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Svg image element not displaying in Safari

Safari browser (I'm testing under windows) seems having problem in displaying Svg Image element.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>My first SVG</h1>

<img src="image.svg" />

</body>
</html>

And here is the content of the image.svg:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->
<svg
     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
     xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
      <rect x="50" y="50" width="100" height="100" style="fill:blue"></rect>
      <rect id="foo" x="50" y="150" width="500" height="500" style="fill:green"></rect>
     <image x="50" y="10" width="200" height="200" xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=="></image>
</svg>

Is there any solution or workaround to make this work in Safari?

Solution

  • I think there are two problems here:

    1. You haven't said anything about how large your SVG image is. As a rule, you should at least include a viewBox attribute in the <svg> tag. For example:

      <svg width="250" height="250" viewBox="0 0 250 250" ... >

    2. The other problem is that Safari isn't particularly brilliant at rendering SVGs. However, it tends to do better when you embed them with an <iframe> or <object> tag instead of using <img>. For example:

      <object data="image.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></object>

      Also, make sure your server is delivering SVG content with the correct MIME type (Content-Type: image/svg+xml), as this can cause problems too.

    So give this a try:

    HTML source:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>My first SVG</h1>
<object data="image.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></object>
</body>
</html>

    image.svg:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<svg width="250" height="250" viewBox="0 0 250 250"
     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
     xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
      <rect x="50" y="50" width="100" height="100" style="fill:blue"></rect>
      <rect id="foo" x="50" y="150" width="500" height="500" style="fill:green"></rect>
     <image x="50" y="10" width="200" height="200" xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=="></image>
</svg>