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<tspan>

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.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

The <tspan> SVG element defines a subtext within a <text> element or another <tspan> element. It allows for adjustment of the style and/or position of that subtext as needed.

Note: The <tspan> element does not wrap by default, to make this happen it needs to be styled with the white-space CSS property.

Usage context

Categories	Text content element, Text content child element
Permitted content	Character data and any number of the following elements, in any order: Descriptive elements `<a>`, `<animate>`, `<discard>`, `<set>`, `<tspan>`

Attributes

x: The x coordinate of the starting point of the text baseline, or the x coordinate of each individual glyph if a list of values is provided. Value type: List of (<length> | <percentage>); Default value: 0; Animatable: yes
y: The y coordinate of the starting point of the text baseline, or the y coordinate of each individual glyph if a list of values is provided. Value type: List of (<length> | <percentage>); Default value: 0; Animatable: yes
dx: Shifts the text position horizontally from a previous text element, or shifts the position of each individual glyph if a list of values is provided. Value type: List of (<length> | <percentage>); Default value: none; Animatable: yes
dy: Shifts the text position vertically from a previous text element, or shifts the position of each individual glyph if a list of values is provided. Value type: List of (<length> | <percentage>); Default value: none; Animatable: yes
rotate: Rotates orientation of each individual glyph. Can rotate glyphs individually. Value type: <list-of-number>; Default value: none; Animatable: yes
lengthAdjust: How the text is stretched or compressed to fit the width defined by the textLength attribute. Value type: spacing | spacingAndGlyphs; Default value: spacing; Animatable: yes
textLength: A width that the text should be scaled to fit. Value type: <length> | <percentage>; Default value: none; Animatable: yes

DOM Interface

This element implements the SVGTSpanElement interface.

Example

<svg viewBox="0 0 240 40" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <style>
    text {
      font: italic 12px serif;
    }
    tspan {
      font: bold 10px sans-serif;
      fill: red;
    }
  </style>

  <text x="10" y="30" class="small">
    You are
    <tspan>not</tspan>
    a banana!
  </text>
</svg>

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2> # TextElement>

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
`tspan`	1	12	1.5	9	3	18	4	14	2	1.0	3	2
`dx`	1	12	1.5	15	3	18	4	14	2	1.0	4.4	2
`dy`	1	12	1.5	15	3	18	4	14	2	1.0	4.4	2
`fill`	1	79	1.5	15	3	18	4	14	2	1.0	4.4	2
`lengthAdjust`	1	79	No	15	3	18	No	14	2	1.0	4.4	2
`rotate`	1	79	1.5	15	3	18	4	14	2	1.0	4.4	2
`systemLanguage`	1	12	12	9	3	18	14	14	2	1.0	3	2
`textLength`	1	12	No	15	3	18	No	14	2	1.0	4.4	2
`x`	1	12	1.5	15	3	18	4	14	2	1.0	4.4	2
`y`	1	12	1.5	15	3	18	4	14	2	1.0	4.4	2