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Designing SVG Shapes6/20
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  • 1. Fills
  • 2. Fill Opacity
  • 3. No Fill
  • 4. Challenge: Colorful Squares
  • 5. Strokes
  • 6. Stroke Width
  • 7. Stroke Opacity
  • 8. Challenge: Stroke Width and Transparency
  • 9. Line Ends
  • 10. Bend Type
  • 11. Challenge: Zigzags
  • 12. Dashed Lines, Part 1
  • 13. Dashed Lines, Part 2
  • 14. Challenge: Sunrise
  • 15. Life Saver, Part 1
  • 16. Life Saver, Part 2
  • 17. Life Saver, Part 3
  • 18. Life Saver, Part 4
  • 19. Stroke Offset
  • 20. Challenge: Lollypop
Stroke Opacity
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Stroke Width

For a single-pixel stroke, all we need to do is set the color in stroke. If you need to control the width of the stroke, then you can do this using the stroke-widthproperty, an attribute, or via CSS:

<circle r="60" cx="150" cy="50%" fill="none" stroke="orange"
stroke-width="5"></circle>

or:

circle {
  stroke: orange;
  stroke-width: 5;
}

Result:

There is no shorthand notation, so the color and thickness are always set separately.

If you set the value as a percentage, it will not be calculated relative to the size of the shape, but to the size of the entire SVG, which can lead to unpredictable results.

If a stroke is assigned a particular width but no color, then the stroke will not be displayed.

Comments

  • object.svg
  • style.css
SVG
<svg width="300" height="150"> <circle r="60" cx="75" cy="50%" fill="gold" stroke="darkorange"></circle> <circle class="shape-stroke-width" r="60" cx="225" cy="50%"></circle> </svg>
CSS
svg { border: 1px solid #dddddd; } .shape-stroke-width { fill: lightseagreen; stroke: teal; }

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    1. Assign the first shape a stroke width using the stroke-width="3" attribute.
    2. Assign the second shape a stroke width of stroke-width: 5% using CSS.

    Note that, unlike HTML, the frame does not affect the position of the shape in space or its dimensions.

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