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On the browser support front, the danger zones are IE 8 and down, Safari 5 and down, iOS 4.3 and down, and Android 2.3 and down. After selecting all the fonts you want, click the SVG button on the bottom and you’ll get that output, including a demo page with the inline SVG method. IcoMoon, which is known for producing icon fonts, actually does a fantastic job of producing SVG sprites as well. See the Pen EBHlD by Chris Coyier ( on CodePen. Here’s some styling possibilities and a demo of this all at work: The svg is (kinda) in the DOM, so JavaScript too.

SVG has even more things you can control, like special filters and strokes.

This technique one-ups that in that we do everything we could there, and more, because: One of the reasons we loved icon fonts is the ability to style them with CSS. } Yay: you can style them (and their parts) with CSS Make sure you use those class names on the svg to size it. Note that grunt-svgstore is now using so you don’t even need to use the viewBox! Although… there is more to this story because as I type these words, the theme this very site is using has the icons defined at the bottom of the document and it works. It’s gotta be at the top, sadly, as there is a Chrome bug in which this isn’t going to work if defined later. Like: Inject that SVG at the top of the document svg file) will be wrapped up in a tag with a unique, prefixed ID, and the file name (minus the. In the output file, svg-defs.svg, each icon (whatever paths and stuff from the source. Prefix : 'shape-', // This will prefix each ID Make sure the task is available with: grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-svgstore')

#SPRITE SCREEN WRAP INSTALL#

You can install it with: npm install grunt-svgstore -save-dev If you’ve never used Grunt, you can do it. Fabrice Weinberg has created a Grunt plugin called grunt-svgstore that automates this. Read all about it!Īgain you can do that by hand, but of course that’s a bit laborious. Turns out is probably a better choice than. Each tag will have a unique ID, and will wrap all the paths and whatnot for each icon. It should just be an tag, with a tag (which just means you are defining stuff to use later), and then a bunch of (group) tags. You don’t even have to look at the final file. You can let Illustrator (or whatever) save it however, with all the cruft that comes along for the ride: They can be colored, not colored, multiple shapes, sizes, whatever. That’s one of the cool things about working with SVG – they are the source files.

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However, I think assuming you’re good with IE 9+, using inline SVG and the element to reference an icon is a superior system.Ī nice way to handle your icons is to have a folder full of. Lots of sites really need a system for icons, and icon fonts offer a damn fine system.