Each container element or graphics element in an SVG drawing can supply a <title> element containing a description string where the description is text-only. When the current SVG document fragment is rendered as SVG on visual media, <title> element is not rendered as part of the graphics. However, some user agents may, for example, display the <title> element as a tooltip. Alternate presentations are possible, both visual and aural, which display the <title> element but do not display path elements or other graphics elements. The <title> element generally improves accessibility of SVG documents.
Generally <title> element should be the first child element of its parent. Note that those implementations that do use <title> to display a tooltip often will only do so if the <title> is indeed the first child element of its parent.
| Categories | Descriptive element |
|---|---|
| Permitted content | Any elements or character data |
There is no specific attributes
This element implements the SVGTitleElement interface.
<svg width="500" height="300" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<g>
<title>SVG Title Demo example</title>
<rect x="10" y="10" width="200" height="50"
style="fill:wheat; stroke:blue; stroke-width:1px"/>
</g>
</svg>
| Specification | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 The definition of '<title>' in that specification. | Candidate Recommendation | |
| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) The definition of '<title>' in that specification. | Recommendation | Initial definition |
| Desktop | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | |
| Basic support | 1 | Yes | 1.5 | 9 | 8 | 3 |
| Tooltip display | ? | ? | 4 | ? | ? | ? |
| Mobile | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Android webview | Chrome for Android | Edge Mobile | Firefox for Android | Opera for Android | iOS Safari | Samsung Internet | |
| Basic support | 3 | Yes | Yes | 4 | Yes | 3 | ? |
| Tooltip display | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
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