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Oh? I have to look that up

Took me a while to figure it all out, but it works surprisingly well. I have been using https://icomoon.io/ to generate the sprites. They also provide a JS polyfill to support IE.

But how do you actually apply the styling? Just add a class to the <use> tag which contains “color:red;” ?

This should work as long as the SVG shapes have the "fill" and/or "stroke" set to "currentColor".

You can export your SVGs with fill="currentColor" and your color attribute onto the SVG tag or its container would work.

Since at $JOB i'm using SVG icons with more than one color, i use fill="var(--svg-color-base)" or fill="var(--svg-color-accent)" so i can precisely set which color i want, in a perfectly scope-able manner.

The greatest advantage is that you can reference externally your svg with xlink.href on top of your website: you have to make one more request, but it's cacheable. Pick your tradeoff :)

You're saying you can embed all the SVGs onto one page, and then reference them on other pages/domains by using xlink.href? I haven't heard of this?

So what you're describing is having site.com/page1 which has markup: <body> <svg id="icon-1"> ... </svg> </body>

and then on site.com/page2 having

Or something of this manner? Haven't encountered this, but sounds awesome; especially since you'd get the power of both inlining and caching the asset.

Either fill: currentColor or fill: var(--iconColor, currentColor) should do the trick. I prefer the 2nd one because it lets me change iconColor whenever I find it appropiate

You can also use Boxy SVG to create and edit SVG sprites: https://boxy-svg.com/#tour-symbols

Boxy says "15 day free trial" but there's no information about how much it costs.

Dora anyone know? I'm not going to sign up for something without knowing what I'm getting into.

Linux desktop app is free, macOS desktop app costs 9.99 USD (one-time payment), web app costs 9.99 USD / year (no cloud services) or 9.99 USD / month (with cloud services). The complete pricing table is shown in the footer area of the home page when you open it with a Chromium-based browser.

> when you open it with a Chromium-based browser

Looks like they're using the experimental CSSStyleSheet() constructor [1] to display the pricing table. Ugh.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleShe...

Someone has to push us to the future! Why wouldn't a business be happy to exclude 30% of browsers?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/construct-style-sheets-polyfil...

We are using this at GitLab: https://gitlab-org.gitlab.io/gitlab-svgs/, using svg-sprite to build the sprite file: https://www.npmjs.com/package/svg-sprite

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