I want to know how can one actually use a .svg file In a web page?
Raphaël—JavaScript Library. Nice javascript library that is using svg, and gives you a large range of effects!
Also supports most browsers, including IE
If all you want to do is to place an SVG image such as a logo or static diagram, you just need to be careful to provide a fallback for older versions of Internet Explorer (i.e. versions 8 and earlier).
The best and simplest method I've found is to use a .png or .jpg for your fallback, placed using a normal img tag. You then wrap the img tag in an object tag, using the data attribute to place the SVG.
<object data="/path-to/your-svg-image.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
<img src="/path-to/your-fallback-image.png" />
</object>
The img fallback is only loaded and used if the browser doesn't understand SVG.
http://www.w3schools.com/svg/svg_inhtml.asp
The best example:
<embed src="rect.svg" width="300" height="100"
type="image/svg+xml"
pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/" />
I'd like to agree with the answer from "code-zoop". Although this technically doesn't answer your question, it might also be a solution: enter the relevant data straight into the HTML. Either directly as an svg element, or by using Raphaël-JS.
From w3c-schools:
SVG is all suported in In Firefox, Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari you can
<html>
<body>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
<circle cx="100" cy="50" r="40" stroke="black"
stroke-width="2" fill="red"/>
</svg>
</body>
</html>
(end of quote)
And to think even more outside the box, depending on how you want to use it, you can also put your 1-color graphics in a webfont. (see for example iconmoon.io )
See svgweb quickstart and the svgweb project homepage for something that works in all browsers including IE (requires flash plugin).
There are many ways to include an existing svg file:
<img src="your.svg"/>
<object data="your.svg"/>
<iframe src="your.svg"/>
<embed src="your.svg"/>
<div style="background:url(your.svg)">...</div>
Caspar's approach is the proper one. However, I would move the fallback to the CSS, since you probably want to apply some styles to the svg file itself...
<object data="/path-to/your-svg-image.svg" type="image/svg+xml" class="logo"> </object>
CSS
.no-svg .logo {
width: 99px;
height: 99px;
background-image: url(/path-to/your-png-image.png);
}`