<title>

Each container element or graphics element in an SVG drawing can supply a <title> element containing a description string where the description is text-only. When the current SVG document fragment is rendered as SVG on visual media, <title> element is not rendered as part of the graphics. However, some user agents may, for example, display the <title> element as a tooltip. Alternate presentations are possible, both visual and aural, which display the <title> element but do not display path elements or other graphics elements. The <title> element generally improve accessibility of SVG documents.

Generally <title> element should be the first child element of its parent. Note that those implementations that do use <title> to display a tooltip often will only do so if the <title> is indeed the first child element of its parent.

Usage context

Categories	Descriptive element
Permitted content	Any elements or character data

Attributes

Global attributes

• Core attributes
• class
• style

Specific attributes

There is no specific attributes

DOM Interface

This element implements the SVGTitleElement interface.

Example

<svg width="500" height="300" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <g>
    <title>SVG Title Demo example</title>
    <rect x="10" y="10" width="200" height="50"
    style="fill:none; stroke:blue; stroke-width:1px"/>
  </g>
</svg>

Specifications

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

Browser compatibility

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See also

• <desc>