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This article doesn't address sprite vs non sprite. For most users it is much quicker to serve them up one large png with all the icons as a sprite file than a bunch of individual SVG files.

Can you use a single SVG sprite file that contains all of your SVG images for a single connection/download?

Is there a tutorial for this?

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It is possible to do this, but there's tricks of setting font-size and background-size involved to get the background sprite image to scale correctly.

I got this info from somewhere in The Googles, so the information is out there.

I haven't yet tried this on older browsers, so it may need extra help when I decided what browsers my app will support

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