title
Summary
The title element (<title>) provides a human readable name for container elements and graphics elements.
Overview Table
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>
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
- Scalable Vector Graphics: Document Structure, Section 5.11.6
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.
See also
Related pages
Attributions
Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]