Chapter 8. Styles and Cascading Style Sheets

In This Chapter

  • Styles: Inline and Embedded

  • External Style Sheets

  • CSS Properties

Throughout this book, the style attribute has been used to control various visual aspects of our SVG drawings, such as color, filters, or font size.

As an illustration, look at the code in Example 8-1.

Example 8-1. 
<circle cx="10" cy="10" r="20" style="fill:red;
stroke:orange; stroke-width:2"/>

This creates a <circle> element, filled with red and outlined in orange. It also could have been written with each visual aspect coded separately as an attribute of the <circle> element:

<circle cx="50" cy="50" r="20" fill="red"
stroke="orange" stroke-width="2"/>

Both render the same image. So why use the style attribute?

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