<tspan>

The SVG <tspan> element defines a subtext within a <text> element or another <tspan> element. It allows for adjustment of the style and/or position of that subtext as needed.

Example

<svg viewBox="0 0 240 40" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <style>
    text {
      font: italic 12px serif;
    }
    tspan {
      font: bold 10px sans-serif;
      fill: red;
    }
  </style>

  <text x="10" y="30" class="small">
    You are
    <tspan>not</tspan>
    a banana!
  </text>
</svg>

Attributes

x: The x coordinate of the starting point of the text baseline. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
y: The y coordinate of the starting point of the text baseline. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
dx: Shifts the text position horizontally from a previous text element. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
dy: Shifts the text position vertically from a previous text element. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
rotate: Rotates orientation of each individual glyph. Can rotate glyphs individually. Value type: <list-of-number> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
lengthAdjust: How the text is stretched or compressed to fit the width defined by the textLength attribute. Value type: spacing|spacingAndGlyphs; Default value: spacing; Animatable: yes
textLength: A width that the text should be scaled to fit. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes

Global attributes

Core Attributes: Most notably: id, tabindex
Styling Attributes: class, style
Conditional Processing Attributes: Most notably: requiredExtensions, systemLanguage
Event Attributes: Global event attributes, Graphical event attributes
Presentation Attributes: Most notably: clip-path, clip-rule, color, color-interpolation, color-rendering, cursor, display, dominant-baseline, fill, fill-opacity, fill-rule, filter, mask, opacity, pointer-events, shape-rendering, stroke, stroke-dasharray, stroke-dashoffset, stroke-linecap, stroke-linejoin, stroke-miterlimit, stroke-opacity, stroke-width, text-anchor, vector-effect, visibility
Aria Attributes: aria-activedescendant, aria-atomic, aria-autocomplete, aria-busy, aria-checked, aria-colcount, aria-colindex, aria-colspan, aria-controls, aria-current, aria-describedby, aria-details, aria-disabled, aria-dropeffect, aria-errormessage, aria-expanded, aria-flowto, aria-grabbed, aria-haspopup, aria-hidden, aria-invalid, aria-keyshortcuts, aria-label, aria-labelledby, aria-level, aria-live, aria-modal, aria-multiline, aria-multiselectable, aria-orientation, aria-owns, aria-placeholder, aria-posinset, aria-pressed, aria-readonly, aria-relevant, aria-required, aria-roledescription, aria-rowcount, aria-rowindex, aria-rowspan, aria-selected, aria-setsize, aria-sort, aria-valuemax, aria-valuemin, aria-valuenow, aria-valuetext, role

Usage notes

Categories	Text content element, Text content child element
Permitted content	Character data and any number of the following elements, in any order: Descriptive elements `<a>`, `<altGlyph>`, `<animate>`, `<set>`, `<tref>`, `<tspan>`

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # TextElement

Browser compatibility

	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	WebView Android	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet
`tspan`	1	12	1.5	9	9	3	3	Yes	4	Yes	3	Yes
`dx`	Yes	12	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
`dy`	Yes	12	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
`lengthAdjust`	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
`rotate`	Yes	≤79	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
`textLength`	Yes	12	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
`x`	Yes	12	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
`y`	Yes	12	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

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