Placing the SVG output directly inline with the page code I am able to simply modify fill colors with CSS like so:
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Now you can achieve this on the client side like this:
var green = '3CB54A';
var red = 'ED1F24';
var svg = '<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" width="320px" height="100px" viewBox="0 0 320 100" enable-background="new 0 0 320 100" xml:space="preserve"> <polygon class="mystar" fill="#'+green+'" points="134.973,14.204 143.295,31.066 161.903,33.77 148.438,46.896 151.617,65.43 134.973,56.679 118.329,65.43 121.507,46.896 108.042,33.77 126.65,31.066 "/><circle class="mycircle" fill="#'+red+'" cx="202.028" cy="58.342" r="12.26"/></svg>';
var encoded = window.btoa(svg);
document.body.style.background = "url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,"+encoded+")";
Fiddle here!
One way to do this is to serve your svg from some server side mechanism. Simply create a resource server side that outputs your svg according to GET parameters, and you serve it on a certain url.
Then you just use that url in your css.
Because as a background img, it isn't part of the DOM and you can't manipulate it. Another possibility would be to use it regularly, embed it in a page in a normal way, but position it absolutely, make it full width & height of a page and then use z-index css property to put it behind all the other DOM elements on a page.
for monochrome background you could use a svg with a mask, where the background color should be displayed
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" focusable="false" style="pointer-events: none; display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%;" >
<defs>
<mask id="Mask">
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="#fff" />
<polyline stroke-width="2.5" stroke="black" stroke-linecap="square" fill="none" transform="translate(10.373882, 8.762969) rotate(-315.000000) translate(-10.373882, -8.762969) " points="7.99893906 13.9878427 12.7488243 13.9878427 12.7488243 3.53809523"></polyline>
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="20" height="20" fill="white" mask="url(#Mask)" />
</svg>
and than use this css
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
background-size: contain;
background-image: url(your/path/to.svg);
background-color: var(--color);
You can create your own SCSS function for this. Adding the following to your config.rb file.
require 'sass'
require 'cgi'
module Sass::Script::Functions
def inline_svg_image(path, fill)
real_path = File.join(Compass.configuration.images_path, path.value)
svg = data(real_path)
svg.gsub! '{color}', fill.value
encoded_svg = CGI::escape(svg).gsub('+', '%20')
data_url = "url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8," + encoded_svg + "')"
Sass::Script::String.new(data_url)
end
private
def data(real_path)
if File.readable?(real_path)
File.open(real_path, "rb") {|io| io.read}
else
raise Compass::Error, "File not found or cannot be read: #{real_path}"
end
end
end
Then you can use it in your CSS:
.icon {
background-image: inline-svg-image('icons/icon.svg', '#555');
}
You will need to edit your SVG files and replace any fill attributes in the markup with fill="{color}"
The icon path is always relative to your images_dir parameter in the same config.rb file.
Similar to some of the other solutions, but this is pretty clean and keeps your SCSS files tidy!
A lot of IFs, but if your pre base64 encoded SVG starts:
<svg fill="#000000
Then the base64 encoded string will start:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIjMDAwMDAw
if the pre-encoded string starts:
<svg fill="#bfa76e
then this encodes to:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIjYmZhNzZl
Both encoded strings start the same:
PHN2ZyBmaWxsPSIj
The quirk of base64 encoding is every 3 input characters become 4 output characters. With the SVG starting like this then the 6-character hex fill color starts exactly on an encoding block 'boundary'. Therefore you can easily do a cross-browser JS replace:
output = input.replace(/MDAwMDAw/, "YmZhNzZl");
But tnt-rox answer above is the way to go moving forward.
It's possible with Sass! The only thing you have to do is to url-encode your svg code. And this is possible with a helper function in Sass. I've made a codepen for this. Look at this:
http://codepen.io/philippkuehn/pen/zGEjxB
// choose a color
$icon-color: #F84830;
// functions to urlencode the svg string
@function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') {
$index: str-index($string, $search);
@if $index {
@return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
}
@return $string;
}
@function url-encode($string) {
$map: (
"%": "%25",
"<": "%3C",
">": "%3E",
" ": "%20",
"!": "%21",
"*": "%2A",
"'": "%27",
'"': "%22",
"(": "%28",
")": "%29",
";": "%3B",
":": "%3A",
"@": "%40",
"&": "%26",
"=": "%3D",
"+": "%2B",
"$": "%24",
",": "%2C",
"/": "%2F",
"?": "%3F",
"#": "%23",
"[": "%5B",
"]": "%5D"
);
$new: $string;
@each $search, $replace in $map {
$new: str-replace($new, $search, $replace);
}
@return $new;
}
@function inline-svg($string) {
@return url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#{url-encode($string)}');
}
// icon styles
// note the fill="' + $icon-color + '"
.icon {
display: inline-block;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
background: inline-svg('<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
viewBox="0 0 30 30" enable-background="new 0 0 30 30" xml:space="preserve">
<path fill="' + $icon-color + '" d="M18.7,10.1c-0.6,0.7-1,1.6-0.9,2.6c0,0.7-0.6,0.8-0.9,0.3c-1.1-2.1-0.4-5.1,0.7-7.2c0.2-0.4,0-0.8-0.5-0.7
c-5.8,0.8-9,6.4-6.4,12c0.1,0.3-0.2,0.6-0.5,0.5c-0.6-0.3-1.1-0.7-1.6-1.3c-0.2-0.3-0.4-0.5-0.6-0.8c-0.2-0.4-0.7-0.3-0.8,0.3
c-0.5,2.5,0.3,5.3,2.1,7.1c4.4,4.5,13.9,1.7,13.4-5.1c-0.2-2.9-3.2-4.2-3.3-7.1C19.6,10,19.1,9.6,18.7,10.1z"/>
</svg>');
}