The <rect> Element

The SVG <rect> element, when rendered, causes a rectangle to be painted on the SVG canvas. When you drag out a rectangle using Jasc WebDraw or your favorite SVG-enabled vector drawing tool, you produce a simple SVG document that looks something like this:

Listing 3.1. (03WebDraw.svg)
 <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/PR-SVG-20010719/ DTD/svg10.dtd"> <svg width="500" height="500"> <rect x="192" y="93" width="142" height="78" rx="0" ry="0" style="stroke-miterlimit:4; stroke-linejoin:miter; stroke-width:3; stroke-opacity:1; stroke:rgb(0,204,255); fill-opacity:1;fill:rgb(204,204,204); opacity:1"/> </svg> <!-- Generated by Jasc WebDraw PR4(tm) on 04/03/01 ...

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