<g>
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<g>SVG element is a container used to group other SVG elements.
Transformations applied to the<g> element are performed on its child elements, and its attributes are inherited by its children. It can also group multiple elements to be referenced later with the<use> element.
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Usage context
| Categories | Container element, Structural element |
|---|---|
| Permitted content | Any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements Shape elements Structural elements Gradient elements <a>,<clipPath>,<filter>,<foreignObject>,<image>,<marker>,<mask>,<pattern>,<script>,<style>,<switch>,<text>,<view> |
Attributes
This element only includes global attributes.
DOM Interface
This element implements theSVGGElement interface.
Example
html,body,svg { height: 100%;}html
<svg viewBox="0 0 100 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <!-- Using g to inherit presentation attributes --> <g fill="white" stroke="green" stroke-width="5"> <circle cx="40" cy="40" r="25" /> <circle cx="60" cy="60" r="25" /> </g></svg>Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2> # GElement> |