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HTML SVG Basics SVG and CSS Responsive SVGs

Posted by sarahmoore4
sarahmoore4
6,980 Points

Embedding SVGs, Web Optimization and Responsiveness

I was just wondering if it would actually be better practice to place your SVG in your html file via an image element and create multiple detailed and less detailed SVGs that you switch out with a media query based on the page's size. Would this be possible with Javascript?

I don't know if this would be a possibility - but I worry about performance optimization seeing 20+ lines of code just for one - typically not incredibly important - image file.

1 Answer

Alan Brown
Alan Brown
20,524 Points

You can now use the symbol tag in your svg. Embed that with an image tag and use css to style the svg and media queries to change the stroke widths etc responsively.