<image>

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.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

The <image> SVG element includes images inside SVG documents. It can display raster image files or other SVG files.

The only image formats SVG software must support are JPEG, PNG, and other SVG files. Animated GIF behavior is undefined.

SVG files displayed with <image> are treated as an image: external resources aren't loaded, :visited styles aren't applied, and they cannot be interactive. To include dynamic SVG elements, try <use> with an external URL. To include SVG files and run scripts inside them, try <object> inside of <foreignObject>.

Note: The HTML spec defines <image> as a synonym for <img> while parsing HTML. This specific element and its behavior only apply inside SVG documents or inline SVGs.

Usage context

Categories	Graphics element, Graphics referencing element, Renderable element
Permitted content	Any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements `<animate>`, `<animateMotion>`, `<animateTransform>`, `<discard>`, `<script>`, `<set>`, `<style>`

Attributes

x: Positions the image horizontally from the origin. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: 0; Animatable: yes
y: Positions the image vertically from the origin. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: 0; Animatable: yes
width: The width the image renders at. Unlike HTML's <img>, this attribute is required. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes
height: The height the image renders at. Unlike HTML's <img>, this attribute is required. Value type: <length>|<percentage> ; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes
href: Points at a URL for the image file. Value type: <URL> ; Default value: none; Animatable: no
preserveAspectRatio: Controls how the image is scaled. Value type: (none| xMinYMin| xMidYMin| xMaxYMin| xMinYMid| xMidYMid| xMaxYMid| xMinYMax| xMidYMax| xMaxYMax) (meet|slice)? ; Default value: xMidYMid meet; Animatable: yes
crossorigin: Defines the value of the credentials flag for CORS requests. Value type: [ anonymous | use-credentials ]? ; Default value: None; Animatable: yes
decoding: Provides a hint to the browser as to whether it should perform image decoding synchronously or asynchronously. Value type: async | sync | auto ; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes
xlink:href Deprecated: Points at a URL for the image file. Value type: <URL> ; Default value: none; Animatable: no

<svg width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <image href="mdn_logo_only_color.png" height="200" width="200" />
</svg>

Result

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # ImageElement

Browser compatibility

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