lengthAdjust

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

The lengthAdjust attribute controls how the text is stretched into the length defined by the textLength attribute.

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

Example

html,
body,
svg {
  height: 100%;
}

html

<svg width="300" height="150" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <g font-face="sans-serif">
    <text x="0" y="20" textLength="300" lengthAdjust="spacing">
      Stretched using spacing only.
    </text>
    <text x="0" y="50" textLength="300" lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs">
      Stretched using spacing and glyphs.
    </text>
    <text x="0" y="80" textLength="100" lengthAdjust="spacing">
      Shrunk using spacing only.
    </text>
    <text x="0" y="110" textLength="100" lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs">
      Shrunk using spacing and glyphs.
    </text>
  </g>
</svg>

Usage notes

Value	`spacing` \| `spacingAndGlyphs`
Default value	`spacing`
Animatable	Yes

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # TextElementLengthAdjustAttribute

Browser compatibility

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