In XAML there is the concept of a [Border] object that behaves much like an SVG rectangle except that a XAML [Border] can contain a child element.
So I could create a [Border] with a black stroke and inside it have another border that had a white stroke and a fill of Green.
This gives the the look of a single rectangle with both a black border & then an inner white border.
How can you create this in SVG?
You need multiple paths. In this particular case you could 'cheat' by having the same path twice, with the lower path having a larger border that appears 'outside' the upper object; in general, though you will need to create paths with offsets if you want this behavior.
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I have a SVG-image map with many polygons, which are directly bordering and all have a white stroke. On hovering, that stroke should turn darkgrey and become wider. Easy CSS.
But my problem: As objects in SVG are rendered after one another, the wider stroke will not overlap the other object, but underlap it, which looks super ugly. Is there a way to make it overlap instead?
Thanks in advance,
snow
I have a rounded square texture, drawn in paint, with black border. How can I change only the inner color without changing the border color?
EDIT: I did it, but I want to ask if it can be done without using another texture? I also wonder if there is a connection between this and 9patch as in scaling. Can we use that or is there something like that?
You can tint whatever it is what you are drawing, using SpriteBatch. This means that color you specify is multiplied with the color of the image. For example if your image is a white rounded rectangle with a black border and you tint it using the color purple then the inside will be purple and the border will remain black. You didn't provide enough information to be more specific. But if you are for example using the Sprite class then you can use the setColor method to tint it. Likewise if you are using the Image class. If you are drawing the "texture" directly using SpriteBatch then you can use the setColor method of the SpriteBatch.
By default, the anchor for the text element in SVG is at the bottom left, but I want it to be at the top left, since I am also creating a rectangle to act as the background for the text, but it is displayed incorrectly since the text is higher than the rectangle (because rectangle anchor/offset is at the top left). Is there a way to fix this, so both text and rectangle can be drawn at same coordinates and be displayed in the same location.
The dominant-baseline property/attribute worked for me:
svg {
dominant-baseline: hanging;
}
The coordinates (x and y) you supply for text elements is used as the baseline of the text. This makes sense because if there is text with varying font sizes on the same line, you would want their baselines to line up.
There is no "automatic" way to do what you want. SVG elements are always absolutely positioned.
You will just have to move the text down a bit by making the y coordinate a bit larger.
Alternatively, you could add a dy attribute to shift the text down a bit. Or even use a transform attribute to do the same. But using either of those methods wouldn't really be simplifying the process for you.
I am trying to mimic the behavior of markers on white boards and was wondering if it I can do it with svg polylines. I know the stroke width can be set but can be it changed to vary depending on the velocity of the mouse which I can figure out or is it just a constant value for the stroke?
Or if you wanted to use SVG, instead of using a <polyline>, use a series of connected <line>s
You can't have multiple stroke widths in a single polyline element. I think canvas is probably a better fit for this task.
I'm working with SVG using the Raphael library. I can apply a fill colour to an object like so:
circle.attr({fill: "#ff0000"});
And this also works (though the Raphael documentation doesn't mention it):
circle.attr({fill: "url(pattern.png)"});
I am able to use transparent PNGs as fill patterns, and transparency works as expected. The svg object is completely transparent where the fill pattern image is transparent. But what I would like to do is specify both a fill pattern image and a fill colour, so that the colour would show through where the pattern image is transparent - similar to the 'background' property using CSS, for example. Is this possible with SVG?
You can define a pattern that has a rect with a fill, and an image that is your png on top of that rect. Then use the pattern as fill for the circle (or whatever element you want).
This means stepping outside of Raphaël, or extending it to do what you want. Note that what ({fill: "url(pattern.png)"}) does is to create a pattern element and and append an image element pointing to the given url. It's quite possible to hack Raphaël to allow you to pass a color too, and then you deal with that in the code that creates the pattern by creating a rect of the same dimensions as the image with the given fill color.
I should say that if you want it to work with IE<9 then you probably need to implement it in VML too.
Other options include drawing two shapes, one with color fill and the other with the raster image fill. Yet another is to make the png include the background color so that it's not transparent.