<ellipse>

The ellipse element is an SVG basic shape, used to create ellipses based on a center coordinate, and both their x and y radius.

Ellipses are unable to specify the exact orientation of the ellipse (if, for example, you wanted to draw an ellipse tilted at a 45 degree angle), but can be rotated by using the transform attribute.

Usage context

Categories	Basic shape element, Graphics element, Shape element
Permitted content	Any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements

Attributes

Global attributes

• Conditional processing attributes »
• Core attributes »
• Graphical event attributes »
• Presentation attributes »
• class
• style
• externalResourcesRequired
• transform

Specific attributes

• cx
• cy
• rx
• ry

DOM Interface

This element implements the SVGEllipseElement interface.

Example

SVG

<svg width="120" height="120" viewBox="0 0 120 120"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">

  <ellipse cx="60" cy="60" rx="50" ry="25"/>
</svg>

Result

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 The definition of '<ellipse>' in that specification.	Candidate Recommendation	Added auto value for rx and ry
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) The definition of '<ellipse>' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

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See also

• <circle>