the parent SVG. Goal is to translate the center of the group (bounding box of the two rectangles) to the center of the root SVG. The issue is that we don't know the height/width of the "bounding box" which is the group itself, thus when using transform="translate(x,y)" alone won't get us to the center of the root SVG.
<svg width="500px" height="300px" preserveAspectRatio="none" viewBox="0,0,5.0,3.0">
<g transform="translate(0,0)">
<rect x="1" y="0.25" width="0.5" height="0.5" fill="green" />
<rect x="1.25" y="1" width="0.5" height="0.5" fill="red" />
</g>
</svg>
Requirements:
The solution can only use pure SVG. CSS or external libraries can NOT be used.
Using Python to do basic calculation is okay. However, remember we don't what elements are inside the <g>.
The coordinate system for the root SVG (viewBox, width, height) must not be change because in example use case, these coordinate system are used for conversion of real world spatial units (ex: millimeters) to pixels for the end application.
You need some way to do calculations. I'm using Javascript:
const SVG_NS = 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg';
const svg = document.querySelector("svg");
// the viewBox of the svg element splited
let svgVB = svg.getAttribute("viewBox").split(/[ ,]+/);
let o = test.getBBox();
let oCenter = {};//the center of the g#test element
oCenter.x = o.x + o.width/2;
oCenter.y = o.y + o.height/2;
// the valuefor the transform attribute
let tr = `
translate(${-oCenter.x},${-oCenter.y})
translate(${svgVB[2]/2},${svgVB[3]/2})`;
test.setAttributeNS(null, "transform",tr);
// for debugging I'm drawing the bounding box
bbox.setAttributeNS(null, "transform",tr);
function drawRect(o, parent) {
let rect = document.createElementNS(SVG_NS, 'rect');
for (let name in o) {
rect.setAttributeNS(null, name, o[name]);
}
parent.appendChild(rect);
return rect;
}
drawRect(o, bbox);
svg{border:1px solid;}
<svg width="500px" height="300px" preserveAspectRatio="none" viewBox="0,0,5.0,3.0">
<g id="bbox"></g>
<g id="test" transform="translate(0 0)">
<rect x="1" y="0.25" width="0.5" height="0.5" fill="green" />
<rect x="1.95" y="1" width="0.5" height="0.5" fill="red" />
</g>
</svg>
I hope it helps

Can you control how an SVG's stroke-width is drawn?

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.

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