stroke-dasharray

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the stroke-dasharray attribute controls the pattern of dashes and gaps used to stroke paths.

As a presentation attribute, it also can be used as a property directly inside a CSS stylesheet

Usage context

<dasharray>

It's a list of comma and/or white space separated <length>s and <percentage>s that specify the lengths of alternating dashes and gaps. If an odd number of values is provided, then the list of values is repeated to yield an even number of values. Thus, 5,3,2 is equivalent to 5,3,2,5,3,2.

Example

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<svg width="200" height="200" viewPort="0 0 200 300" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">

    <line stroke-dasharray="5, 5"              x1="10" y1="10" x2="190" y2="10" />
    <line stroke-dasharray="5, 10"             x1="10" y1="30" x2="190" y2="30" />
    <line stroke-dasharray="10, 5"             x1="10" y1="50" x2="190" y2="50" />
    <line stroke-dasharray="5, 1"              x1="10" y1="70" x2="190" y2="70" />
    <line stroke-dasharray="1, 5"              x1="10" y1="90" x2="190" y2="90" />
    <line stroke-dasharray="0.9"               x1="10" y1="110" x2="190" y2="110" />
    <line stroke-dasharray="15, 10, 5"         x1="10" y1="130" x2="190" y2="130" />
    <line stroke-dasharray="15, 10, 5, 10"     x1="10" y1="150" x2="190" y2="150" />
    <line stroke-dasharray="15, 10, 5, 10, 15" x1="10" y1="170" x2="190" y2="170" />
    <line stroke-dasharray="5, 5, 1, 5"        x1="10" y1="190" x2="190" y2="190" />

<style><![CDATA[
line{
    stroke: black;
    stroke-width: 2;
}
]]></style>
</svg>

Live sample

Elements

The following elements can use the stroke-dasharray attribute

• Shape elements »
• Text content elements »