Scaling

Tips for scaling SVGs

Updated: 03 September 2023

Scaling an SVG

Scaling an inline SVG isn’t as straightforward as scaling a normal image as they don’t behave quite the same when using an img tag. There’s a lot of information on doing this on CSS Tricks

In general, the viewBox attribute needs to be set. An easy fix for SVG elements that have hardcoded height and width attributes is to first convert these to the equivalent viewBox attribute. For example, something like:

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<svg width="456" height="123">...</svg>

Would become:

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<svg viewBox="0 0 456 393">...</svg>

From here you can then treat it as a normal image tag (for the most part) and it should work fine