# Inline SVG Styling a SVG document with CSS for use on the web is most reliably achieved by [adding classes to the document and embedding](http://css-tricks.com/using-svg/) it inline in the HTML. This gem is a little Rails helper method (`inline_svg`) that reads an SVG document (via Sprockets, so works with the Rails Asset Pipeline), applies a CSS class attribute to the root of the document and then embeds it into a view. Inline SVG supports [Rails version 4.0.4](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/3/14/Rails-4-0-4-has-been-released/) and newer. Want to embed SVGs with Javascript? You might like [RemoteSvg](https://github.com/jamesmartin/remote-svg), which features similar transforms but can also load SVGs from remote URLs (like S3 etc.). ## Changelog This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://sermver.org). All notable changes are documented in the [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/jamesmartin/inline_svg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md). ## Installation Add this line to your application's Gemfile: gem 'inline_svg' And then execute: $ bundle Or install it yourself as: $ gem install inline_svg ## Usage ``` inline_svg(file_name, options={}) ``` The `file_name` can be a full path to a file, the file's basename or an `IO` object. The actual path of the file on disk is resolved using [Sprockets](://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets) (when available), a naive file finder (`/public/assets/...`) or in the case of `IO` objects the SVG data is read from the object. This means you can pre-process and fingerprint your SVG files like other Rails assets, or choose to find SVG data yourself. Here's an example of embedding an SVG document and applying a 'class' attribute in HAML: ```haml !!! 5 %html %head %title Embedded SVG Documents %body %h1 Embedded SVG Documents %div = inline_svg "some-document.svg", class: 'some-class' ``` Here's some CSS to target the SVG, resize it and turn it an attractive shade of blue: ```css .some-class { display: block; margin: 0 auto; fill: #3498db; width: 5em; height: 5em; } ``` ## Options key | description :---------------------- | :---------- `id` | set a ID attribute on the SVG `class` | set a CSS class attribute on the SVG `data` | add data attributes to the SVG (supply as a hash) `size` | set width and height attributes on the SVG
Can also be set using `height` and/or `width` attributes, which take precedence over `size`
Supplied as "{Width} * {Height}" or "{Number}", so "30px*45px" becomes `width="30px"` and `height="45px"`, and "50%" becomes `width="50%"` and `height="50%"` `title` | add a \ node inside the top level of the SVG document `desc` | add a \ node inside the top level of the SVG document `nocomment` | remove comment tags (and other unsafe/unknown tags) from svg (uses the [Loofah](https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah) gem) `preserve_aspect_ratio` | adds a `preserveAspectRatio` attribute to the SVG Example: ```ruby inline_svg("some-document.svg", id: 'some-id', class: 'some-class', data: {some: "value"}, size: '30% * 20%', title: 'Some Title', desc: 'Some description', nocomment: true, preserve_aspect_ratio: 'xMaxYMax meet') ``` ## Custom Transformations The transformation behavior of `inline_svg` can be customized by creating custom transformation classes. For example, inherit from `InlineSvg::CustomTransformation` and implement the `#transform` method: ```ruby # Sets the `custom` attribute on the root SVG element to supplied value # Remember to return a document, as this will be passed along the transformation chain class MyCustomTransform < InlineSvg::CustomTransformation def transform(doc) doc = Nokogiri::XML::Document.parse(doc.to_html) svg = doc.at_css 'svg' svg['custom'] = value doc end end ``` Add the custom configuration in an initializer (E.g. `./config/initializers/inline_svg.rb`): ```ruby # Note that the named `attribute` will be used to pass a value to your custom transform InlineSvg.configure do |config| config.add_custom_transformation(attribute: :my_custom_attribute, transform: MyCustomTransform) end ``` The custom transformation can then be called like so: ```haml %div = inline_svg "some-document.svg", my_custom_attribute: 'some value' ``` In this example, the following transformation would be applied to a SVG document: ```xml ... ``` ## Contributing 1. Fork it ( [http://github.com/jamesmartin/inline_svg/fork](http://github.com/jamesmartin/inline_svg/fork) ) 2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`) 3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`) 4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`) 5. Create new Pull Request Please write tests for anything you change, add or fix. There is a [basic Rails app](http://github.com/jamesmartin/inline_svg_test_app) that demonstrates the gem's functionality in use.