Content type

{{SVGRef}}

SVG makes use of a number of data types. This article lists these types along with their syntax and descriptions of what they’re used for.

Angle

<angle>
- : Angles are specified in one of two ways. When used in the value of a property in a stylesheet, an <angle> is defined as follows:
```
angle ::= number (~"deg" | ~"grad" | ~"rad")?
```
  where deg indicates degrees, grad indicates grads and rad indicates radians.
  
  For properties defined in CSS2, an angle unit identifier must be provided. For angle values in SVG-specific properties and their corresponding presentation attributes, the angle unit identifier is optional. If not provided, the angle value is assumed to be in degrees. In presentation attributes for all properties, whether defined in SVG1.1 or in CSS2, the angle identifier, if specified, must be in lower case.
  
  When angles are used in an SVG attribute, <angle> is instead defined as follows:
```
angle ::= number ("deg" | "grad" | "rad")?
```
  The unit identifiers in such <angle> values must be in lower case.
  
  In the SVG DOM, <angle> values are represented using {{domxref("SVGAngle")}} or {{domxref("SVGAnimatedAngle")}} objects.

Anything

<anything>
- : The basic type <anything> is a sequence of zero or more characters. Specifically:
```
anything ::= Char*
```
  where Char is any valid non-control Unicode character.

Clock-value

<clock-value>
- : Clock values have the same syntax as in SMIL Animation specification. The grammar for clock values is repeated here:
```
Clock-val         ::= Full-clock-val | Partial-clock-val
                      | Timecount-val
Full-clock-val    ::= Hours ":" Minutes ":" Seconds ("." Fraction)?
Partial-clock-val ::= Minutes ":" Seconds ("." Fraction)?
Timecount-val     ::= Timecount ("." Fraction)? (Metric)?
Metric            ::= "h" | "min" | "s" | "ms"
Hours             ::= DIGIT+; any positive number
Minutes           ::= 2DIGIT; range from 00 to 59
Seconds           ::= 2DIGIT; range from 00 to 59
Fraction          ::= DIGIT+
Timecount         ::= DIGIT+
2DIGIT            ::= DIGIT DIGIT
DIGIT             ::= [0-9]
```
  For Timecount values, the default metric suffix is s (for seconds). No embedded white space is allowed in clock values, although leading and trailing white space characters will be ignored.
  
  The following are examples of legal clock values:
  - Full clock values:
    - 02:30:03 = 2 hours, 30 minutes and 3 seconds
    - 50:00:10.25 = 50 hours, 10 seconds and 250 milliseconds
  - Partial clock value:
    - 02:33 = 2 minutes and 33 seconds
    - 00:10.5 = 10.5 seconds = 10 seconds and 500 milliseconds
  - Timecount values:
    - 3.2h = 3.2 hours = 3 hours and 12 minutes
    - 45min = 45 minutes
    - 30s = 30 seconds
    - 5ms = 5 milliseconds
    - 12.467 = 12 seconds and 467 milliseconds
  - Fractional values are just (base 10) floating point definitions of seconds. Thus:
    - 00.5s = 500 milliseconds
    - 00:00.005 = 5 milliseconds

Color

<color>
- : The basic type <color> is a CSS2 compatible specification for a color in the sRGB color space. <color> applies to SVG’s use of the {{SVGAttr("color")}} attribute and is a component of the definitions of attributes {{SVGAttr("fill")}} , {{SVGAttr("stroke")}} , {{SVGAttr("stop-color")}} , {{SVGAttr("flood-color")}} , and {{SVGAttr("lighting-color")}} , which also offer optional ICC-based color specifications.
  
  The definition of <color> in SVG is exactly the same as the CSS {{cssxref("color_value", "<color>")}} definition.

Coordinate

<coordinate>
- : A <coordinate> is a length in the user coordinate system that is the given distance from the origin of the user coordinate system along the relevant axis (the x-axis for X coordinates, the y-axis for Y coordinates). Its syntax is the same as that for <length>.
  
  Within the SVG DOM, a <coordinate> is represented as an {{domxref("SVGLength")}} or an {{domxref("SVGAnimatedLength")}} .

Frequency

<frequency>
- : Frequency values are used with aural properties. As defined in CSS2, a frequency value is a <number> immediately followed by a frequency unit identifier. The frequency unit identifiers are:
  - Hz: Hertz
  - kHz: kilo Hertz
  Frequency values may not be negative.

FuncIRI

<FuncIRI>
- : Functional notation for a reference. The syntax for this reference is the same as the CSS URI.

Integer

<integer>
- : An <integer> is specified as an optional sign character (+ or -) followed by one or more digits 0 to 9:
```
integer ::= [+-]? [0-9]+
```
  If the sign character is not present, the number is non-negative.
  
  Unless stated otherwise for a particular attribute or property, the range for an <integer> encompasses (at a minimum) -2147483648 to 2147483647.
  
  Within the SVG DOM, an <integer> is represented as a number or an {{domxref("SVGAnimatedInteger")}} .

IRI

<IRI>
- : An Internationalized Resource Identifier.
  
  On the Internet, resources are identified using IRIs (Internationalized Resource Identifiers). For example, an SVG file called someDrawing.svg located at http://example.com might have the following IRI:
```
http://example.com/someDrawing.svg
```
  An IRI can also address a particular element within an XML document by including an IRI fragment identifier as part of the IRI. An IRI which includes an IRI fragment identifier consists of an optional base IRI, followed by a # character, followed by the IRI fragment identifier. For example, the following IRI can be used to specify the element whose ID is Lamppost within file someDrawing.svg:
```
http://example.com/someDrawing.svg#Lamppost
```
  IRIs are used in the {{SVGAttr("href")}} attribute. Some attributes allow both IRIs and text strings as content. To disambiguate a text string from a relative IRI, the functional notation <FuncIRI> is used. This is an IRI delimited with a functional notation. Note: For historical reasons, the delimiters are url( and ), for compatibility with the CSS specifications. The FuncIRI form is used in presentation attributes.
  
  SVG makes extensive use of IRI references, both absolute and relative, to other objects. For example, to fill a rectangle with a linear gradient, you first define a {{SVGElement("linearGradient")}} element and give it an ID, as in:
```
<linearGradient xml:id="MyGradient">...</linearGradient>
```
  You then reference the linear gradient as the value of the {{SVGAttr("fill")}} attribute for the rectangle, as in the following example:
```
<rect fill="url(#MyGradient)" />
```
  SVG supports two types of IRI references:
  - local IRI references, where the IRI reference does not contain an <absoluteIRI> or <relativeIRI> and thus only contains a fragment identifier (i.e., #<elementID> or #xpointer(id<elementID>)).
  - non-local IRI references, where the IRI reference does contain an <absoluteIRI> or <relativeIRI>.
    
    For the full specification of IRI references in SVG, see SVG 1.1 (2nd Edition): IRI references.

Length

<length>
- : A length is a distance measurement, given as a number along with a unit. The SVG2 specification aligns with CSS {{cssxref("length")}} data types and units for the attribute syntax and values. A length unit identifier must be provided and the values of the length unit identifiers are case-insensitive. The syntax follows the CSS <length> syntax:
```
length ::= <number> (<absolute-length> | <relative-length>)?
```
  For SVG-specific properties defined in SVG1.1 and their corresponding presentation attributes, the unit identifiers in values are optional. If not provided, the length value represents a distance in the current user coordinate system. Length identifiers must be in lower case when used in presentation attributes for all properties whether they are defined in SVG or in CSS. This case sensitivity is relaxed in SVG2 to align with CSS.
  
  Note that the non-property <length> definition also allows a percentage (%) unit identifier. The meaning of a percentage length value depends on the attribute for which the percentage length value has been specified. Two common cases are:
  - when a percentage length value represents a percentage of the viewport width or height
  - when a percentage length value represents a percentage of the bounding box width or height on a given object.
  In the SVG DOM, <length> values are represented using {{domxref("SVGLength")}} or {{domxref("SVGAnimatedLength")}} objects.

List-of-Ts

<list-of-Ts>
- : (Where T is some type.) A list consists of a separated sequence of values. Unless explicitly described differently, lists within SVG’s XML attributes can be either comma-separated (with optional white space before or after the comma), or white space-separated.
  
  White space in lists is defined as one or more of the following consecutive characters: “space” (U+0020), “tab” (U+0009), “line feed” (U+000A), “carriage return” (U+000D), and “form-feed” (U+000C).
  
  The following is a template for an EBNF grammar describing the <list-of-Ts> syntax:
```
list-of-Ts ::= T
                | T, list-of-Ts
```
  Within the SVG DOM, values of a <list-of-Ts> type are represented by an interface specific for the particular type T. For example, a <list-of-lengths> is represented in the SVG DOM using an {{domxref("SVGLengthList")}} or {{domxref("SVGAnimatedLengthList")}} object.

Name

<name>
- : A name, which is a string where a few characters of syntactic significance are disallowed.
```
name  ::= [^,()#x20#x9#xD#xA] /* any char except ",", "(", ")" or wsp */
```

Number

<number>
- : Real numbers are specified in one of two ways. When used in a stylesheet, a <number> is defined as follows:
```
number ::= integer
            | [+-]? [0-9]* "." [0-9]+
```
  This syntax is the same as the definition in CSS (CSS2, section 4.3.1).
  
  When used in an SVG attribute, a <number> is defined differently, to allow numbers with large magnitudes to be specified more concisely:
```
number ::= integer ([Ee] integer)?
            | [+-]? [0-9]* "." [0-9]+ ([Ee] integer)?
```
  Within the SVG DOM, a <number> is represented as a float, {{domxref("SVGNumber")}} or a {{domxref("SVGAnimatedNumber")}} .

Number-optional-number

<number-optional-number>
- : A pair of <number>s, where the second <number> is optional.
```
number-optional-number ::= number
                            | number, number
```
  In the SVG DOM, a <number-optional-number> is represented using a pair of {{domxref("SVGAnimatedInteger")}} or {{domxref("SVGAnimatedNumber")}} objects.

Opacity value

<opacity-value>
- : The opacity of the color or the content the current object is filled with, as a <number>. Any values outside the range 0.0 (fully transparent) to 1.0 (fully opaque) will be clamped to this range.

Paint

<paint>
- : The values for properties {{SVGAttr("fill")}} and {{SVGAttr("stroke")}} define the type of paint to use when filling or stroking a given graphics element. The available options and syntax for <paint> are:
```
paint ::= none | <color> | <url> [none | <color>]? | context-fill | context-stroke
```
  The context-fill and context-stroke values allow for inheriting values in marker and use elements.

Percentage

<percentage>
- : Percentages are specified as a number followed by a % character:
```
percentage ::= number "%"
```
  Note that the definition of <number> depends on whether the percentage is specified in a stylesheet or in an attribute that is not also a presentation attribute.
  
  Percentage values are always relative to another value (for example, a length). Each attribute or property that allows percentages also defines the reference distance measurement to which the percentage refers.
  
  Within the SVG DOM, a <percentage> is represented using an {{domxref("SVGNumber")}} or {{domxref("SVGAnimatedNumber")}} object.

Time

<time>
- : A time value is a <number> immediately followed by a time unit identifier. The time unit identifiers are:
  - ms: milliseconds
  - s: seconds

Transform-list

<transform-list>
- : A <transform-list> is used to specify a list of coordinate system transformations. A detailed description of the possible values for a <transform-list> is given in the {{SVGAttr("transform")}} attribute definition.
  
  Within the SVG DOM, a <transform-list> value is represented using an {{domxref("SVGTransformList")}} or {{domxref("SVGAnimatedTransformList")}} object.

URL

URL
- : A Uniform Resource Locator.
  
  A URL is a sequence of {{Glossary("Unicode")}} characters, building an address to an internal or external resource.
  
  Before SVG 2, the more limited IRI content type was used instead, because the URL specification was not standardized before.

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Content type

Angle

Anything

Clock-value

Color

Coordinate

Frequency

FuncIRI

Integer

IRI

Length

List-of-Ts

Name

Number

Number-optional-number

Opacity value

Paint

Percentage

Time

Transform-list

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