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<feFlood>

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The <feFlood> SVG filter primitive fills the filter subregion with the color and opacity defined by flood-color and flood-opacity.

Usage context

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

Attributes

DOM Interface

This element implements the SVGFEFloodElement interface.

Example

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HTML

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="200" height="200">
  <defs>
    <filter id="floodFilter" filterUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
      <feFlood
        x="50"
        y="50"
        width="100"
        height="100"
        flood-color="green"
        flood-opacity="0.5" />
    </filter>
  </defs>

  <use filter="url(#floodFilter)" />
</svg>

Result

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
feFlood 5 12 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/feFlood