<g>

The <g> SVG element is a container used to group other SVG elements. Transformations applied to the <g> element are performed on all of its child elements, and any of its attributes are inherited by its child elements. It can also group multiple elements to be referenced later with the <use> element.

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>, <altGlyphDef>, <clipPath>, <color-profile>, <cursor>, <filter>, <font>, <font-face>, <foreignObject>, <image>, <marker>, <mask>, <pattern>, <script>, <style>, <switch>, <text>, <view>

Attributes

Global attributes

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

Specific attributes

None

DOM Interface

This element implements the SVGGElement interface.

Example

<svg viewBox="0 0 95 50"
     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
   <g stroke="green" fill="white" stroke-width="5">
     <circle cx="25" cy="25" r="15"/>
     <circle cx="40" cy="25" r="15"/>
     <circle cx="55" cy="25" r="15"/>
     <circle cx="70" cy="25" r="15"/>
   </g>
</svg>

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 The definition of '<g>' in that specification.	Candidate Recommendation
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) The definition of '<g>' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

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