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Support external SVG resources for 'clip-path', 'fill', 'stroke' and 'marker-*' properties

Category

Graphics

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 131)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Allow external references for clip paths, markers, and paint servers (for the 'fill' and 'stroke' properties). For example, clip-path: url("resources.svg#myPath").

Motivation

This feature allows easily sharing SVG paint servers, clip paths and markers between different documents, and, for example, having a library of such resources.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/linking.html#URLReference
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping — Has been shipping for a long time. No attempt was made to dig up the ancient scrolls containing the relevant release notes.
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Strongly positive — Has 123 stars/+1s when this is being written.
• Tracking bug: https://issues.chromium.org/40134477

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