How do I have an SVG image inherit colors from the HTML document?

Question

I have a bunch of SVG images that I want to embed in an HTML page, which is styled with CSS.

I want to be able to have elements in the SVG have their color inherited from the parent HTML element's color attribute.

I tried setting style="stroke: none; fill: inherit" but this doesn't work.

Solution 1

HTML uses color whereas SVG uses fill and stroke. You can get fill or stroke to use the value of the color CSS property by using the value currentColor e.g. fill="currentColor"

Solution 2

You can use fill="currentColor".

<a href="#" style="color:red">
<svg fill="currentColor"> ...</svg>
</a>

Solution 3

Define the fill: of the whole SVG as currentColor in the CSS:

svg {
  fill: currentColor;
}

This makes the whole SVG to inherit the normal CSS color: of the surrounding element. Just make sure that all SVG child elements don't have any fill defined.

Comments

[Stan]

Take a look at SVG parameters: schepers.cc/w3c/svg/params/ref.html

[Erik Dahlström]

Your question isn't clear on how you embed the svg fragments. Sounds a bit like stackoverflow.com/questions/4906148/… though. Anyway, if your fragments are inline in the html, then styling like in your example should work fine.

[obskyr]

This doesn't work with embedded SVGs, though, does it?

[Robert Longson]

It does, but it isn't cross-document if that's what you mean.