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Summary

The title element (<title>) provides a human readable name for container elements and graphics elements.

Overview Table

DOM Interface
SVGElement

Examples

In the following code example, a title element is provided for an ellipse. When you hover over the ellipse, a tooltip may be displayed.



<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <svg width="400" height="400">
      <ellipse cx="150" cy="100" rx="100" ry="75" fill="greenyellow">
        <title>This is the title of an ellipse.</title>
      </ellipse>
    </svg>
  </body>
</html>
[View live example](http://code.webplatform.org/gist/3fe2120a26327b9b9b8e)

Notes

Remarks

Note: In addition to the attributes, properties, events, methods, and styles listed above, SVG elements also inherent core HTML attributes, properties, events, methods, and styles.

Each container element or graphics element in a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing can provide a desc or a title textual description. The title elements are not rendered as part of the graphics. Instead, they appear as a tooltip as the the pointer moves over particular elements in the drawing.

Standards information

Members

The SVGTitleElement object has these properties:

  • className: Gets the names of the classes that are assigned to this object.
  • focusable: Determines if an element can acquire keyboard focus (that is, receive keyboard events) and be a target for field-to-field navigation actions (such as when a user presses the Tab key).
  • ownerSVGElement: Gets the nearest ancestor svg element.
  • style: Gets a style object.
  • viewportElement: Gets the element that established the current viewport.
  • xmlbase: Gets or sets the base attribute on the element.
  • xmllang: Gets or sets a value that specifies the language that is used in the contents and attribute values of an element.
  • xmlspace: Gets or sets a value that indicates whether white space is preserved in character data.

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