<switch>
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 <switch>
SVG element evaluates any requiredFeatures
, requiredExtensions
and systemLanguage
attributes on its direct child elements in order, and then renders the first child where these attributes evaluate to true.
Other direct children will be bypassed and therefore not rendered. If a child element is a container element, like <g>
, then its subtree is also processed/rendered or bypassed/not rendered.
Note:
The display
and visibility
properties have no effect on <switch>
element processing. In particular, setting display:none
on a child has no effect on the true/false testing for <switch>
processing.
Usage context
Categories | Container element |
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Permitted content | Any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements Shape elements <a> , <foreignObject> , <g> , <image> , <svg> , <switch> , <text> , <use> |
DOM Interface
This element implements the SVGSwitchElement
interface.
SVG <switch> example
This example demonstrates showing different text content depending on the browser's language settings. The switch
element will display the first of its child elements whose systemLanguage
attribute matches the user's language, or the fallback element with no systemLanguage
attribute if none of them match.
HTML
<svg viewBox="0 -20 100 50">
<switch>
<text systemLanguage="ar">مرحبا</text>
<text systemLanguage="de,nl">Hallo!</text>
<text systemLanguage="en-us">Howdy!</text>
<text systemLanguage="en-gb">Wotcha!</text>
<text systemLanguage="en-au">G'day!</text>
<text systemLanguage="en">Hello!</text>
<text systemLanguage="es">Hola!</text>
<text systemLanguage="fr">Bonjour!</text>
<text systemLanguage="ja">こんにちは</text>
<text systemLanguage="ru">Привет!</text>
<text>☺</text>
</switch>
</svg>
Result
Specifications
Specification |
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # SwitchElement |
Browser compatibility
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