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Jason Van Vuren
Jason Van Vuren

Reputation: 1551

Chrome not rendering SVG referenced via <img> element

I am having issues with google chrome not rendering svg with an img element. This happens when refreshing the page and initial page load. I can get the image to show up by "Inspecting Element" then right clicking the svg file and opening the svg file in a new tab. The svg image will then be rendered on the original page.

<img src="../images/Aged-Brass.svg">

Totally at loss here as to what the issue is. The svg image renders fine in IE9 and FF just not in Chrome or Safari.

I have my MIME types set as well. (image/svg+xml)

EDIT: Here is a simple html page that I built to help illustrate my issue.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>SVG Test</title>

    <style>
        #BackgroundImage{
            background: url('../images/Aged-Brass.svg') no-repeat scroll left top;
            width: 400px;
            height: 600px;
        }

        #image_element {
            width: 400px;
            height: 600px;
            margin: 0px;
            padding: 0px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="image_element">
        <img src="../images/Aged-Brass.svg">
    </div>
    <div id="BackgroundImage"></div>
</body>
</html>

As you can see I am trying to use an svg file in both an img element and in css as a background image. Neither work on the initial page load in chrome or safari. When I inspect element right click svg or click link to svg load in another window the svg file will render in original tab.

Upvotes: 149

Views: 310691

Answers (27)

Jay Supeda
Jay Supeda

Reputation: 989

Just replace <img> tag to <object> tag for SVG image.

<object data="assets/twitter-wrap.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></object>

Upvotes: 6

user17189239_301
user17189239_301

Reputation: 1

In my case it was not loading svg due to image tag's id containing _ (underscore) in it so I removed that from <image id="image0_1166:0000"> to <image id="image0"> and it worked. And don't forget to remove the same here <use xlink:href="#image0">

Upvotes: 0

GMCB
GMCB

Reputation: 337

I had a similar issue I think trying to set Sharepoint Icon to SVG and the file did not load properly (while Png did).

See thread: file-format-can-an-svg-file-be-used-as-a-site-icon-in-sharepoint-online

The reason for the issue is that the height and width flags are not set in the tag.

For instance, setting this works

I was able to fix the issue by:

  1. Open SVG in a text editor (e.g. Notepad)
  2. Include in the first SVG header code Width="80" Height="80" (perhaps can play with optimizing the size)
  3. Save file and upload. IT WORKS!

So the first tag of my SVG looks like this

<svg height="80" width="80" id="Layer_1" data-name="Layer 1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 114.60458 114.60458">

Upvotes: 2

Shakir Muhammed
Shakir Muhammed

Reputation: 395

I tried most of the solutions above, but didn't worked for me. I used a svg sanitizr https://svg.enshrined.co.uk/ which worked.

Upvotes: 1

Tom Links
Tom Links

Reputation: 166

I had this problem when i exported images from figma. Check source code of svg, if you have colon : in ids like this: id="paint1_linear_23:318" it'll make you the problems with rendering in chrome.

Just remove all colons in ids.

Don't forget make the same with referring to this ids like this: fill="url(#paint1_linear_23:318)".

Upvotes: 10

Alexander_Bratskov
Alexander_Bratskov

Reputation: 71

I had the same problem. This problem was solved when I checked the file type that was accepted and set in headers "Content-Type", "image/svg+xml":

response.setHeader("Content-Type", "image/svg+xml");

Upvotes: 7

Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck

Reputation: 394

Lighttpd

My problem was that was missing a mime handler for svg files in lighttpd configuration file. Adding these to your lighttpd.conf could solve your problem:

mimetype.assign             = (
  ".pdf"          =>      "application/pdf",
  ".sig"          =>      "application/pgp-signature",
  ".spl"          =>      "application/futuresplash",
  ".class"        =>      "application/octet-stream",
  ".ps"           =>      "application/postscript",
  ".torrent"      =>      "application/x-bittorrent",
  ".dvi"          =>      "application/x-dvi",
  ".gz"           =>      "application/x-gzip",
  ".pac"          =>      "application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig",
  ".swf"          =>      "application/x-shockwave-flash",
  ".tar.gz"       =>      "application/x-tgz",
  ".tgz"          =>      "application/x-tgz",
  ".tar"          =>      "application/x-tar",
  ".zip"          =>      "application/zip",
  ".mp3"          =>      "audio/mpeg",
  ".m3u"          =>      "audio/x-mpegurl",
  ".wma"          =>      "audio/x-ms-wma",
  ".wax"          =>      "audio/x-ms-wax",
  ".ogg"          =>      "application/ogg",
  ".wav"          =>      "audio/x-wav",
  ".gif"          =>      "image/gif",
  ".jpg"          =>      "image/jpeg",
  ".jpeg"         =>      "image/jpeg",
  ".png"          =>      "image/png",
  ".svg"          =>      "image/svg+xml",
  ".xbm"          =>      "image/x-xbitmap",
  ".xpm"          =>      "image/x-xpixmap",
  ".xwd"          =>      "image/x-xwindowdump",
  ".css"          =>      "text/css",
  ".html"         =>      "text/html",
  ".htm"          =>      "text/html",
  ".js"           =>      "text/javascript",
  ".asc"          =>      "text/plain",
  ".c"            =>      "text/plain",
  ".cpp"          =>      "text/plain",
  ".log"          =>      "text/plain",
  ".conf"         =>      "text/plain",
  ".text"         =>      "text/plain",
  ".txt"          =>      "text/plain",
  ".spec"         =>      "text/plain",
  ".dtd"          =>      "text/xml",
  ".xml"          =>      "text/xml",
  ".mpeg"         =>      "video/mpeg",
  ".mpg"          =>      "video/mpeg",
  ".mov"          =>      "video/quicktime",
  ".qt"           =>      "video/quicktime",
  ".avi"          =>      "video/x-msvideo",
  ".asf"          =>      "video/x-ms-asf",
  ".asx"          =>      "video/x-ms-asf",
  ".wmv"          =>      "video/x-ms-wmv",
  ".bz2"          =>      "application/x-bzip",
  ".tbz"          =>      "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar",
  ".tar.bz2"      =>      "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar",
  ".odt"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text", 
  ".ods"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet", 
  ".odp"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation", 
  ".odg"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics", 
  ".odc"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.chart", 
  ".odf"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula", 
  ".odi"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.image", 
  ".odm"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-master", 
  ".ott"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-template",
  ".ots"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet-template",
  ".otp"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation-template",
  ".otg"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics-template",
  ".otc"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.chart-template",
  ".otf"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula-template",
  ".oti"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.image-template",
  ".oth"          =>      "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-web",

# make the default mime type application/octet-stream.
  ""              =>      "application/octet-stream",
)

References

Alternative of AddType in lighthttpd

Upvotes: -2

psychopython
psychopython

Reputation: 61

For me setting width / height to the img worked. <asp:Image runat="server" ID="Icon" Style="max-width: 50px; max-height: 50px; position: relative;" />

Upvotes: 1

Badman Goodman
Badman Goodman

Reputation: 11

Content type in the HTTP header from the server was the problem for me. I have a node.js server, added:

if( pageName.substring(pageName.lastIndexOf('.')) == '.svg' ) {
  res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "image/svg+xml" });
}

pageName is my local variable for what is requested.

My guess is this is a common problem! Am using the current version of Chrome (Mar 2020).

Upvotes: 1

pensebien
pensebien

Reputation: 554

I make sure that I add the Style of the Image. It worked for me

style= "width:320; height:240"

Upvotes: 0

pwbred
pwbred

Reputation: 123

I was having the same issue with an SVG image included via the IMG tag. It turned out for me that Chrome didn't like there being a blank line directly at the top of the file.

I removed the blank line and my SVG immediately started rendering.

Upvotes: 0

David
David

Reputation: 6084

On problems try to open the images first with a program that is capable to read svg-images.
If that fails, then the svg-image is somehow corrupted.

I had that case and copied the svg-paths in a new svg-image and adjusted all details of the svg-tags.

I never tested the reason that it was not rendering but suppose that some invisible special signs caused the render-error. Getting sometimes files edited on Mac I had this issue in other context already.

Upvotes: 0

wilo087
wilo087

Reputation: 529

Be careful that you don't have transition css property for you svg images

I don't now why, but if you make: "transition: all ease 0.3s" for svg image on Chrome the images do not appear

e.g:

* {
   transition: all ease 0.3s
  }

Chrome do not render svg.

Remove any transition css property and try again

Upvotes: 0

user87312
user87312

Reputation: 475

I came here because I had a similar problem, the image was not being rendered. What I found out was that the content type header of my testing server wasn't correct. I fixed it by adding the following to my .htaccess file:

AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz
AddEncoding gzip svgz

Upvotes: 35

Sharif Yazdian
Sharif Yazdian

Reputation: 4718

A simple and easy way; according to https://css-tricks.com/forums/topic/svg-css-background-image-not-showing-in-chrome/ You have to open the .SVG file with a text editor (like notepad) and change 

xlink:href="data:img/png;base64,

to:

xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,

it worked for me!

Upvotes: 187

Niels Vanhorenbeeck
Niels Vanhorenbeeck

Reputation: 164

In my case this problem persisted when I created and saved the svg using Photoshop. What helped, was opening the file using Illustrator and exporting the svg afterwards.

Upvotes: 2

Andy Nguyen
Andy Nguyen

Reputation: 11

I exported my svg from Photoshop CC initially and had to manually add

version="1.1" into the <svg> tag

to get it showing on chrome.

Upvotes: 1

Madan Bhandari
Madan Bhandari

Reputation: 2184

I also got the same issue with chrome, after adding DOCTYPE it works as expected

<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">

Before

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<svg version="1.1" id="Capa_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
     width="792px" height="792px" viewBox="0 0 792 792" style="enable-background:new 0 0 792 792;" xml:space="preserve">
    <g fill="none" stroke="black" stroke-width="15">
  ......
  ......
  .......
  </g>
</svg>

After

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg version="1.1" id="Capa_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
     width="792px" height="792px" viewBox="0 0 792 792" style="enable-background:new 0 0 792 792;" xml:space="preserve">
    <g fill="none" stroke="black" stroke-width="15">
  ......
  ......
  .......
  </g>
</svg>

Upvotes: 1

Krzysztof Janiszewski
Krzysztof Janiszewski

Reputation: 3834

.svg image does not have it's initial height and width. Therefore it is not visible. You have to set it.

You can do either in-line or in css file:

In-line:

<img src="../images/Aged-Brass.svg" class="image" alt="logo" style="width: 100px; height: 50px;">

Css file:

<img src="../images/Aged-Brass.svg" class="image" alt="logo">

.image {
    width: 100px;
    height: 50px;
}

Upvotes: 12

Mike Willis
Mike Willis

Reputation: 1508

I had a similar problem and the existing answers to this either weren't applicable, or worked but we couldn't use them for other reasons. So I had to figure out what Chrome disliked about our SVGs.

In our case in turned out to be that the id attribute of the symbol tag in the SVG file had a : in it, which Chrome didn't like. Soon as I removed the : it worked fine.

Bad:

<svg
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 72 72">
    <defs>
        <symbol id="ThisIDHasAColon:AndChromeDoesNotLikeIt">
        ...
        </symbol>
    </defs>
    <use
        ....
        xlink:href="#ThisIDHasAColon:AndChromeDoesNotLikeIt"
    />
</svg>

Good:

<svg
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 72 72">
    <defs>
        <symbol id="NoMoreColon">
        ...
        </symbol>
    </defs>
    <use
        ....
        xlink:href="#NoMoreColon"
    />
</svg>

Upvotes: 15

Silas Palmer
Silas Palmer

Reputation: 2985

Adding the width attribute to the [svg] tag (by editing the svg source XML) worked for me: eg:

<!-- This didn't render -->
<svg version="1.1" baseProfile="full" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
...  
</svg>

<!-- This did -->
<svg version="1.1" baseProfile="full" width="1000" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
...  
</svg>

Upvotes: 11

Yossi Ben-david
Yossi Ben-david

Reputation: 31

looks like a Chrome bug, i did something else as i almost got crazy because of this... using Chrom debugger if you change the css of the svg object it shows on the screen.

so what i did was: 1. check for screen size 2. listen to the "load" event of my SVG object 3. when the element is loaded i change its css using jQuery 4. it did the trick for me

if (jQuery(window).width() < 769) {

  jQuery('object#mysvg-logo')[0].addEventListener('load', function() {
       jQuery("object#mysvg-logo").css('width','181px');
  }, true);

}
width: 180px;
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<object id="mysvg-logo" type="image/svg+xml" data="my svg logo url here">Your browser does not support SVG</object>

Upvotes: 3

bang
bang

Reputation: 5221

The svg-tag needs the namespace attribute xmlns:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg>

Upvotes: 84

Uku
Uku

Reputation: 11

Had the same problem. If server is configured correctly and .htacces is not the answer, might want to look the svg source you are embedding. Mine were created with text editor, rendered well on Chrome&Safari inside html5 code, once embedded, nothing was visible. Added correct version, dimensions etc to the svg code and works like a charm. Also, all styles inline.

Ie

<svg version="1.1" baseProfile="full" width="24" height="24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> 
  <rect x="0" y="0" rx="2" ry="2" width="24" height="24" style="fill:#fbc800;width:24px;height:24px;"  />  
</svg>

Upvotes: 0

Essem
Essem

Reputation: 341

Use <object> instead (of course, replace each URL with your own):

.BackgroundImage {
        background: url('https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Test.svg') no-repeat scroll left top;
        width: 400px;
        height: 600px;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>SVG Test</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="ObjectTag">
        <object type="image/svg+xml" data="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Test.svg" width="400" height="600">
          Your browser does not support SVG.
        </object>
    </div>
    <div class="BackgroundImage"></div>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 18

MintWelsh
MintWelsh

Reputation: 1259

i came here because i had the same problem, when i inspect the element i can see the file, but on the site i can't (even when using localhost)

the answer to my problem was in saving the SVG file. If you saved it from illustrator make sure to click 'embed' and not 'link'. as link will just refer to your local files rather than include the data (If i understand it correctly). enter image description here

I read about it on the adobe website which has some other useful tips for exporting http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2013/09/exporting-svg-illustrator.html

This worked for me, hope it was useful.

Upvotes: 32

RestingRobot
RestingRobot

Reputation: 2978

I was able to use your sample to create a test page, and it worked just fine. My assumption is that there is something wrong with your svg file. Can you paste that here as well? Here is the sample I used. 

 <svg width="100" height="100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
   <!-- Created with SVG-edit - http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/ -->
   <g>
      <title>Layer 1</title>
      <ellipse ry="30" rx="30" id="svg_1" cy="50" cx="50" stroke-width="5" stroke="#000000" fill="#FF0000"/>
   </g>
 </svg>

Upvotes: 3

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