HTML5 and CSS3: Building Responsive Websites

Inserting an SVG inline

As SVG is merely an XML document, you can insert it directly into the HTML. For example:

<div>
    <h3>Inserted 'inline':</h3>
    <span class="inlineSVG">
        <svg id="svgInline" width="198" height="188" viewBox="0 0 198 188" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
        <title>Star 1</title>
            <g class="star_Wrapper" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd">
                <path id="star_Path" stroke="#979797" stroke-width="3" fill="#F8E81C" d="M99 154l-58.78 30.902 11.227-65.45L3.894 73.097l65.717-9.55L99 4l29.39 59.55 65.716 9.548-47.553 46.353 11.226 65.452z" />
            </g>
        </svg>
    </span>
</div>

There is no special wrapping element needed, you literally just insert the SVG markup inside the HTML markup. It's also worth knowing that ...