Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Mastering SVG

You're reading from   Mastering SVG Ace web animations, visualizations, and vector graphics with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788626743
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Rob Larsen Rob Larsen
Author Profile Icon Rob Larsen
Rob Larsen
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Scalable Vector Graphics FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Authoring SVG 3. Digging Deeper with SVG Authoring 4. Using SVG in HTML 5. Working with SVG and CSS 6. JavaScript and SVG 7. Common JavaScript Libraries and SVG 8. SVG Animation and Visualizations 9. Helper Libraries Snap.svg and SVG.js 10. Working with D3.js 11. Tools to Optimize Your SVG 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

CSS background images


You've already seen examples of using CSS for background images all the way back in Chapter 1, Introducing Scalable Vector Graphics. This section will add some more details to using SVG in this way. 

 

In this initial, basic example, we add an SVG image of a stylized letter R as the background image of a div. One important aspect is setting the background-size property. The natural size of the SVG image is 458 by 392. In this case it's set to be half that size in order to fit into the size of the div:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>Mastering SVG- CSS Background Images</title>
        <style type="text/css">
          .logo{
            width: 229px;
            height: 196px;
            background: url(icon.svg);
            background-repeat: no-repeat;
            background-size: 229px 196px;
          }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
   ...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime