Here is an illustration of the problem (tested in Firefox and Chrome):
Try adding height:100px
to div
and using a height="100%"
on svg
:
<div style="background-color:red;height:100px">
<svg height="100%" width="100" style="background-color:blue;"></svg>
</div>
Change your style to
style="background-color: red; line-height: 0;"
simply add height to main div element
<div style="background-color: red;height:100px"><svg height="100px" width="100" style="background-color: blue;"></svg></div>
You need display: block;
on your svg
.
<svg style="display: block;"></svg>
This is because inline-block elements (like <svg>
and <img>
) sit on the text baseline. The extra space you are seeing is the space left to accommodate character descenders (the tail on 'y', 'g' etc).
You can also use vertical-align:top
if you need to keep it inline
or inline-block
svg
is an inline
element. inline
elements leave white-space.
Solution:
Add display:block
to svg
, or make height of parent div same as svg
.
DEMO here.
Change the display
property of the svg to be block
.