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You can use an "SVG sprite" with <use>. No need to inline the SVG every time.

• tobyhinloopen 6y ago
  Oh? I have to look that up
  • DangerousPie 6y ago
    Took me a while to figure it all out, but it works surprisingly well. I have been using https://icomoon.io/ https://icomoon.io/ to generate the sprites. They also provide a JS polyfill to support IE.
    • faeyanpiraat 6y ago
      But how do you actually apply the styling? Just add a class to the <use> tag which contains “color:red;” ?
      • jarek-foksa 6y ago
        This should work as long as the SVG shapes have the "fill" and/or "stroke" set to "currentColor".
      • 8lall0 6y ago
        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 :)
        • nikkwong 6y ago
          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 <body> <svg> <use href="/page1#icon-1"> </svg> </body> 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.
      • f-word 6y ago
        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
    • jarek-foksa 6y ago
      You can also use Boxy SVG to create and edit SVG sprites: https://boxy-svg.com/#tour-symbols https://boxy-svg.com/#tour-symbols
      • reaperducer 6y ago
        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.
        • jarek-foksa 6y ago
          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.
          • jefftk 6y ago
            > 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/CSSStyleSheet https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleShe...
            • jessaustin 6y ago
              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-polyfill https://www.npmjs.com/package/construct-style-sheets-polyfil...
  • leipert 6y ago
    We are using this at GitLab: https://gitlab-org.gitlab.io/gitlab-svgs/ https://gitlab-org.gitlab.io/gitlab-svgs/, using svg-sprite to build the sprite file: https://www.npmjs.com/package/svg-sprite https://www.npmjs.com/package/svg-sprite