<font>

The font element defines a font to be used for text layout.

Usage context

Categories	Font element
Permitted content	Any number of the following elements, in any order: Descriptive elements <font-face>, <glyph>, <hkern>, <missing-glyph>, <vkern>

Example

Attributes

Global attributes

• Core attributes »
• Presentation attributes »
• class
• style
• externalResourcesRequired

Specific attributes

• horiz-origin-x
• horiz-origin-y
• horiz-adv-x
• vert-origin-x
• vert-origin-y
• vert-adv-y

DOM Interface

This element implements the SVGFontElement interface.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) The definition of '<font>' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

• Desktop
• Mobile

Feature	Chrome	Firefox (Gecko)	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
Basic support	?	?	?	?	?

Feature	Android	Firefox Mobile (Gecko)	IE Phone	Opera Mobile	Safari Mobile
Basic support	?	?	?	?	?

 

[1] See bug 119490

The chart is based on these sources.

See also

• <font-face>
• <glyph>
• <text>
• SVG tutorial: SVG fonts