Important SVG elements

To demonstrate each element, we'll use the following code as a starting point and then add each element inside the <svg> tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>
        <svg width=800 height=600>
        </svg>
    </body>
</html>

Let's now move on to each element. Note that you can write each tag in the form <element></element>, as we did with <circle></circle> previously, or the self-closing form, <element/>, which you will see next with <circle/>.

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