"<svg>"

The root element of an SVG document.

• DOM object: SVGSVGElement
• SVG2 spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/struct.html#SVGElement

The <svg> element is the root element of an SVG document. It can contain any number of child elements, such as Elements: Basic Shapes, Elements: Painting, and Elements: Structural.

<svg width="300" height="300" style="background-color: white">
  <!-- ... -->
</svg>

Attribute	Default	Description
x	0	Top-left X coordinate of the SVG viewport.
y	0	Top-left Y coordinate of the SVG viewport.
width	0	Width of the SVG viewport.
height	0	Height of the SVG viewport.
viewBox	(none)	Rectangle in userspace that the SVG viewport is mapped to.
preserveAspectRatio	xMidYMid meet	How to scale the SVG viewport to fit the SVG content.
transform	(none)	Transformation matrix to apply to SVG content.