SVG text offers the best of both worlds. It’s rendered like other graphic elements so you can do things like add strokes and fills that you can add to shapes, lines, and arrowheads. It’s also packaged as XML character data, which means it’s real text.
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How To Manipulate SVG Text
Last week I showed you how to create SVG text using the <text> element. In the examples I added x and y coordinates to position the text and the individual characters in a string of SVG text. There’s more to the <text> element.
How To Style and Position SVG Text With The tspan Element
The SVG text element allows you to easily position and style text, but what do you do if you want to position and style different parts of the text differently? Do you need to create multiple text elements? Nope. There’s an easier way.
How To Reuse SVG Text With The tref Element
Writing SVG code once and being able to use it in multiple places helps you write more modular code and it helps make maintenance easier. SVG makes it easy to reuse text through the tref element.
SVG Text Layout And Alignment
At the start of this series on SVG text I mentioned font tables. I said that certain alignment details for rendering a font’s glyphs were contained inside those tables. I also mentioned at some point in the series we’d see how we could alter some of this information