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<feDistantLight>

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨October 2018⁩.

The <feDistantLight> SVG filter primitive defines a distant light source that can be used within a lighting filter primitive: <feDiffuseLighting> or <feSpecularLighting>.

Like other filter primitives, it handles color components in the linearRGB color space by default. You can use color-interpolation-filters to use sRGB instead.

Usage context

Categories Light source element
Permitted content Any number of the following elements, in any order:
<animate>, <discard>, <set>

Attributes

DOM Interface

This element implements the SVGFEDistantLightElement interface.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
feDistantLight 5 ≤18 3 15 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
azimuth 5 79 3 15 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
elevation 5 79 3 15 6 18 4 14 6 1.0 4.4 6

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/Element/feDistantLight